Veto on detransition research
From the new Glinner update week in the war on women –
THE TELEGRAPH: The psychotherapist blocked from researching detransition is taking his case to the European Court of Human Rights.
James Caspian is a psychotherapist who has specialised in counselling trans people for over 10 years. He has worked with numerous de-transitioners and had planned to conduct an academic study into this massively under-researched area. However, Bath Spa University rejected Caspian’s MA proposal. He was told, “Attacks on social media may not be confined to the researcher but may involve the university.”
And the university is too fragile to cope with “attacks on social media”? So much too fragile that it vetoes research on something one would think is of considerable importance to the well-being of quite a few people?
Caspian is now taking his case to the European Court of Human Rights. He told The Telegraph why he is pursuing this issue:
“Too much is at stake for academic freedom and for hundreds, if not thousands, of young people who are saying that they are being harmed and often silenced by a rigid view that has become a kind of transgender ideology and permits no discussion.
My preliminary research had revealed a growing controversial schism in transgender politics and inpatient experiences which greatly concerned me and confirmed the need for this research. Some of the people I spoke to said they were too traumatised to speak about their experiences, which proved it was even more important to research the issue, not less.
Bath Spa University should feel embarrassed.
I don’t know about this school, but if it was in the US, I would definitely put it down to the commercialization of education. Now that education is a commodity, and we are all vying for ‘clients’, we are discouraged – in many cases, forbidden – to say anything that might harm the feelings of the ‘consumer’.
An associate of mine made a good suggestion recently: the alphabet soup should be reformed: “LBTQX,” with the X standing for ex-trans. The desisted and detransitioned need support too, and probably find less support from the queer community than anybody else under that umbrella.
‘Attacks on social media’ got the U.S. Capitol stormed. Gamergate=’cancel culture.’