The level of academic discourse in Canadian universities is an absolute disgrace yet even worse, that brand of discourse is now seeping into our political systems. In Bill C-16 our government has, in effect, predetermined a scientific conclusion for a  scientific field of study that at worst can be described as junk science but at its best-and as its frequently described- can only be described as in its infancy. Academia has never yet been so extreme that it requires federal legislation to protect the findings it comes out with but here we are and for any scientific researcher employed or funded by our federal government and some provinces, disputing the theories universities are putting out on gender and transgender issues, they are risking their careers and risk becoming criminalized as human rights violators. Despite what fundamentally sound, scientifically objective reasoning might say.