Jordan Peterson podcast from its site in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
suggested that the rise in transgender youths was in part a product of exposure to chemicals.On June 5, the Democratic presidential candidate told the controversial media commentator that he thought the "sexual dysphoria" seen in children, particularly boys, was because they were "swimming through a soup of toxic chemicals."He was speaking in response to a question from Peterson which likened a so-called "climate apocalypse" narrative of global warming to the use of fear in imposing coronavirus lockdown measures.Kennedy Jr., the son of the assassinated senator, has long been known as a vaccine skeptic and has previously spoken out about his opposition to COVID-19 vaccine mandates.It is unclear what part of the 95-minute podcast was found to have violated YouTube's terms of service that led to the video's removal. Newsweek approached Google, YouTube's parent company, via email for comment on Monday.During the discussion, Peterson claimed that vaccine mandates had "pushed forward the use of fear" and had "demoralized young people to a degree that's almost incomprehensible." The Biden administration maintains that lockdown measures and vaccine mandates were necessary to protect public health.The Canadian psychologist added: "I've seen the climate apocalypse [narrative] use fear to induce something approximating the same kind of level of tyranny as far as I'm concerned that characterized the vaccine lockdowns."Asked about his thoughts on this, Kennedy Jr.
said that he saw "these huge levels of depression and despair, loneliness in kids, and I don't think that there's a single cause to it. I think blaming it on depression about [the] climate is probably