[ADeerAppeared]

> It isn't banned

Yet. They have clearly voiced their desire for this.

> it just won't be state funded.

This isn't just "The government is not funding research into this", this is the government maintaining a list of thoughtcrime and banning researchers from using words.

[dcow]

No it’s not. I am free to publish whatever my crazy mind can cook up. The government’s policy on what an acceptable bar for “take it seriously” is doesn’t change that.

[agieocean]

As someone who has been censored and who has watched my friends be censored for being trans people and talking about it we are most certainly not "free to publish whatever".