The transgender taboo is a threat to academic freedom

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The transgender taboo is a threat to academic freedom

By Ed West Science Last updated: January 24th, 2012

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100131972/the-transgender-taboo-is-a-threat-to-academic-freedom/

The Sunday Times over the weekend had a feature about six children suffering from Gender Identity Disorder who are being given drugs to delay the onset of puberty, giving them more time to decide whether they wish to change sex later in life.

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Yet that hasn't stopped the growth of a political orthodoxy that boys and girls are sometimes born into the wrong bodies – their gender does not match their physical sex – and that this is best fixed by hormone treatment and/or surgery later in life; and that anyone who finds this uncomfortable suffers themselves from a psychological condition, apparently, called transphobia.