Bullying and harassment have been confirmed at universities in the United Kingdom, by those who advocate for the leftist gender ideologies prevalent in today’s academia.
A report from the Christian Institute said university staff members and students both have suffered “extreme personal consequences” for declining to adopt the “wokeness” agenda of leftists.
A new report commissioned by the United Kingdom government looked at 130 responses to a call for evidence held on University College London’s website, and it revealed that more than 58% of respondents reported “self-censorship and chilling effects.”
Right behind on the list of impacts was “bullying, harassment and ostracism,” at 42%.
“The new report cites recent investigations into bullying and harassment in academia. The report stated that several respondents to the Khan Review ‘suffered extreme personal consequences, both to their careers and to their physical and mental health, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and extensive sick leave as a result of bullying, harassment and discrimination,” the institute explained.
“The failure to adequately support and defend these individuals is a stain on the higher education sector,” the report said.
In reference to Khan, it emphasized: “This is not a question of ‘both sides’ behaving badly in a ‘toxic debate,’ as we have now documented evidence of gender-critical staff or students advocating for or engaging in behaviors such as attempts to de-platform academics with opposing views.”
The report finds that universities need to prioritize “the pursuit of truth as the core principle underlying university education and research” and then “help students to develop the ability to deal with robust disagreement as an opportunity for intellectual growth rather than a threat.”
One of the investigators, Alice Sullivan, charged that, “Sex is a fundamental category in all research concerning humans, from biology to sociology.” But, she explained, “When certain facts become unspeakable, it doesn’t just hurt individuals, it compromises the integrity of scholarship. This weakens public trust in universities, science and scholarship, and ultimately undermines our democracy.”
The government said in its response that it would work to promote and protect free speech on campus. It has new requirements scheduled to take effect in just a few weeks.
Just months ago, regulators fined Sussex University more than half a million British pounds for the schools’ transgender activism that caused a “chilling effect’ on lawful views of biological reality.