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I am a fan of Jordan Peterson but he is wrong here. He's latched on to fear mongering as a way to make a name for himself. As the Canadian bar association explains no one is going to jail here. See my link for the full reasoning.
If the same fear mongering logic in bill c-16 was applied to other protected groups supposedly people would be locked up for calling someone a n-word, that a movie was gay, or numerous other offensive remarks. That never happens in Canada and anyone would laugh at you for thinking so. As the articles explains the bar for hate speech is set much higher than being offensive or having a dissenting opinion.
The problem isn't that c-16 will actually result in arrests, it's a problem because they are starting to legislate offensiveness based on superficial characteristics of the victim.
I don't think hate crime laws should exist for any group, so providing it for people who decide on their gender is ridiculous.
Also, it's not fear mongering. A stand-up comic was charged with a hate crime in Canada for insulting a lesbian couple that was heckling his act and he was fined tens of thousands of dollars. Had he not paid the fine, he would have gone to jail, so they are enforcing this bullshit. The larger problem is that it's a slippery slope and is just a symptom of the larger victim-Olympics that has been going on.