The Ouroboros Has Arrived

September 26, 2017 Longrider Civil Liberties, General News, misanthropy, Political 2

Actually, given the current state of affairs, the ouroboros would probably be somewhat bemused. This story perhaps being a high tide (until the next one).

A university has blocked research into gender reassignment reversal surgery because it is “politically incorrect”, a researcher has claimed.

Psychotherapist James Caspian said his study was refused by Bath Spa University which told him “it’s better not to offend people”.

As I’ve mentioned here before, I’m on the trans spectrum. I have no plans to transition because, frankly, GRS is little more than expensive plastic surgery and I have no desire to be sterilised. However, for others it is the final act of transition. Fine, if that is what they need to be able to live with themselves. There are those who having made this move regret it – the anxiety that goes with feeling wrong inside one’s own body doesn’t go away for them. And sometimes they retransition. It’s an awful lot of unnecessary surgery, frankly.

Anyway, why not look into it?

Mr Caspian planned to conduct a master’s degree in counselling and psychotherapy at the university.

He said as part of that he was interested in the subject of gender reassignment reversal because “recent studies show that as many as 20% of people who have had gender reassignment have regretted their decision”.

He said people he initially spoke to were “too traumatised” to speak about their experiences which he said convinced him the research was even more important.

Well, that sounds reasonable enough…

He submitted a proposal to the university to conduct various case studies into the issue, but it was refused.

He was told “it might cause criticism on social media” and that “engaging in a potentially politically incorrect piece of research carries a risk to the university.”

Welcome to the modern world where people are afraid of social media. Indeed, the way to deal with negative social media comments is either to ignore them completely or robustly tell the whiners where they can get off. It is, after all, merely whining on the internet.

Mr Caspian said he was “astonished” by the response and added: “I think that a university exists to encourage discussion, research, dissent even, to challenge ideas that are out of date or not particularly useful”.

Astonished? Mr Caspain where have you been all this time? Thou shalt not commit heresy. Get with the programme.

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  2. Sarah Vine nails it:

    A disturbing tale of our politically correct times

    The tale of James Caspian, a psychotherapist with a special interest in gender disorders, is a story for our times.

    Following a conversation with a surgeon friend who told him that in one year, he had performed two reverse gender reassignment operations on patients who had changed their minds, he decided the phenomenon warranted some research.

    So he enrolled on a Masters course at Bath Spa University, intending to write his thesis on the subject of ‘detransition’.

    A fascinating topic, you might have thought, given the sharp rise in cases of gender dysphoria.

    But no. The university referred him to its ethics committee, who rejected his topic on the grounds it was too controversial. Specifically, ‘engaging in a potentially “politically incorrect” piece of research carries a risk to the university’.

    I suppose we just have to be grateful that the Bath Spa ethics committee wasn’t around when Darwin was exploring his theory of evolution, or Galileo the solar system. Otherwise, we’d still be living in the Dark Ages.

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