Originally Posted by
MD
I'm not sure if you're talking about the same thing I am, and as such I'm not going to presume you are, but if you're talking about the OP, I agree 100%.
More research needs to be done before a biological male (however you define that; there have been female Olympians with Y chromosomes who were born as females) can compete against a biological female with the expectation being that the male has no significant advantage as a result of their original gender. When I first heard about this, my girlfriend asked me what I thought; I said "I lean towards being against it, but I don't have the facts to make an educated opinion. It's too sensitive a topic to just blurt out bullshit with no basis."
Sure enough, the residents of the interwebz have no problem blurting out uneducated bullshit, as was expected. Joe Rogan is a guy I'm a fan of, but he can be a pretty ignorant guy, and he has no problem spouting uneducated opinions when he feels like it.
Here's what Dr. Sherman Leis, a transgendered health specialist had to say about the matter:
The idea of a transgendered man fighting a woman is obviously a thing that's going to spark some initial disagreement, but the sheer ignorance of most of the people in this thread, and Joe Rogan himself, is baffling. If you have a problem with the idea, as I did, fine, but at least educate yourself as to what advantage they will actually have before stating your baseless opinions.