https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7a4n4/ucla-pauses-unethical-study-designed-to-mentally-distress-trans-people

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have “paused” a study on transgender identities that advocacy groups say is unethical and designed to cause mental distress to subjects.

Since 2017, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded the research team more than $2.3 million to study the neurobiology of gender dysphoria, the discomfort people may experience when their socially-assigned gender doesn’t match their gender identity.