Over four dozen scholars in the U.K. are warning that academic and critical analysis of gender identity issues and transgenderism is being suppressed and censored.
Fifty-four academics who “represent a newly formed network of over 100 academics,” most of whom are employed at universities across the U.K., published a letter in The Guardian on Tuesday to voice their concerns about governmental reforms being considered by the U.K. government to allow people to legally self-identify as members of the opposite sex.
In doing so, the scholars — ranging in expertise from sociology, philosophy, medicine and social work to political science, law, economics and more — aired their complaints about how they have faced an unusual amount of opposition for what they consider to be normal critical analysis of scientific and political assertions.
“We are also concerned about the suppression of proper academic analysis and discussion of the social phenomenon of transgenderism, and its multiple causes and effects,” the scholars wrote in the letter. “Members of our group have experienced campus protests, calls for dismissal in the press, harassment, foiled plots to bring about dismissal, no-platforming, and attempts to censor academic research and publications.”
According to the scholars, the opposition they have faced is “out of line with the ordinary reception of critical ideas in the academy.” The scholars assert that “it is normally accepted that disagreement is reasonable and even productive.”
The group also condemned the influence that LGBT political organizations are…
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