In a recent episode of his podcast, Joe Rogan discussed the topic of transgender fighters in the UFC.
He was talking, with guests Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin, about diversity recruiting in the military forces…
And then spoke on how things might unfold if the UFC adopted similar criteria.
Here’s what he had to say:
Imagine if the UFC had to have diversity. Do you know what a problem that would be?
If they had to have like a certain amount of trans folks… If you had numbers you had to achieve, it wasn’t the best fighters, it was just like who can meet certain criteria.
There’s gonna be a bunch of people who get murdered.There’s gonna be a certain percentage of people who are there because they’re just awesome.
And a certain percentage of people that they have to hire to meet these DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion] standards.
He further explained with an example:
Imagine if the U.K. had one representative that was supposed to be fighting Francis Ngannou.
You have one person who’s supposed to step up and fight that guy and it says: “Well the right move is to send in a non-binary woman because they don’t get represented in the UFC.”
Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson on TRANS ATHLETES in WOMEN’S Sports pic.twitter.com/hvy4JyDQlT
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