Hyper-politicized academia

Just how political has the academic sector become?

Just read this article:

"Conference Cancels Gender Discussion Over Harm to LGBTQ Community"

https://www.newsweek.com/conference-cancels-gender-discussion-over-harm-lgbtq-community-1830750

An excerpt from the article (emphasis added):

<blockquote>"The session was rejected because it relied on assumptions that run contrary to <b>the settled science</b> in our discipline, 

framed in ways that do harm to vulnerable members of our community," 

the press release said. 

"It commits one of the cardinal sins of scholarship—

it assumes the truth of the proposition that it sets out to prove, 

namely, that sex and gender are simplistically binary, 

and that this is a fact with meaningful implications for the discipline."</blockquote>

In general, science allows its assumptions and reasoning to be challenged, and opened opened up for debate.

It is the AAA that is denying the possibility of debate.

How totalitarian and authoritarian.