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Psychotherapist appeals to European Court after UK university cancels his PhD on transgender regret

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A researcher whose university canceled his study of sex-change regret has taken his case to the European Court of Human Rights.  James Caspian, 61, a psychotherapist who had counseled transgender people for a decade, was prevented by England’s Bath Spa University from pursuing a project it had initially accepted: a study entitled “An examination of the experience of people who have undergone Reverse Gender Reassignment Surgery.” A former teacher training college, Bath Spa was not permitted to grant university degrees until 1992.  Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, Caspian first challenged the Bath Spa University’s decision in the British courts . Now he is taking his case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).  “I have been faced with no alternative but to take this case to Europe,” Caspian stated in a press release. “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 b

Gay group demands political party boot Christian pol or be banned from Pride parade

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One of the perverse things about today’s progressives is not simply that they are so often wrong, but that they often mean precisely the opposite of what they are saying but do not realize it. The promoters of “diversity” and “tolerance,” for example, make the witch-burners look positively relaxed as they ruthlessly hunt heretics and hound them from their jobs. Diversity is acceptable only within the narrowest of lanes — you can, for example, support the LGBTQIA2S agenda, but nobody will get too fussed if you just say you support the LGBTQ agenda, because it is presumed that you mean the same thing. Any indication that you do not support whatever the newest thing is, however, will not be tolerated. The latest would-be victim of the heresy-hunters is British Columbian politician Laurie Throness, the MLA for the constituency of Chilliwack-Kent. Throness and several other MLAs, as it turns out, had run ads in a Christian publication that, to the horror of Chilliwack Progress editor