Controversial quarterback Aaron Rodgers raised concerns over the increasing presence of biological males in women’s sports, calling the movement “anti-woman” and pointing to the damage it has done to fairness in athletic competition.
Rodgers made his remarks during a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, where he and the titular host dissected the biological realities that, they argue, make transgender participation in women’s sports fundamentally unfair.
Rogan opened the segment by alleging that “700 women were robbed of gold medals across various sports,” suggesting that biological males identifying as female have tilted the competitive landscape.
“These biological men pretended to be women and identified as women and dominated in women’s sports,” he said. “They have a giant advantage. Stop pretending they don’t.”
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Rodgers didn’t mince words about what he thinks of the phenomenon, declaring, “The trans woman movement is actually anti-woman.”
He doubled down, arguing that the disparity in performance is rooted in biology and calling the movement a “slap in the face to women’s athletics.”
“You’re not seeing trans men dominating anything,” Rodgers said, referring to biological females who identify as male. “It’s because there’s a biological difference.”
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Rogan agreed, maintaining that women should be “protected” in sports and “should only have to compete against other biological women.” He added, “It’s not bigoted to say.”
Rodgers circled back to the same point, that transgender males do not win in men’s sports.
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Rogan pointed out that female athletes transitioning to male must take testosterone, a substance typically banned in professional sports.
“You can’t take it, so are you going to let them take it and you won’t let older athletes take it? That sounds crazy. That doesn’t make any sense,” he remarked.
“So if you get a 39-year-old athlete who has low testosterone, you won’t let him take it, but you let a woman take it to become a man? Shut the f*** up.”
Mocking the push to deny basic science, Rogan pointed to chromosomes—“XX and XY”—as the simple scientific reality being ignored.
Rodgers quipped back, “Way too much common sense,” highlighting the ridiculousness of the current debate.
He went on to challenge the intellectual integrity of those driving transgender advocacy, especially in athletic contests.
“The people who you’re asking those questions, who are not able to answer whether or not there’s a decided advantage, can’t even define what a woman is,” he said.
He also noted how the public is often dissuaded from critically analyzing the issue.
“Don’t do your own research … trust the experts,” he said about pushing the public “not to care” about the biological disparity.
The controversy isn’t limited to professional sports. Recent high school competitions have provided real-world examples fueling the debate.
In California, a biological male student-athlete won both the long jump and triple jump at a major track and field meet, beating out top female competitors by wide margins last weekend.
Reese Hogan, a female athlete who broke her personal and school record with a triple jump of 37 feet, 2 inches, still finished second to the transgender competitor by four feet.
Despite the outcome, Hogan drew applause online for briefly standing on the first-place podium spot after the official winner stepped off.
When the boy got off the podium, she assumed her rightful spot as champion. The crowd erupts with applause.
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“When the boy got off the podium, she assumed her rightful spot as champion,” wrote former NCAA swimmer and women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines on X.
“The crowd erupts with applause. THIS is the way. Congrats to Reese Hogan, the REAL champ!!!”
Katie McGuinness, another high school athlete who competed in the same meet, voiced her own frustration.
“I just can’t stand for that,” McGuinness said, referring to competing against biological males.
McGuinness described her mindset going into the competition: “I remember thinking to myself, ‘OK, I need to get a big jump.’”
After landing an 18.9-foot jump and losing to the same biological male, she said, “That was it. And I was honestly very discouraged … I wasn’t able to compete with someone who was genetically different than me.”
“There are just certain genetic advantages that biological males have that biological girls don’t,” she added. “Frankly, I just can’t stand for that.”
This controversy comes amid political tension over transgender policies in schools and sports, particularly in blue states like California that have ignored President Donald Trump’s executive order intended to keep biological males out of female athletics.
Former NFL linebacker and Hall of Famer Brian Urlacher has also weighed in on the issue, stating he wouldn’t tolerate his own daughter being subjected to this new athletic landscape.
“I would raise hell about it,” Urlacher declared when asked how he’d react if his daughter had to compete against a biological male.
“I just don’t get it, it’s a common sense thing,” he continued. “I just don’t see how you can push this and make someone think they’re a different sex.”
“Why is it even a debate? A woman is a woman and a man is a man… you’re born with what you’re born with,” he questioned. “It’s just different because we are men, there are certain things we do better than women, and it’s just, No 1, it’s not fair.”