During episode #1319 of the Joe Rogan Experience, UFC color commentator Joe Rogan spoke his mind about transgender people competing in women's sports.
Rogan opined that certain people were unfairly trying to justify trans people's dominance in women's sports by comparing them to a few superior female athletes:
"I have problems with all of the sports, all of it when it comes to power sports. I'm not sure they have done the work here... They use the excuse of outliers... Like you can get a regular girl who is a 145 pounds or you can get a Ronda Rousey... There is extreme athletes. The idea is the outlier if you get one superior athlete and then you have them sort of commensurate with the transgender athlete."
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The 55-year-old also claimed that it's extremely unfair for women to have to compete against trans athletes owing to testosterone levels:
"Like a guy who is an athlete who became a woman in his 30s and they identifies as [female] and goes through the surgery. How much benefit does he take of having testosterone flow through his body for 30-plus years... There is fu**ing giant physical differences. These transgender athletes who are dominating against women, who are born a woman, they have to be a woman their whole life. They never have 30 years of testosterone flowing through their veins. It's like doing steroids for 30 years and stopping. It's crazy."
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When Jordan Peterson gave Joe Rogan a simple solution for the transgender debate in women's combat sports
Joe Rogan has long been a critic of letting transgender athletes compete in women's combat sports. During episode #1139 of JRE, controversial Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson gave the UFC commentator a solution for the problem.
Peterson opined that people should stop being being categorized as men or women. Instead, they should be classified in terms of their chromosome combinations:
"You are a man or a woman, that's your choice, but we are going to have a new rule, that is if you have an XY chromosome, so you are an XY person... and if you are an XY person, you don't get to engage in physical combat with an XX person, men or woman, doesn't matter... XYs cannot hit XXs, how's that?"
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