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adjl posted...

Does he or does he not take issue with referring to people by their chosen names and pronouns instead of alternatives which he believes are more appropriate (for whatever reason)?

His stance is that it depends on the situation. He does take issue with passing laws to compel speech. Since this is not CE I cannot elaborate on that argument further. We are talking about what views Jordan Person has and not advocating for or against them. The point of which being that people do not take time to understand what his position is because they conflate "he has an issue with how laws are passed" with "he has an issue with trans people".

Knowing what his real argument is I do not find his position on that matter to be transphobic. Similarly, he has an argument about people being monkeys full of snakes. This can be interpreted as being in favor of self identifying, depending on the situation. If identifying as a monkey is more useful than identifying as snakes, and if people are consistent about it. Otherwise the facade of a monkey drops, the snakes start to come out, and other monkey people won't know what to make of that. Is that not what trans people advocate for? To be recognized as one thing instead of another that they would be seen as. Jordan Peterson also argues in favor of that.