Joe Rogan Explains His Stance on Transgender People "It Only Matters When It Comes to Sports"

Oh that is, that shit drives me crazy Where I lived in my old house in North Hollywood There was a gay couple across the street, two dudes One was a pilot for a major airline And he was in the process and the other guy got fired from Target For being a transgender, this goes back to 2010 And they had cats You know me, dog, I talked to the guys about cats There was an old guy down the block that would come over and talk to him like you can't talk to him Old white dude, like you can't talk to him You can't encourage that in that neighborhood I don't want two more of those fucking assholes moving in And I go, they're out here feeding fucking homeless cats What's the... You know what I'm saying? To this day, whenever I go to my old neighborhood And I see them outside, I pull over, I talk to them Say hello They're just two sweet people trying to be fucking Just being who they are Trying to be who the fuck they are And we make jokes, hey I make jokes The whole thing But at the end of the day, I learned the hard way And I talked about on the stage the other night You were there When I said that my daughter invited me to a party That she went to school with a kid And his parents are transgender And I felt kind of weird and I went And on the way out, I looked at the kid I seen 60 transgender people They come from a community And I saw this little kid smiling I go, I'm adopted That kid's adopted, look what they're doing for that kid They're making him a life And I closed the door and I went in And like I said in the joke, I hugged the lead tranny And I was fucking tight That's it, I eat the food Nice, yeah, it doesn't matter It doesn't matter The only time it matters with me is with sports Just stop with that Just stop with that and we're going to be fine Look, there's some statistic See if this is true That someone sent me Out of the 14 states that allow High school kids to compete As the gender that they identify with Rather than their biological gender In those 14 states, transgender students Are just dominating Transgender male to female They're just dominating They're winning everything It's crazy I know you have problems with the boxing I have a problem with all of the sports All of it When it comes to power sports Like I'm not sure they've done the work here This idea that every trans They use the excuse of outliers And the outliers are there's some super athletes You can get A regular girl who weighs 145 pounds Or you can get a Ronda Rousey who weighs 145 pounds There's extreme athletes There's people that are different Serena Williams is clearly a different level of athlete Than a regular person A regular girl who's like her weight She's just superior And I think that That is what you see with some of these transgender athletes That come over to become women They say well they're no different than Like an Ann Wolf who is like a superior athlete female boxer You ever see Ann Wolf knock girls out? No Dude Dude She haymakers this chick with a right hand It's like one of the most brutal one punch knockouts You've ever seen men or women Perfect technique Boom She just waylays this girl Timber She falls out cold And there's not a whole lot of women Other than maybe Amanda Nunes But Amanda Nunes is doing it with them little gloves on I wonder if she would be able to do it like that With those big gloves I think she probably could Because she hits that god damn hard But you know you got to judge each sport By you know the like you see Paulie Malinage Who goes over to bare knuckle boxing He doesn't do that well In comparison to say like if somebody like You know like a really good high level striker With knock out power with the big gloves on Which put like if you put Deontay Wilder in little gloves I would I don't imagine anybody being able to take that He's fucking people up At like a heavyweight with those big gloves So it's a different thing You know So who the fuck knows But the idea is the outlier The outlier like the the if you get one superior athlete And then you have them sort of commensurate with a transgender athlete Like a guy who was an athlete who became a woman You know in his 30s And they just identify as goes through the surgery But how much benefit does he take of having testosterone flow through his body for 30 plus years We really don't know It doesn't mean you hate transgender people It doesn't mean you don't love everyone It doesn't mean you don't want everyone to live their life And be whoever they want to be With total freedom I don't think we have We have males compete against males for a reason Because we feel like it's more fair Even though it's not Like it's not more fair if I'm playing basketball against Michael Jordan That's not fair He's better He's a better athlete There's people that are just going to be way better than you no matter what you do Like if I trained all my life to be a better basketball player than Michael Jordan It's not even physically possible Right So there's outliers and males But when the outliers when there's so many You have to When you see so many transgender athletes that are dominating in sports And then when you add combat sports Which is how I got involved in this When a woman was doing that who was a transgender woman Just not telling anybody and saying it was a medical issue Like well that's fucking crazy We all we know we want to pretend that everyone's equal You know we want inclusiveness and we want peace We want everyone to get along We want equality We want gender equality Okay I get it I see where you go But we also have to look at reality The reality is There's fucking giant physical differences These transgender athletes 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 then stopping It's crazy That's what I think You're freaking me out I just smoked some reef Me too man How did you get me on this subject? I don't even know how the fuck we got on this subject Oh transgender people But as human beings I love them all I love everybody Dude Eddie Izzard is one of my favorite guests of all time He's so interesting He's been transgender since 85 I believe he said He prefers women, likes women He's not a gay fellow Just likes dressing up as a woman And extremely intelligent Very interesting That special on HBO 15 years ago was mind boggling Say what you want to say It was up there with the great specials Because it had more of a one man show tone to it You didn't qualify as a special But when you look at it as a whole It was a great fucking performance He's a special person He just happens to be transgender It kind of makes him even more interesting