So, what issues are at stake here? What are Peterson’s valid points and blindspots? It’s tricky to be balanced in the wake of a visceral repulsion to someone, but I do think the binaries of morality as well as gender should be questioned. Sure, some people are simply transphobic. I don’t think Peterson is, and characterising him as simply that makes it harder to root out the complex ways in which he is, and the problems with some leftist theory which he addresses, however cack-handedly. Let me go through a few of the issues to sketch this complexity.