Why it matters that James Caspian isn’t allowed to study people who regret gender transition
from Christian Concern:
This week, the High Court upheld the decision made by Bath Spa University to block psychotherapist James Caspian’s research into transgender regret, saying that the case had been brought too late. Carys Moseley looks at why the Court’s judgment matters and asks, what is the point of having departments of counselling and therapy in universities if you aren’t able to research the issues that clients are raising? For if you can’t research it in a university, then where can you?
This week, the hearing of James Caspian was heard at the Royal Courts of Justice. He was prevented by Bath Spa University from carrying out a project researching people who regret gender reassignment. This was despite having already been enrolled on the university’s MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
The hearing was an application for a judicial review of the university’s decision and Mr Caspian was represented by Paul Diamond.
Gender transition therapist wanting to study regret
Mr Caspian is a qualified psychotherapist who has worked with patients who identify as transgendered, and he has in the past been a trustee of the Beaumont Trust, the oldest charity to work with transvestites and transgender people in the UK.
All this makes James Caspian’s case extremely significant, for having helped many people through the path of gender reassignment away from living as members of their biological sex, he later became aware that many regretted this. It is extremely rare for a therapist who has been active in supporting people through gender reassignment to be so open about this.
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