Joe Rogan continues to attack transgender people on his Spotify podcast
metroweekly.comunder fire for using his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, to spread COVID-19 misinformation. Spotify, which exclusively hosts Rogan’s podcast, has refused to censor him — leading multiple artists to pull their catalogs from the streaming audio service in response.But in a recent episode, Rogan once again turned his attention to transgender people, after previous episodes in which he and his guests have compared being trans to having anorexia, have pushed debunked claims about medical procedures on trans youth, and decried that they can’t use anti-trans slurs.Speaking to former psychology professor and right-wing provocateur Jordan Peterson on Jan.
25, Rogan suggested that trans acceptance was a sign of “civilizations collapsing.”Rogan’s comments came while he and Peterson discussed what causes a person to be transgender, Media Matters reports.Peterson, who is no stranger to anti-transgender sentiments, claimed that it was a “sociological contagion” akin to the “satanic ritual abuse accusations that emerged in daycares in the 1980s” — referencing the “satanic panic” of the ’80s and ’90s in which false allegations were made of occult child abuse in day care centers.He added that he was opposed to Canada’s federal Bill C-16, which added gender identity to the country’s human rights protections.“I knew full well as a clinician that as soon as we messed with fundamental sex categories and changed the terminology, we would fatally confuse thousand of young girls,” Peterson said. “I knew that because I knew the literature on sociological contagion.”Rogan responded by pointing to anti-transgender author Abigail Shrier, who previously appeared on his podcast in July 2020.He referenced Shrier’s claims of so-called “rapid onset.
