The restriction to his free speech is very narrowly circumscribed to not referring to students by pronouns with which they don ' t identify if someone doesn ' t identify as a female , don ' t call them her . The law doesn ' t require the use of alternative pronouns . Guidelines suggests to use ' they ' if people ask , or if you are not comfortable using ' they ', to just use the person ' s name and not use a pronoun at all . This is such an absurdly narrow restriction of speech that it is frankly astounding that anyone sees a problem . Peterson does not have a right to use the identity of his students as his personal platform , but he can still write papers , produce videos , engage on social media , teach lectures to a captive audience , etc .