Yeah, certainly not in the US. The basic elements of defamation under US law are that someone has a) made a false statement of fact b) to a third party (directly or via publishing it) c) that injures someone's reputation d) and was acting negligently or with malice
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He didn't provide any substantive response on the topic, IIRC, preferring to engage in semantics. He blocked her about a month later when he and some podcast hosts were crowing about nobody being willing to debate him & she implied she'd win a debate.
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So he thinks calling trans people by the correct pronouns is just being *nice* to them but doesn't express any kind of truth Someone like Jordan Peterson choosing not to do so is prioritizing truth over politeness and that's a matter of free speech etc
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