How a psychotherapist who has backed transgender rights for years was plunged into a Kafkaesque nightmare after asking if young people changing sex might later regret it
by Rebecca Hardy, Mailonline:
No one could accuse psychotherapist James Caspian of being a bigot or prejudiced against transgender people. His LGBT — that’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender — credentials are impeccable.
For this slight, measured, gay man is not only a trustee of the transgender charity The Beaumont Trust, but he has dedicated more than a decade of his life to counselling hundreds of patients who wish to change their gender.
He publishes academic papers on the subject, contributes to books and addresses some of the finest minds in the health professions at conferences around the world — and has done extensive work training fellow psychotherapists on transgender awareness.
If there was ever an expert in this field, James, 58, is it. But lately James has had a gutful of the increasingly frustrating politics surrounding the trans lobby, after a study he wanted to carry out into transgender people was blocked by Bath Spa University for being ‘politically incorrect’.
The nature of his research? To ask questions about the increasing numbers of people who were changing gender and subsequently regretting it.
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