To be crystal clear, legal opinion suggests that the bar set by C-16 for pronoun misuse falling foul of human rights legislation is high, and definitely doesn’t endanger people who — without enacting significant harassment — refuse to use non-binary pronouns. The wider issue of hate speech legislation is of course important, and contested. But Peterson is specifically attacking what he sees as the ideology behind trans and non-binary gender — and his characterisation of Canadian legislation here is inaccurate and self-serving.