Dr. Jordan Peterson, a conservative author and psychologist, escalated his criticism on Elliot Page, saying the largest transgender star in Hollywood was ‘converting’ kids by posing for photos showing off his physique.
Page’s shirtless appearance in Esquire’s summer issue last month prompted Peterson, who claimed Page had his breasts removed by a “criminal physician,” to be suspended from Twitter. Peterson maintained his claim on Friday and claimed he felt compelled to speak up as a result.
See, if Ellen Page hadn’t been flaunting her new abs in a fashion magazine, I would have left her alone, Peterson said to podcaster Kyle Kulinski on his Krystal Kyle & Friends program. How many children did she persuade to convert—one, do you suppose? One thousand?
The contentious psychologist also mocked his Twitter ban, continued to refer to Page as a woman, and continued to use his old name, Ellen.
Transgender persons refer to the conduct as “dead-naming,” which many find disrespectful.
Kulinski, who identified himself as leaning left on the political spectrum, seemed to take issue with Peterson’s assertions regarding Page’s purported impact over children.
As for the LGBT community, Kulinski said, “I think that’s very similar to the trans community where back when that first became a major problem, people thought, Oh, if we talk about it, if it’s in magazines or whatever, we’re supporting kids to go down that path.”
However, in reality, individuals acted as they do. Gay people. Therefore, I don’t believe you are encouraging people to do that.
Peterson responded to Kulinski’s claim after becoming irritated.
He responded, “No, that’s not what occurred. “You are entirely mistaken.
Then he yelled, “You’re completely wrong.” Nothing about that is right, you say.
Peterson referred to the 2017 C-16 bill passed by Canada, which included transgender pronouns in the Canadian Human Rights Act and added the community to a list of identified groups that are exempt from discrimination.
Peterson vehemently opposed the law and declared he would refrain from using transgender pronouns, arguing that rather than assisting the transgender community, it would reportedly worsen others’ mental health.
According to Peterson, “for every one person we potentially save, we doom 1,000 others as a result of bewilderment and social contagion.”
He continued by reiterating the notion that as the community becomes more prominent and talked about, confused LGBT adolescents are allegedly being led to believe they are transgender.
Peterson claimed that the suspension of his Twitter account was hardly a penalty.
Peterson answered firmly, “Well, I don’t know if it put me in problem, you know, I don’t think I’m in trouble, Twitter banned me, but I don’t consider it trouble.
Peterson posted the tweet on June 22, the same day that season three of the Netflix series “The Umbrella Academy” was made available.
By renaming Page’s character from Vanya to Viktor, Netflix included his transition into the program.
Twitter reported Peterson’s remark for violating the platform’s policies against hate speech.
His daughter Mikhaila declared that her father would leave the website until the tweet was removed.
On Wednesday, conservative political commentator David Rubin made a statement regarding the incident.
“Twitter continues to be a crazy place.” As a result of this tweet concerning Ellen Page, @jordanbpeterson has been suspended. He just assured me that he wouldn’t ever remove the tweet. Contacting @elonmusk.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, who had offered $44 billion to assume control of the platform in an effort to support free expression, was contacted by Rubin and Mikhaila.
Musk, who said on Friday that he was ending his takeover, had written: “Yeah, they’re going way too far in squashing dissenting ideas.” Musk had appeared to concur that the suspension was unnecessary.
In December 2020, Page published a message on Instagram announcing his change.
Hello, friends I’d want to let you know that I’m transgender, that my pronouns are he/they, and that my name is Elliot. Lucky for me, I’m writing this. being here To have come to this point in my life,” the author stated.
Jordan has faced criticism for her outrageous comments before.
After declaring a plus-size Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model to be “not gorgeous,” Peterson temporarily left Twitter in May.
Yumi Nu, a 25-year-old curvy model and the first Asian plus-size model to appear in Sports Illustrated, was featured on the cover of the publication.
‘Sorry. Not attractive. And authoritarian tolerance won’t be able to alter that,’ Peterson wrote.
Peterson asserted that he erased Twitter from his devices while his account was still live after receiving criticism. He had already departed the platform once before.
Peterson has a history of controversy stretching back to 2016 before he left the stage in May.