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>>Academics are under heavy political pressure from activists
>Delusional.

No

https://retractionwatch.com/2020/04/30/journal-retracts-paper-on-gender-dysphoria-after-900-critics-petition/

We all know science is biased but it's interesting to see it blatantly confirmed.

>A journal has retracted a controversial paper that questioned what it called the “existing dogma” about gender.

>The article, “A new theory of gender dysphoria incorporating the distress, social behavioral, and body-ownership networks,” was written by Stephen Gliske, a physicist-turned-neuroscientist at the University of Michigan.

>Gliske’s paper, which received a modest amount of media attention, argued for what he calls a “multisense theory” of gender identity. As he told Newsweek last December:

>This new multisense theory of gender dysphoria connects the experience of gender dysphoria with the function of the associated brain regions and networks.

>This paradigm shift—from fixed anatomical sizes to dynamic activity in brain networks—means that there may be many more options to decrease the distress experienced with gender dysphoria than we have ever realized.

>Gliske’s article was published December 2. Not long after, according to Gliske, the journal told him it would be correcting his article, which it did with the following notice on December 12: