{"id":1923654,"date":"2023-05-03T18:13:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T22:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-college-blocks-trans-sports-research-proposal-after-mention-of-the-word-male\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T18:16:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T22:16:08","slug":"uk-college-blocks-trans-sports-research-proposal-after-mention-of-the-word-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-college-blocks-trans-sports-research-proposal-after-mention-of-the-word-male\/","title":{"rendered":"UK college rejects trans sports research proposal due to use of the word &#8220;male.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuk-college-blocks-trans-sports-research-proposal-after-mention-of-the-word-male%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1923654&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>UK University Rejects Research Proposal on Transgender Athletes Due to Use of &#8220;Male&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>A university in the United Kingdom has rejected a research proposal on transgender athletes in sports after the use of the word &#8220;male.&#8221; Professor John Armstrong at Kings College London submitted a proposal to survey athletes about their views on transgender athletes in sports, but the ethics committee rejected the proposal due to the presence of the words &#8220;male&#8221; and &#8220;female.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Activist Interference in Research<\/h3>\n<p>Armstrong argued that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-college-blocks-trans-sports-research-proposal-after-mention-of-the-word-male\/\" title=\"UK college rejects trans sports research proposal due to use of the word \"male.\"\">ethics board essentially dictated<\/a> that he could not acknowledge biological sex in the slightest. &#8220;By preventing me from using the word &#8216;male,&#8217; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-clears-the-way-to-allow-research-on-fetal-tissue-from-abortions\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Clears The Way To Allow Research On Fetal Tissue From Abortions\">ethics review<\/a> was in effect preventing me from using the concept of sex at all,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Activist interference in what can be researched erodes the integrity of science\u2026 Political policing of research introduces a new ethical-review bias.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Commitment to Quality Research<\/h3>\n<p>Kings College London later released a statement saying that the school is committed to &#8220;research&#8221; of the highest quality. &#8220;While we can&#8217;t comment on individual research applications, we are strongly committed to ensuring that the research carried out by our staff and students is consistently of the highest quality and to the most rigorous standards,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;This is important to instill confidence in academic communities, funding bodies, and crucially the public that the data, findings, and results produced by our researchers are sound and trustworthy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>University of Pennsylvania Swimmer Lia Thomas<\/h3>\n<p>University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/entire-georgetown-mens-basketball-team-coach-kneel-for-national-anthem\/\" title=\"Entire Georgetown Men\u2019s Basketball Team, Coach Kneel For National Anthem\">made headlines recently<\/a> for her success in swimming competitions. She is a transgender woman who has been competing in women&#8217;s events. Her success has sparked debate about transgender athletes in sports.<\/p>\n<h3>Takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A UK university rejected a research proposal on transgender athletes due to the use of the word &#8220;male.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Activists interfering in research can erode the integrity of science.<\/li>\n<li>Kings College London is committed to ensuring that research is of the highest quality.<\/li>\n<li>Transgender athlete Lia Thomas has sparked debate about transgender athletes in sports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A university in the United Kingdom rejected a research proposal on transgender athletes in sports after it mentioned the word \u201cmale.\u201d Professor John Armstrong at Kings College London said they had been asked to survey athletes about their views on transgenders in sports, but the ethics committee rejected the proposal due to the words \u201cmale\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1923655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4023,7593,5210,5009,3847,7037,9147],"class_list":["post-1923654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-college","tag-male","tag-proposal","tag-rejects","tag-sports","tag-trans","tag-word"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}