The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - JBP Reacts to Court Decision
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Dad, nice to see you.
Hey, Mick, how are you doing?
I'm not doing too bad, how are you?
Good, actually, all things considered,
I'm in Milwaukee looking forward
to the presidential debate tonight, that's fun.
You know, I'm perplexed, I would say,
about the situation in Canada.
I've been thinking about it this morning,
as you know, the court that we appealed
the college of psychologists decision to decided that the
college has, it's within the college's purview to stop me from having any political opinions
as far as I can tell.
The decision, which I posted on Twitter and will post in the description of this video,
starts out by making a case for the fundamental reality of freedom of speech for Canadians
in Canada, and then says, but, and that's always a bad start when you're talking about
freedom of speech, but apparently the college has the right to decide that I can be reeducated forcibly
with the risk of my license, essentially because I made political statements that the members
of the college don't agree with.
And those opinions involve two criticisms of Justin Trudeau, one criticism of his chief of staff, one criticism
of an Ottawa City Councilor, an objection to the trans-butchery that's occurring around
the world that's absolutely 100% unforgivable in my estimation, and also by UN definition
a crime against humanity, which is exactly what the forced sterilization
of miners boils down to.
And then my objection on Joel Rogan
to the climate apocalyptic fear-mongering
that idiot tyrants are foisting on the general population.
Now, apparently that makes me unprofessional
and a disgrace to the profession, such that
I am now going to be required, the college can go ahead with this, to put me into a re-education
program with their so-called social media experts, and that's also, by the way, a profession
that does not exist until I learn my lesson, whatever that is, regardless of how much time that
takes, by their judgment, or they can take my license away.
And so the court says, well, of course, you have freedom of speech, Dr. Peterson, but
because you're a professional, you're bound by your professional organization.
And apparently they're not bound, even though there are government organizations, fundamentally, apparently they're not bound by that fundamental constitution laxia. And so that
shows you all you Canadians who are listening. And everyone outside of the country who might be
the least bit interested in Canada, that shows you exactly what our bloody constitution is worth.
And if Canadians are so daft that they don't think that that's a problem, well,
they're going to figure it out over the next 15 years because there's absolutely no excuse for
this. So that's what I'm thinking. Now, there's part of me that's thinking,
a look, Peterson, the college of psychologists is after you. You've taken it to court. Now the judges have decided that you're wrong.
Maybe you're wrong. And I think, well, I expressed political
sentiment and I'm actually informed. And so for the life of me, I can't see how I'm wrong.
I think I have a responsibility to say what I think, and I think many people agree with that.
And I think the fundamental consequence of that around the world has been massively beneficial to people.
So I think, I think, number one, what the hell, and number two, bring it on and see what
happens, because I will make absolutely every bit of this public in a way that the college and the courts can hardly even imagine.
So, away we go. So, that's how I'm doing. That's how you're doing, okay, but good.
Yeah, but good, you know, I mean, I didn't look. The court decision was worse than I thought it would be.
I was already pessimistic. I figured the court would
take the coward's way out and basically upgrade the college for procedural inadequacy because one of the things the college did, which is just beyond comprehension as far as I'm concerned, is
pursue these complaints that were put forward by people distributed all over the world, who then claimed in writing
falsely to be my clients, when in fact they were never my clients and not only were they
not my clients, they had nothing to do with anyone who was ever a client of mine.
And so I figured at least the court would say, well, of course you have the right to police
professionals because you're a professional governing body, but they didn't even do that.
They just basically said, well, of course you have the right to freedom of speech, except
when it comes to, let's say, political opinions.
So then what right do you have at all?
And it's terrible, Michaela, because I know perfectly well from
talking to many physicians, physicians in particular, but also lawyers and psychologists that no
one in Canada, arguably, and this is also extremely strange, it's surreal, there's no one in Canada
except me that's actually in a position to fight this, because it's hyper-expensive, and I don't know if my insurance will cover it.
It's hyper-expensive. It's stressful. It's complex. It's time-consuming. It could involve the
suspension of my license. And there's not really anything that can be done to me that's a threat.
I'm not serving as a clinician.
I don't have a practice anymore because that became impossible, even though I love doing
it.
I'm also not very happy about that.
So I'm like the person who can do this.
And Canadians have no idea to what degree professionals in Canada are now required not to say what they think or
to lie outright.
So for example, therapists are required by law to lie about, let's say, the gender identity
of minors.
And so for me, especially on the therapy side, if you're required by law and by your professional
organization to lie cowardly, you're done as a therapist because the only thing you've
got as a therapist is honesty.
That's it.
Honesty is what's curative.
So, you know, it's just part of how surreal the world is and particularly how surreal Canada
is.
It's hard to found them.
And it is hard to fathom.
Can I read just a couple of sentences from the decision so people have an idea of what's
in here?
It's linked below.
People can read the entire thing.
But there's parts, like this is how it begins.
When individuals join a regulated profession,
they do not lose their charter right
to freedom of expression.
At the same time, however,
they take on obligations and must abide
by the rules of their regulatory body
that may limit their freedom of expression.
That's just one sentence after another.
That's how it starts.
Yeah, perfect.
It's a great thing to highlight.
It's like, well, you have this fundamental right, but what rules, there's a rule,
there's a rule, is that right?
That the college of psychologists has, that I can't criticize Justin Trudeau on Twitter.
That's a rule, is it?
And if someone anywhere in the world complains about the fact that I've criticized Justin
Trudeau, let's say, that all of a sudden, that's a rule, even though it wasn't a rule. And,
of course, I get to criticize Justin Trudeau, not only because he richly deserves it in
every way you can possibly imagine, but because that's actually what freedom of speech means.
So I have no idea what the court means by, you know, abiding by the rules.
So, the rules are whatever the bloody college of psychologists determines, constitutes a rule
after the fact given their complete freedom to make manifest any rules they want.
It's beyond comprehension.
And yes, but I have freedom of speech.
It's like, do I know what do I get to talk about?
Apparently I can't even talk about the weather.
You know, here's another fact.
This is literally the truth.
People can submit a complaint
to the College of Psychologists from anywhere in the world.
And so someone in the state submit a complaint to the College of Psychologists from anywhere in the world. So someone in the state submitted a complaint about the last conversation I had with Joe
Rogan, where I expressed my doubts about the validity of economic predictions based on
climate science.
The complainant submitted the entire transcript, right?
The three-hour conversation as evidence of my unprofessional behavior.
And the college, which did not have to pursue that complaint, went forward with it.
So like, okay, I talked to Joe for three hours.
Apparently, everything I said in that three hours was unprofessional and
a disgrace to the to the profession. So like, well, what am I supposed to do about that? The
answer is, well, we're going to appeal the decision. I will take this to the Supreme Court.
I don't think that any judges will have either the wisdom or the courage
to rule about this properly except at the Supreme Court level.
And I'm not particularly optimistic about that either.
I'm not optimistic about that either.
I don't see how you can win this without overturning colleges in general.
And I don't, like, that's not a good look for the colleges to lose this. and win this without overturning colleges in general.
And I don't, like, that's not a good look for the colleges to lose this.
So won't the Supreme Court,
I know they're not supposed to be pressured,
but won't they, what's the benefit for them
for ruling in your favor?
Other than with freedom of speech.
Well, the benefit would be that they support,
well, they would support the most fundamental principle
of a free society, right?
It's like, why do you have the right to freedom of speech?
Well, the answer is, is because there's no difference
between free speech and thinking,
no difference between free speech and dialogue,
and no difference between free speech
and problem solving and negotiation.
And so, and therefore peace, if you eliminate that, people can no longer think they can
no longer adapt, they can no longer negotiate, they no longer even know how to orient themselves
in the world.
And so in principle, the advantage for their Supreme Court is that they rule in favor
of the most fundamental principle
upon which civil democracy itself is predicated
now i don't think we have the right to free speech in canada i think this this uh...
this decision today
demonstrates that obviously i saw the same thing with the law society in canada
partly was why i'm not surprised at this ruling i've been through this before
and i see that canada's walked down that idiot path
for at least 30 years.
So our country is in,
well, this is where I start to get doubtful.
It's like, either I'm wrong
or the country is in trouble.
Now, to tell you the truth,
I would rather be wrong,
but I've thought it through. It's like, okay,
what did I do exactly? None of my clients complained. That has nothing to do with this.
And I express my political opinions, which I have a right to do, which I believe were
correct. I think that, and Canadians agree with this now. The last poll indicated that Canadians
believe that Justin Trudeau is the worst prime minister we've ever had. Well, that was I think that and Canadians agree with this now. The last poll indicated that Canadians believe
that Justin Trudeau is the worst prime minister
we've ever had.
Well, that was sort of my point a year ago, you know?
And so if I can't say that,
and yet a majority of Canadians believe it to be true,
and believe me, a lot more of them are gonna believe that.
A lot more are gonna believe that
in the relatively near future. In what sense do I have anything even approximating freedom of speech?
And if I can't have that opinion and therefore in principle no one can, then what do we do when
we're stuck with a prime minister, let's say, who everyone has decided is the worst prime minister the country's ever had. Well, move, run if you
can. Well, this is another reason, you know, why I'm in a position that I can fight this
way, because the worst thing that could happen is the college can take away my license. Now
I already know that if my license gets taken away, there are other jurisdictions that will grant me a license the next day.
And, you know, there's a real comedic, there's a real comedic element to that because I could lose my
license in Ontario and instantly be licensed in at least three other jurisdictions. And so that's
not going to look very good with regard to the Ontario College of Psychologists.
So they got rid of you.
Well, and fair enough, and if that's what they want, I mean, the other problem that the
college is going to face is that, and I don't know exactly what they're going to make of
this, but all the people who are involved in this prosecution are going to find very
soon that this will eat their life.
So you know, for media perspective.
I've offered, yeah.
Well, I've offered to the college to negotiate.
I actually have a solution in mind.
And I've heard the odd comment indicating
that maybe that's a possibility.
I reached out a month ago with an idea,
they haven't got back to me.
I think they're waiting for this decision
to tell you the truth.
And of course, they're going to be entirely abulled by this. I know this solution, which I'm not going to
discuss in this podcast. I have to talk to them first. I have a reasonable solution.
But, and I also know or think I know, you might ask, well, why is the college doing this?
And my suspicions are because we've been through this before.
You know, when Cambridge University canceled my, the seminar I was going to conduct there
on Exodus, I found it eventually that it was basically one person who was behind all
of that.
There were two more that were associated with that person. And I know perfectly well that there's a few
progressive
psychopaths that are associated with the college
who are pushing the college to go after me for whatever the hell their reasons are.
You know, maybe they disagree with my political opinions, particularly on the transplant. And that was the that was the tweet
I think that really
probably initiated all this, right? I tweeted about on the transplant. And that was the, that was the tweet, I think, that really probably
initiated all this, right? I tweeted about Elliott Page and said that a criminal physician
cut off her breasts and that pride was once a sin. And I actually think that tweets
doing pretty damn well now because it's become pretty obvious that there's no shortage of
trans surgery butchery being conducted on minors and I feel that there's, I believe that is a crime
against humanity. And so I'm perfectly happy that I tweeted that particular tweet and I also think
in five years nobody will admit that they were ever in favor of any of this, right?
This is far worse than the lobotomies of the 1930s.
This is inexcusable.
You know, I read one poor kid today on Twitter, D-transitioner, was decrying his castration,
fancy that, and pointing out, for example, that, you know, he's a young guy.
He has no sexual drive whatsoever.
And he said, well, you know, what am I going to do?
What have I lost?
I can't believe I was so stupid as to have gone through with this.
It's like, you know, fair enough, kid.
You probably should have woken up,
but the people who facilitated that transformation,
your therapists and your surgeons,
as far as I'm concerned,
they should be jailed for the rest of their lives.
So.
Yeah. What happens? I think it's-
I think it's-
You know harm.
Yeah, right.
I should also point out, just so everyone is aware of this.
Surgeons are much more likely to be psychopathic
than people in the typical profession.
That's a well-documented phenomenon
in the psychological literature.
Now, it's not only surgeons, obviously.
You see it in other professions as well.
But if you happen to be sadistic and psychopathic, a profession that allows you to cut people
up, that's that, that, that, and you think, well, there are no people like that.
It's like, well, I think they just arrested some nurse in the UK for killing a bunch of
babies in her psychopathic and sadistic
manner.
And so if you don't think there are people like that, you're naive beyond belief and
you better bloody well pray that you never meet anyone like that because they're looking
for someone just as naive as you to have their way with.
There are countries now that have outlawed surgery for minors, transgender surgeries for minors.
Like I believe in that.
Yeah, they didn't exactly outlaw.
I got corrected on that claim by community notes on Twitter.
What happened was they've restricted surgery to minors to clinical trials, which is, you
know, it's a detail.
They backtrack.
There's no Denmark, France, Sweden, the UK, Holland, the Netherlands, which is particularly
relevant because that's where this gender affirming surgical idiocy first made itself manifest.
The Europeans have woken up to the fact that, well, you know what?
Turns out that there's no evidence that sterilizing young people and cutting off their breasts
makes them happier.
Isn't that a shock?
Yep.
I think this is going to blad.
This is an argument that has to be had right now and it's going to, there's going to be
such pushback from people who have gone through these surgeries, starting
now, it's already happening.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You had some more things to read from the decision.
Yeah.
Well, there are a couple of other, I don't know if they're funny, but there are a couple
of other parts just to clarify what's going on.
Is this decision that they've come to order Dr. Peterson as a registered member of the college to complete a specified
continuing education or remedial program, a skirp regarding professionalism in public statements.
The order is not disciplinary, it clarifies that here, and does not prevent, that's good, right?
It's not a question. You just have to pay for things you don't want to do. Right.
I have to pay for things I don't want to do.
It's also not specified.
So that what's specified is that I have to be retrained.
What's specified in this specification is that I have to be retrained regardless of
how long that takes until the people who are responsible for the retraining
have decided that I've learned my lesson. Right? So don't tell me that's specified and don't
bloody well lie, you pikers and tell me that that's not disciplinary. How pathetic can you get? It's
like if you're going to come after me, why don't you bloody well admit that you're disciplining me,
which is absolutely 100% obvious, especially because
you're also claiming that I deserve to be disciplined.
You know, it's like claiming you're in charge in favor of freedom of speech and then telling
me that, well, except that, you know, you're a professional.
And of course, we wouldn't want professionals to be able to, you know, tell the truth or
say what they think because everyone wants their professionals to lie to them because that's how you get the best advice and guidance.
Obviously.
Yeah.
Howard's.
Yeah.
I think what shocks me about this is you are basically being brought to task over the
Joe Rogan podcast, one of the Joe Rogan podcasts, which is insane.
And over political tweets, like it says right here, a tweet on February 19th in which Dr.
Peterson commented that an auto-acity counselor was an appalling self-righteous moralizing
thing.
And appalling self-righteous moralizing thing.
Yeah, well, I used thing because I didn't want to get in trouble on the pronoun
front. Oh, well, I don't think that panned out well. Well, we'll see. And so far, it's caused a certain
amount of trouble. Okay, so there was the order, what a city of counselor. Yeah, what other, what a
do? Tweet on January 2nd in which Dr. Peterson responded to an individual who expressed concern over over population.
That's how it's worded.
And your response was you're free to leave at any point.
The person actually said, just so we get this right, that there were too many people on
the planet.
Now, I'm not very happy with that statement at all, because I listen to people, I listen
to what people say.
And when people say, well, there should only be 500 million people on the planet, because
that's what the planet can sustain.
I think, what do you plan to do with the other 7,500 million?
They're inconvenient, are they?
And you, what do you think they should be dispensed with?
Just exactly what the hell are you saying?
And if you think that there are too many people,
well, what makes you so sure that you're not one of them,
especially if you're the one that's concerned about it.
You know, if the lifeboat is too crowded to float,
maybe the morally appropriate thing to do is jump off,
right?
To save everybody else. Not to pretend that, well, who is it?
Is it the Africans who don't get to have fossil fuels, for example?
Is it people all over the world, the poor people who are multiplying
so rapidly they're devouring the planet's resources?
Should they all go?
You have bloody moralizers.
There's a genocide
of impulse in that. And so I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about calling someone
out on it, especially when I'm doing it, obviously, ironically. Now, they actually said,
the bloody college said the complaint was I was counseling to suicide. Okay, really, who is stupid enough to
think that? Well, obviously, the Canadian College of Psychologists and the Canadian courts.
So there's another one, there's another one that kind of goes along with that where you're
clearly joking and that this is what they say. So this is from the Joe Rogan podcast.
Speaking about air pollution and child deaths, Dr. Peterson said,
it's just poor children and the world has too many people on it anyways, which is clearly sarcasm.
That's in there though. Yeah, yeah, well, that's that's and those are the, so just so everybody's
watching listening. No, so, you know, someone can take out a complaint by going and filling out a forum out the Ontario College of Psychologist website. So if anybody out there is inclined to complain some or just go ahead and do it.
But the college doesn't have to pursue those complaints because they can define them as vexatious and just trouble making right. So it isn't even only that members of the public,
the millions of people that I'm communicating with,
let's say, are prone to complain,
but that the college itself decided
that that was sufficient grounds
to threaten my license and to force me into reeducation.
Of course, they're not doing it
for disciplinary reasons.
It's like, what the, what the,
I don't even understand what that means.
If you're not doing it for disciplinary reasons, So, like, what the, what the, I don't even understand what that means.
If you're not doing it for disciplinary reasons, it's like, why is it forced and why am I being
upgraded?
That's like the definition of disciplinary.
So that just shows you how mandatious the decision is.
Yeah, yeah. And then it does go to outline that it's directed Dr. Peterson
and to our coaching program with either one or two individuals identified by the panel
to review, reflect on and ameliorate his professionalism in public statements. The coaching program
was to begin within three months and to be completed within 12
costs associated with the coaching are born by you. It also outlines that coaching doesn't end until you've successfully ameliorated your professionalism and learns. Yeah, and so and what the hell is that
supposed to mean precisely? I need a whole personality transplant parents. But there's another problem too there. And here's the problem. I'm not wrong.
So that's a big problem. And I swear I will do this. If I am required to undergo the retraining,
I will undergo the retraining. And I will tape it. And I will broadcast it. And then everyone else can decide,
then everyone else can decide for themselves
just exactly what the hell's going on.
And whether or not I've contemplated my words,
whether or not I've thought through everything I say carefully,
whether or not I have any grounds for my opinions,
I don't say things that I haven't thought about
and thought about a lot.
And so I agree with Canadians that Justin Trudeau is the worst prime minister that the country
has ever had.
And I think he's actually far worse than people think.
And I think the corruption of the judiciary reflects that.
And I think that the college is being overwhelmed by woke cowards.
And I think that professionals in Canada no longer have the right to express their thoughts, which makes, which invalidates them as useful professionals.
And I think they're pushed into a corner so badly that even the brave professionals I know, and I do know some, are unwilling to fight this, to even make public statements in support of me, because the bloody colleges are so corrupt and have them
over a barrel so badly that even the brave people are afraid to say anything. And if you think
that is the hallmark of a free country, there is really something wrong with you. You bloody
well better wake up. And if you think that if that's happening to professionals, that it's not
going to happen to you, well, you are exactly naive enough to deserve exactly what's coming down the pipeline for you.
I guess one of the problems I see is, right, so you're in a good position to fight this,
even though it's costing, it is seriously costing an arm and a leg,
and it's time consuming and it's stressful, but at least you're not reliant
on your clinical practice for livelihood, right?
Yeah.
As opposed to other people,
what's the average Canadian supposed to do
when they're living in a society like this?
Like how do you fight?
Because in my opinion, I honestly don't know
if you're, you can win this.
I think Canada is crooked and woke very, very deep down.
So I don't necessarily see this going in a good direction for your clinical license, at
least in Ontario.
What are average people supposed to do to try and stop their society from going in this
kind of direction?
Because it feels like I moved, I just ran away.
I was like, goodbye to this country.
I'm going to America.
It has its problems for sure, but at least there's freedom of speech built in there.
What's the average Canadian dude to fight back against this?
Get involved in the political process at whatever level they can.
Get involved in the school boards, get involved in the political parties, get involved in
local elections, volunteer for election, start differentiating between the false government
state-funded legacy news and actual news if you can do that, even though that's become impossible
in Canada too, because now Canadians can't get news. It's like, look, here's the rule, Mick,
this is the rule. All responsibility on the political front abdicated by the average citizen will be taken up by tyrants and used against you.
And so you either take responsibility for this, which means to get involved in the political process, or you suffer the consequences.
Now, you know, a young person might be thinking, well, what could I do?
And I would say, you know, that's actually not a good attitude. And I mean that practically because what you will find if you're young, if you go volunteer for a political
campaign, let's say, first of all, you're going to learn a lot. You're going to sharpen your
political beliefs. You're going to learn how to put an argument forward. And then if you're
competent and hardworking, you're going to find that avenues of opportunity open for you on the political
front so quickly that you can hardly imagine it. And that's partly because most political
organizations are chronically short of help and absolutely chronically short of competent
help. And so if you stepped into the political arena, you'd learn to speak more fluently,
you'd put your arguments together, you'd learn to be more responsible, you'd take the responsibility onto
yourself and strengthen yourself as a consequence, you'd keep the country on the straight and narrow
and you'd keep it free, and all sorts of opportunities would emerge for you.
And so that's what you do.
Now people don't do that, and it's partly also because they're caught.
Oh, you know, the whole system is so corrupted. Nothing can be done about it. It's like,
well, if that's the case, you're in real trouble. And if it's not the case,
take advantage of the opportunity. Get out there. Do something about it. You know, you're a citizen.
It means you have some responsibility of you're a citizen without responsibility or headed for slavery.
Simple as that.
That's how the world works.
If you don't stand up for yourself, obviously the people who will exploit you will exploit
you, obviously.
So I don't think it is hopeless at all.
I think that Canadians, I think that the fundamental bedrock of our institutions is still solidly
enough in place, although it is threatened, that we don't have to walk down this increasingly
authoritarian route.
And you know, there's some positive signs.
One of them being, for example, that the bloom is off the Trudeau Rose.
You know, there's a man who couldn't even tell the truth about his marriage.
What's the alternative?
You know, you said, for example, you left while there were business reasons for that, too,
because it does turn out that the United States is a place much more, it's much more straightforward
to do business in the United States.
And most people who are watching listening will not know that Canadians are now, Canadians
now make 60% as much as Americans make, 60% and the gap is growing. And that's a huge difference
that we were at parity in the 1970s. It's a catastrophic difference. And Trudeau and
his bloody minions, Stephen Guilbo, Prime among them, are doing, he said today, Guilbo said
today that the
days of free and plentiful energy are over.
Well, there's no difference between energy and wealth, and there's particularly no difference
between energy and wealth for poor people.
You want to make poor people poor, make energy expensive.
Energy is work.
You make work expensive.
You demolish the poor, obviously.
Well, I object to that. You make work expensive, you demolish the poor, obviously.
Well, I object to that, that's why I object
to the climate fear-mongering apocalyptic lies
because it destroys the poor,
just so that the people who are screeching
about the sky falling can feel momentarily moral
about their role as planetary savior.
It's like, no, to hell with you, seriously.
You leave the poor alone, you have pricks.
There's also definitely not one person
who's screeching about the sky falling in terms of climate
that's having problems, affording energy.
Not one of those people can't afford heat.
Yeah, well, that's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
It's, it's exactly right. That's exactly right.
The people who are struggling to put food on their table and to keep their air conditioners
on, to keep their heaters on in the winter, they're not playing moralistic games on the planetary
savior side of things.
No, they're just trying to scrabble forward with a certain degree of hope.
It's appalling to see the left support this, for example, because in principle, the They're just trying to scrabble forward with a certain degree of hope.
It's appalling to see the left support this, for example, because in principle, the left is the voice of the underclass, let's say.
And it's obvious that the progressives will sacrifice the poor to nature, right?
To nature worship, to Gaia, this imaginary catastrophe that justifies
degrowth, for example. What the hell do you think degrowth means? If you don't think that means
starving poor people, you're an idiot. And you might say, well, there's too many people on the
planet anyways. In which case, I would say, then leave. Well, is there anything else you think we should get into details about this?
Or does that give people a good idea about what's going on?
We can continue updating people, but this is the big story now.
Hopefully we can get this covered by insurance because...
Oof.
Well, insurance for a practitioner is mandatory, and insurance for a practitioner is mandatory
for these reasons.
And so it would be quite the situation.
If it turned out that the insurance, which I was paying, because that was mandatory,
also fails to cover this sequence of events.
So we'll see about that.
But I'll take this, I will take this as far as necessary.
So, and like I tell you, Mac, Mick,
I am very much inclined, as you know,
to if I'm accused of doing something to rake myself
over the calls and to try to find out if I did something wrong.
And I went through those allegations at Christmas in detail.
It was very stressful because I thought, you know, well, maybe there's something here
and that I went beyond the bounds of reasonable conduct.
And I was very apprehensive.
There were 13 charges at that point.
They've dropped seven. God only knows why they dropped those seven. It's just arbitrary. But I
went through all 13 in detail hundreds of pages of allegations. And when I came out of that, I thought,
well, first of all, I thought, how daft can you be to pursue allegations put forward by people
who lied about the fact they were clients of mine?
You know, those should have been just taken off the table instantly, obviously.
You can't start by trusting the word of someone who lies in writing about something fundamental.
So that was kind of a relief in some sense, right?
Because I thought, well, that sheds a pretty dim light on the procedures of the college. And then I went through each allegation in turn. And I think the most
damning, as I said, was the tweet in relationship to Elliot Page. That was certainly the one that
caused the most public trouble. It's like, I got to tell you, kiddo, that's looking pretty good now.
So despite my proclivity to feel guilt, which is quite substantive, and despite my temperamental
unwillingness to engage in conflict, I don't see not only do I not see what I did wrong,
I think what I've done on the public communication front is my responsibility as a clinician
To tell the truth about what I see
Including what's happening on the trans butchery front and so
So we'll make it public
in every possible way and I'll bring to bear every single bit of public pressure.
I can possibly muster on this particular topic.
And we will watch over the next three years,
because that's how long it'll take,
exactly how this plays out.
So, and I've, you know, we've cordoned off our life.
I can deal with this without it having interfered
with everything else I'm doing.
I've talked to Tammy, I've talked to you in Julian.
My family's on my side.
We're solidly committed to this.
I have a good legal team.
We have the money necessary to do this
and we have the connections.
So if the college wants to re-educate me,
they're more than welcome to try.
But if they think they're going to do it in secret,
they've got another thing coming.
Well, with that, it was nice talking to you.
Have fun at the presidential debate tonight.
I like your suit.
Oh, thank you, isn't it ridiculous? Yeah, it's good. You stand tonight. I like your suit. Oh Thank you, isn't it ridiculous?
Yeah, it's good. You stand out. I like it very so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I thought I'd blend in with the crowd tonight, you know
You know the Americans they're very theatrical right this everything Americans do is theatrical and so
this presidential debate it's theater of the best sort and
I'm down here to have an adventure, you know? And so, and it's what I should be concentrating on.
Am I writing, you know?
But,
in for a penny, in for a pound.
That's for sure.
Yeah. Okay's for sure. Yeah.
Okay, kiddo.
Bye, I'll talk to you soon.
Bye, bye.
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