If that wasn't good enough
This is his facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/drjordanpeterson/posts/1189374994459967
He shared this article with in it:
This shit is transphobic and he shared it.. he endorsed it
http://thefederalist.com/2016/10/18/shouldnt-use-transgender-pronouns/#.WBI5GjDyZCI.twitter
He doesn't get the benefit of the doubt here.
This is his facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/drjordanpeterson/posts/1189374994459967
He shared this article with in it:
From this it is clear that we need to talk about pronouns. We shouldn't need to, but we do. That's just the way the world is right now. A couple of clarifications from the outset, though. Firstly, our concern lies not with an illness (transsexualism) but with an ideology (gender identity, leading to transgenderism).
Secondly, our question is not how to respond if John (who is male) asks us to call him Jessica. Forenames are not inherently linked to sex in the way pronouns are. No, our question is this: if John asks us to refer to him through pronouns other than he/him/his, should we?
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So, in answer to our question, we could not refer to John through some set of pronouns other than he/him/his even if we wanted to. Think of it this way: is it possible to permit males to enter the female restroom? No. Why not? Because as soon as we permit males to enter, the restroom ceases to be the female restroom. Sure, it still has the word "Female" on the door, but its function has changed. Likewise, pronouns cease to be pronouns as soon as we de-sex them. Sure, John can help himself to the linguistic husk of female pronouns—she/her/hers—but their previous content will forever be beyond his reach because their previous content was a female-sexed body.
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Let's just ask ourselves: if we are prepared to say John is not a he, then on what basis can there be anything we are not prepared to say? Seriously, gender pronouns are a hall of mirrors we won't be able to find our way out of. So let's not go there. Ideally, the gap between reality and language should be as narrow as possible so our speech is in harmony with how things really are. Gender ideology, however, requires levering apart language and reality so that reality ends up being beyond the reach of our speech.
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Sex and gender might appear to be two aspects of identity that can run parallel to each other in law, but gender is making claims that contradict sex. The mind is claiming superiority over the body of which it is the mind. So it is not a case of us having both a sex and a gender. No, we are being told to choose: sex or gender. We are being asked to peel words off our body and attach them to our mind. Good luck with that. We are in fact being asked to sever the link between language and our own body.
G.K. Chesterton wrote, "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." This is surely the right perspective to have in the war between sex and gender. It is not about being abrasive or meddlesome, but we do need to get off the back foot so the ground is not constantly shifting beneath us. We need to put down some strong verbal roots in the fertile soil of reality, and that means sticking with real pronouns.
We are not in control of whether somebody will pour hatred in our direction, but we can tend to those things that are within our control. We can look inside ourselves, examine our conscience, and know that our motivation is healthy. Check your heart, not your "privilege." Be confident, hold the line, and respect the pronouns. Respect language. Respect sexual difference. After all, who would John be without the difference between his father and his mother? He would be…nobody.
Is it disrespectful to refuse to call John a she? Not at all. Are we doing something wrong when we gently inform him that regarding pronouns his body beat his mind to the punch? No. Also, is it hurtful or hateful to conserve the relationship between words and people? Nope.
As an anchor to communication, the body works. Sex works. The mind does not. If we refer to people via their sex, as we should, there is no possibility of ever "mis-gendering" or "mis-pronouning" somebody. Dr. Peterson won't use gender-neutral pronouns, and you shouldn't either. All together now: I won't do it.
This shit is transphobic and he shared it.. he endorsed it
http://thefederalist.com/2016/10/18/shouldnt-use-transgender-pronouns/#.WBI5GjDyZCI.twitter
He doesn't get the benefit of the doubt here.