Joe Rogan hits back at media calling him \u201chomophobic and transphobic\u201d Joe Rogan Experience (YouTube)UFC analyst and comedian Joe Rogan fired back at media outlets who labeled him as transphobic after a clip of him discussing transgender athletes had resurfaced. Among other things, the popular UFC commentator is known for his massive podcast the \u2018Joe Rogan Experience\u2019 which brings in millions of viewers per episode. However, due to the size of his show, many of his comments around controversial topics are often put under scrutiny and, during one of his latest episodes with Mark Normand, Rogan fired back at some of his critics. Trans comments taken \u201ccompletely out of context\u201d Rogan received a lot of backlash after he was critical of a transgender athlete who had started fighting in a mixed martial arts promotion, without disclosing that she had been born a biological male. After receiving criticism for his approach to the topic, Rogan felt that he had been misrepresented by media outlets who narrowed in on a specific comment despite his concerns around the issue and the safety of others. The backlash had been heightened after Bernie Sanders used Rogan in endorsement material for his presidential campaign. \u201cWhat was fascinating to me was that these people like f**king CNN printed something saying I was homophobic and transphobic, there\u2019s a clip that they\u2019re using that\u2019s completely out of context,\u201d he expressed, denying the accusations. \u201cif there are some trans people listening to this, I\u2019ve got nothing but love for you, for everybody.\u201d Topic starts at 1:53 for mobile users. \u201cThe video they are using is me saying, \u201cyou\u2019re a f**king man.\u201d I definitely shouldn\u2019t have used those words,\u201d Rogan admitted, taking back his choice of words at the time of the comment, but sticking with his original point. \u201cBut this person was a man for 30 years, transitioned to become a woman for 2 years, and then started fighting women, didn\u2019t tell them she used to be a man and was smashing girls, she literally broke this girl\u2019s skull,\u201d he explained. Joe Rogan\u2019s view on trans athletes and fighters Rogan also revealed that he was not even against the idea of trans athletes fighting in a division of their choice as long as everyone involved was aware beforehand. \u201cHere\u2019s the thing, if she disclosed it and everyone knew I\u2019m 100% okay with it. If you want to do that and you\u2019re a woman, it\u2019s your choice to fight a trans woman and see how you do.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m not (transphobic). This has only to do with athletics, in terms of your gender identity and who you are and what you want to do I don\u2019t care, and specifically, my wheelhouse which is fighting, there is a gigantic physical advantage that men have,\u201d Rogan added. Despite dealing with a lot of controversy in recent weeks, particularly after voicing his thoughts on the upcoming election, the popular podcast host does not seem to shy away from standing his ground, as was seen in his short feud with Stephen A Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Rogan hits back at media calling him \u201chomophobic and transphobic\u201d Joe Rogan Experience (YouTube)UFC analyst and comedian Joe Rogan fired back at media outlets who labeled him as transphobic after a clip of him discussing transgender athletes had resurfaced. Among other things, the popular UFC commentator is known for his massive podcast the \u2018Joe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}