CW for transphobia & bodyshaming
Looks like lobster boy's wacky antics are catching up with him! As an aside, I like how one of the complaints is that he talks about things which are outside of his area of expertise, with the Guardian reporting that scientists criticised his "word salad of nonsense" about climate change on the Joe Rogan podcast.
How people didn't pick up on this sooner, I'm not sure. He did the exact same thing in that Cathy Newman interview on C4 years ago when he brought up the lobsters, and he only got more popular after that. How has he not already been dismissed?
He has since deleted the document, and the screenshots from this twitter thread are all that remain.
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Also don't read the replies
Doctors like Peterson are why I’m not going back to therapy. He’s not the only one like this by any means, he’s just the most famous.
Most therapists get no pushback whatsoever for their entire careers because the patient they’re talking to is the only one subjected to their harmful bullshit at a time, and who’s gonna believe that one person? I mean, they are in mental health treatment after all… right?
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I just wanna throw it out there; theres nothing wrong with not going back to therapy. Empirically, from studies, its as effective as having a friend group or going to a confessional. Its buying "unalienated" connections.
BTW this is a serious problem in countries that place psychological / psychiatric gatekeeping before gender affirming care. In my country, i need to see a psychologist or psychiatrist if i want to access any trans healthcare. I made sure to look up lists published by LGBT orgs to find an experienced, trans inclusive therapist who operates on the "informed consent" model and gave me a referral to an endocrinologist after just making sure i knew what i was up to and really wanted this, which is really all that's needed for this. But others are not that lucky. "Trans specialist" doesn't always equal trans inclusive because nobody overseeing the field is doing the right thing, which is revoking the licenses of reactionary weirdos like Jordan Peterson. So baby trans who are still figuring themselves out may end up with some transphobe who constantly questions their identity, asks highly invasive and inappropriate questions, still uses outdated and sexist rating systems like the Benjamin scale and may still refuse to give them HRT after a year or two. Trans patients will also be much less able to just walk out of that practice and say "fuck it" when our entire treatment depends on it and switching therapists means additional months on a waiting list. If you've got a transphobe at hand, getting the hell out of there is absolutely needed, both to get quicker access to healthcare and to save your own mental health, but many questioning people do not have that kind of knowledge and try to sit things out while they're traumatized over and over again.
So i absolutely hope he gets his license revoked even if its largely a symbolic act. If you're seeing a therapist you are by definition in a vulnerable position and need somebody you can trust and confide in, and a lot of people, not just trans people, are hurt by doctors who get in the field mostly because they are manipulative and enjoy to have power over others. Banning the prime example for that kind of medicalized abuser sets a precedent, even if it's just in Canada where trans healthcare is miles ahead of almost all other places in the world. Doctors like this are doing stuff that's nothing but low-key, secularized conversion "therapy" and they need to be stopped.
Look for younger ones there’s lots of good ones out there.
My friend saw 5 therapists before he found a good one. And that one has changed for life for the better in amazing ways