Twitter suspends Jordan Peterson for Elliot Page trans tweet

Jordan Peterson has reportedly been suspended from Twitter following a post about transgender actor Elliot Page that violated the platforms rules against hateful conduct.

Screenshots posted online show the tweet in question from the Canadian clinical psychologists account, which reads: Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician.

Page came out as transgender in 2020, announcing he would now be known as Elliot. Peterson, 60, is guilty of deadnaming the 25-year-old Umbrella Academy star, a source close to the Oscar-nominated actor told The Post.

Peterson, who joined the staff of conservative podcast outlet Daily Wire on Thursday, is infamous for his anti-trans stance. He once claimed on Joe Rogans podcast that being transgender is a result of a contagion and similar to satanic ritual abuse.

Conservative political commentator Dave Rubin posted screenshots of the removed tweet online, writing, The insanity continues at Twitter, and claiming that Peterson just told me he will never delete the tweet. Paging @elonmusk.

Petersons daughter, Mikhaila, also posted screenshots of the tweets online, taking aim at Twitter and Elon Musk, who has been working to acquire the social media platform.

Wow. @jordanbpeterson got a twitter strike. No more twitter until he deletes the tweet. Definitely not a free speech platform at the moment @elonmusk, she wrote.

The Post has reached out to Twitter reps for comment.

This is the latest in a string of beefs the 60-year-old has had with the little blue bird social media platform. In May, Peterson boldly announced he was quitting the platform after he was called out for shamingSports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model Yumi Nu, writing of the plus-size posers cover debut: Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.

Meanwhile, Twitter has a history of booting individuals and evenentire organizations, including the Babylon Bee, off the platformfor not respecting trans peoples identities, Fox News reported.

A majority of Americans believe a persons gender cannot be changed, according to a new poll released this week, which underscores the publics complicated view oftransgender issues.

The Pew Research Centersurvey found that 60% of adults say a persons gender is determined by their sex assigned at birth. Thats a four-point increase from the previous year 56% in 2021 and a six-point spike from 54% in 2017.

No single demographic group is driving this change, and patterns in who is more likely to say this is similar to what they were in past years, according to the research team.

The poll also found that 86% of Republicans and those leaning right believe gender is determined by the sex assigned at birth, compared to 38% of Democrats and those leaning more left.

However, the survey stated that 64 percent of respondents would support legislation to protect transgender people fromdiscrimination in jobs, housing, and public spaces. And it noted that roughly eight-in-ten U.S. adults say there is at least some discrimination against transgender people in our society.

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Twitter suspends Jordan Peterson for Elliot Page trans tweet