The scholars concluded the "malicious responses" indicate that fascism has become a common ideology in engineering and computer science academia.

Interesting mental gymnastics here, apparently if you joke on a survey then you're immediately a fascist.

one transgender researcher who was "already in therapy for anxiety and depression regarding online anti-trans rhetoric."

Not surprised!

The paper claimed that "managing the study’s data collection caused significant personal distress, and time had to be taken off the project to heal from traumatic harm" of having to read students' responses in the survey.

Traumatic harm the only harm that might come from edgy survey responses is what the surveyor will do to themself.