Canadian professor slams university ‘political correctness’

It's a mistake to think this issue is about gender politics. And not just a mistake, but a big one, because framed as a gender issue everyone will think Dr Peterson must be a dinosaur or a bigot or out-of-touch. Peterson is not arguing against protection for transgender and other 'non-binary' people; he's arguing against legislation so poorly written that it makes everyone potentially guilty of something all the time. The question we need to address is whether this legislation & social movement can lead towards the kind of oppression we saw in McCarthy's America, or in Mao's China, or Khomeni's Iran. In other words will this legislation, as written, protect people or hurt people? Better crafted legislation or conflict resolution mechanisms (perhaps special ombudsmen) would protect the disadvantaged while promoting inclusion. Why don't we go that route rather than labelling anyone who voices concern about the broader implications of the legislation as a bigot who should be crushed.

I agree

That is precisely the game. Namely, to install a new set of Red Guards on every university that is not toeing the new "party line". This very phenomenon has been going on since there has been a university: obey the new, fashionable dogma of the day, or else...