Joe Rogan under fire over allegedly transphobic comments on his podcast Joe Rogan Experience\/SpotifyComedian and UFC analyst Joe Rogan is under fire again, after critics accused him of being transphobic following a discussion on his podcast on the topic. Among a ton of other ventures, Rogan is mostly known these days for his viral podcast, the Joe Rogan Experience, which regularly draws in millions of listeners per episode. Considering how big the show has become, though, it\u2019s no surprise that everything the host says gets put under a microscope \u2013 which is exactly what happened shortly after a March 19 episode with fellow comedian Jim Breuer went live. While discussing the trans community with Breuer, Rogan questioned what he considers to be the current mainstream attitude towards the topic of transitioning. \u201cIt\u2019s not fake,\u201d Rogan said. \u201cThere are people who really have these thoughts. The problem is, it becomes a protected subject, and then you get praised for transferring your gender \u2014 for changing your gender. And then it gets exciting for people to talk about, and then you get chastised for even discussing it in any weird way.\u201d Rogan also complained about how he feels the transgender identity is being used by some for unconditional praise from their peers. \u201cThen people who were marginalized for being \u2014 like, generally dumb people, if they transfer over and become another gender, then they get praised,\u201d the host continued. \u201cThere are a lot of people who are idiots, but then they become trans, and now all of a sudden we think they\u2019re amazing.\u201d Rogan and Breuer only continued on the topic briefly, but their pit stop resulted in another round of accusations of transphobia for the former Fear Factor host. According to Digital Media News, their site received \u201cmultiple emails\u201d from people upset about the discussion, and criticisms of the host soon started popping up on social media, as well. \u201cRogan is a bigot & actively still spreads harmful misinformation about trans people and trans issues,\u201d one Twitter user claimed. \u201cHe\u2019s not an \u2018open minded, reasonable guy,\u2019 he\u2019s just an asshole & he\u2019s been an asshole for a long time.\u201d Rogan is a bigot & actively still spreads harmful misinformation about trans people and trans issues. He\u2019s not an \u201copen minded, reasonable guy,\u201d he\u2019s just an asshole & he\u2019s been an asshole for a long time. \u2014 PTChronic (@PTChronic) March 21, 2021 Joe Rogan is probably more liberal than most americans. But please don’t take his advice on trans issues \u2014 \ud83c\udf3aCherryChase\ud83c\udf52 (@CCherryCChase) March 19, 2021 Rogan has dealt with accusations of transphobia before, notably back in 2020, when he responded at length to accusations in the media specifically calling him transphobic and homophobic. Despite this latest incident, the popular podcast host doesn\u2019t seem like he\u2019ll stop voicing his own opinions anytime soon, even if what he says does cause controversy once it comes out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Rogan under fire over allegedly transphobic comments on his podcast Joe Rogan Experience\/SpotifyComedian and UFC analyst Joe Rogan is under fire again, after critics accused him of being transphobic following a discussion on his podcast on the topic. Among a ton of other ventures, Rogan is mostly known these days for his viral podcast, […]<\/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-52279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52279","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=52279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}