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Psychologist Jordan Peterson could lose license if he refuses social media ‘re-education’
Controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson has launched a legal challenge against the College of Psychologists of Ontario after he said the governing body threatened to pull his practicing license if he doesn’t complete social media re-education for comments he made on Twitter and the Joe Rogan podcast.Peterson, 60, filed an application for judicial review with the Ontario Divisional Court, the Toronto Sun reported Wednesday, as the clinical psychologist has said he will refuse to comply with the regulatory body’s demands.
“If it becomes necessary” for him to attend the classes, he pledged to make all of the details of what they’re teaching public.
In June, Twitter suspended Peterson for a post about trangender actor Elliot Page that broke the platform’s rules “against hateful conduct.”
“Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician,” Peterson tweeted.
Twitter’s new CEO Elon Musk reinstated Peterson’s account in November after Musk took over the company.
A month earlier, Peterson announced he would be stepping away from social media after he caught heat for retweeting a New York Post article about plus-size Sports Illustrated model Yummi Nu, calling her “Not beautiful,” adding that “no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.”
In January, the former University of Toronto researcher claimed on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast that being transgender is a result of a “social contagion” and similar to “satanic ritual abuse,” and suggested that acceptance of the trans community is a sign that “civilization’s collapsing.”
Psychologist Jordan Peterson could lose license if he refuses social media ‘re-education’
Controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson has launched a legal challenge to the College of Psychologists of Ontario’s requirement that he complete social media re-education for comments h…
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