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What specifically is middle of the road Joe Rogan saying that is “anti transgender”? Serious question.

"They have this agenda," he said, "and this agenda is very ideologically driven that anyone who even thinks they might be trans should be trans, are trans, and the more trans people the better. The more kids that transition the better."

https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a33391944/joe-rogan... but you can probably find other sources, it's a direct quote.

That might be right or wrong, but I don't see how it's transphobic. If I said Catholic people have an ideological agenda to make more people Catholic, they want to make their kids Catholic, they want to make your kids Catholic, they want to make YOU Catholic - that might be right or wrong, depending on the Catholics, but I don't see how saying it would demonstrate a prejudice against Catholics.

Catholicism is an explicitly evangelical religion. The idea that trans people want to turn everyone trans is a scare story. We used to hear the same scare stories about gay rights activists trying to turn kids gay. Generally, scare stories like this don't come from a good place. If you're saying that someone could be innocently misinformed, then sure, that's possible in principle, but good intentions only go so far. They'd still be spreading damaging misinformation about a highly contentious issue.

(Late correction: I meant to say 'proselytising', not 'evangelical'.)

What about that statement is anti-transgender? If anything it sounds like he is anti-transgender-extreme-activist. You can put me in that camp as well, I despise those that want to politicize innocent people for their own power.

And I fully support transgender rights, my high school friend's son in transgender from age 5 so I've seen this first hand especially during the most formative years.

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