I actually think respect is a better basis for the gender pronoun argument than any detailed view of the nature of gender — certainly in terms of the pragmatics of social traction. I don’t see why disagreements about the nature of gender should get in the way of respecting someone’s basic sense of themselves. And certainly we should have debates about the extent to which such things can or should be encouraged or enforced — but again, Peterson seems to have damagingly exaggerated the reach of C-16 on this, seriously muddying the important debate on freedom of speech.