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“I was ready to disapprove of him, but pretty much everything he said I agreed with,” said Ingles, who came to London to see him.

“Everything he said was well thought out. I am female-to-male transgender, I have spoken to people about him and people are really against him. I wanted to see what he had to say. I did not want to make assumptions based on what others say.”

He found him more “inclusive” than he expected. His message on the strength of “individuality,” a common theme in the talk, resonated with Ingles.

“He’s right, it is very much the individual,” he said.

At one point Peterson said to the crowd portrayals of him as Transphobe are “absurd” and that he has support among trans people not represented by activists and protesters.

Julien Bondy from McMaster University came to see Peterson in London after Peterson’s Hamilton talk was cut short by protesters.

“I did not expect the talk to go this way. I am from McMaster and we had a huge protest yesterday,” he said.

“His visit lasted like, 10 minutes. It did not go well.”

But the speech from the professor who has become the darling of the political right, based on his free speech mantra, was surprisingly “centrist,” he added.

You see a lot of Trump hats in there but it was not really about the right or left, but the centre

“You see a lot of Trump hats in there but it was not really about the right or left, but the centre.”

The pronoun issue itself had little focus during the talk, as Peterson made broader references to gender issues, from physical strength to women’s nervous systems, how they are tilted “hard” to “excessive emotionality” to protect children.