J.D. Vance broached a variety of topics during his more than three-hour conversation with Joe Rogan released Thursday.
On the subject of transgender rights, Vance was strongly against the idea of athletes competing on teams matching their gender identity, saying that he worried about his own daughter one day being “bludgeoned to death because we’re allowing a six-foot-one male to compete with her in sports.”
Vance also suggested that parents might allow their kids to transition for the chance of better college prospects:
“If you are a, you know, middle-class or upper-middle-class white parent, and the only thing that you care about is whether your child goes into Harvard or Yale, like, obviously, that pathway has become a lot harder for a lot of upper-middle-class kids,” Mr. Vance told Mr. Rogan. “But the one way that those people can participate in the D.E.I. bureaucracy in this country is to be trans.”
The senator also indicated that he might hold some anti-vaccine tendencies, a growing trend in conservative spaces:
“The moment where I really started to get redpilled on the whole vax thing was, the sickest I had been in the last 15 years, by far, was when I took the vaccine,” Vance said. “I’ve had Covid at this point five times, I was in bed for two days, my heart was racing.”
He added, “The fact that I was as sick as I had ever been was two days, and the worst COVID experience I had was like a sinus infection. I’m not really willing to trade that.”
At one point, Vance sought to draw a connection between one’s politics and one’s testosterone level:
“Well, have you seen all these studies that basically connect testosterone levels in young men with conservative politics? So, maybe that’s what’s going on…Maybe that’s why the Democrats want us all to be, you know, poor health and overweight, because that means you’re going to be – no, it means we’re going to be more liberal, right? If you make people less healthy, they apparently become more politically liberal.”
Vance also joked that he wanted to hang out with Hunter Biden, saying that he would bet money that Hunter and Joe Biden both voted for Trump:
“The one thing that Republicans, man, that I think we got really wrong in the last few years is the anti-Hunter Biden stuff. I want to go hang out with Hunter Biden! I mean, I may be the only Republican. That dude knows how to have a good time.”
