YouTube Reprimands Anti-Trans Activist But Leaves His Videos Up
Axios, which was the first outlet to cover the story. Peterson is a clinical psychologist in Canada and a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto; he often expresses anti-LGBTQ+ and specifically anti-trans views.In one video, posted July 1, Peterson objected to Twitter’s suspension of his account because of a tweet he posted during Pride Month in which he said, “Remember when pride was a sin?” and deadnamed and misgendered Page, the well-known trans actor.
He claimed not to know what exactly about his tweet violated Twitter’s rules, and he said he would “rather die” than delete it, which was a requirement for reinstatement to the platform.
He also denounced gender-affirming health care and called trans identity “a viciously harmful fad.”In the other video, from July 15, he went even further, calling gender-affirming care “the literal sacrifice of children to false gods” and saying that the provision of such care is “ghoulish” and “fiendish.” He continued, “It’s not just wrong.
It’s Auschwitz and gulag-level wrong. It’s Nazi medical experiment–level wrong.”Gender-affirming health care is endorsed by every major medical organization, including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Psychiatric Association.
