Rogan slams Dem lawmaker for claiming male, female athletes are interchangeable

Podcaster Joe Rogan mocked Pennsylvania Democratic State Sen. Lindsey Williams for suggesting male and female athletes are physically interchangeable.

Williams gave controversial testimony at the state Capitol last week in opposition to a bill that would ban trans athletes from girls’ sports. In prepared remarks ahead of the committee vote on the Save Women’s Sports Act, Williams suggested that female athletes are physically comparable to male athletes, and do not face inherent biological disadvantages.

“I want all girls to know that there are elected officials like me who believe female bodies are just as strong and fast and capable as male bodies,” Williams said.

“I want all girls to know there are elected officials like me who would never underestimate your ability to beat a boy at their own sport, because that’s what the premise of this bill assumes, that female bodies are less than male bodies,” she said, arguing the debate about girls’ sports is a “completely made-up issue.”

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“It’s so kooky,” Rogan said as he marveled at the clip. “You’re like, ‘Come on,’ like I know you want to believe this but if you’re gonna be on TV saying things, it has to make some kind of f—ing sense.”

“She just got caught up in the woke bulls—,” Rogan added. “She lives in an echo chamber – probably all the people around her are all either in academia or in some sort of left-wing f—ing ideology, and they really believe that, and they believe that you should say that, because if you’re not saying that, ‘You’re saying women are less than men,’” he said, mocking the mentality.

“That’s not what anybody’s saying,” he added. “Strength and speed and athleticism is not all of life.”

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When Rogan’s guest, comedian Big Jay Oakerson, said not all men are equally masculine, Rogan responded by acknowledging that there are different roles for everyone in life.

“It doesn’t make you a man just because you can run faster than everybody else,” Rogan said.

“But to say that men can’t run faster than women is just… you’re denying statistics and science and all the information that we have gathered forever. We have so much data,” he continued. “So shut the f— up. This is stupid to say. This is stupid to say. It’s not transphobic, homophobic, it’s not gender-phobic, it’s not misogynistic. It’s just a fact of physical nature,” Rogan concluded.

Fox News Digital reached out to State Sen. Williams’ office but did not receive an immediate response.