It’s been frequently pointed out to me that Peterson actually would, on a personal level, use a person’s pronouns. Actually he says it would depend on how the person asked, and whether he judged their request for a pronoun to be ‘genuine’ or a ‘narcissistic power-play’ – the latter which he would deem to be the most likely situation (https://youtu.be/s_UbmaZQx74?t=3m15s). I think this a priori judgement is at least a little transphobic. On the one hand, it must be recognised that the overt core of Peterson’s refusal to use trans or non-binary pronouns is the refusal to use them under legal compulsion. On the other hand, he and his fans seem slow to recognise the cognitive dissonance caused by the juxtaposition of this next to his less nuanced public statements, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9TwrXRUa_I, where he segues, without irony, from a blank refusal to use pronouns to discussion of Nazi death camps. The out-of-context quote around this video does nothing to help matters, but neither does Peterson’s bile, and his casual elision of debatable efforts to protect the rights of the marginalised, with fascist genocide. [15/7/18] ↩