Bath Spa University ‘blocks transgender research’

BBC News 25 September 2017
Family First Comment: Astonishing – but indicative of the inability to critique gender ideology
“The fundamental reason given was that it might cause criticism of the research on social media and criticism of the research would be criticism of the university and they also added it was better not to offend people,” he said. According to the Times, it was rejected because “engaging in a potentially politically incorrect piece of research carries a risk to the university”.
Better not to offend people?
Best to heal people from gender dysphoria!! 
James Caspian wanted to write a thesis on “detransition” as part of his master’s degree in counselling and psychotherapy at Bath Spa University.
He said it was rejected by the university’s ethics committee because it could be “politically incorrect”.
The university said it couldn’t comment until after an internal investigation.
Mr Caspian, a counsellor who specialises in therapy for transgender people, told Radio 4: “I was astonished at that decision.
“I think that a university exists to encourage discussion, research – dissent even, challenging perhaps ideas that are out of date or not particularly useful.”
He says he wanted to study people who had swapped gender and then changed their minds after coming across evidence of a growing number of people who regretted having the surgery and finding no research had been done into the subject.
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