(Envato Elements)
James Caspian, a psychotherapist who was stopped from studying “trans regret” as part of his master’s degree is taking his case to the European Court of Human Rights
Caspian wanted to write his thesis on “trans regret” and “detransition” as part of his MA degree in counselling and psychotherapy at Bath Spa University.
He said it was rejected by the university’s ethics committee in 2017 because it could be deemed “politically incorrect”, and because “attacks on social media may not be confined to the researcher but may involve the university”.
Bath Spa University told
PinkNews that James Caspian’s research proposal was not refused because of the subject matter, but “rather because of his proposed methodological approach”.