by Harold Hutchison
Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio said during a Thursday interview with podcaster Joe Rogan that he and former President Donald Trump could win the “normal gay guy” vote.
Vance sat down with Rogan for over three hours less than a week after Trump did a three-hour interview with the influential podcaster. Vance said that “normal” gay men would object to sex change procedures for children.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump won just the normal gay guy vote,” Vance told Rogan. “Because, again, they just want to be left the hell alone, and now you have all this crazy stuff on top of it.”
“They’re like, ‘No, no… we didn’t want to give pharmaceutical products to nine-year-olds who are transitioning their genders, we just want to be left the hell alone,’” Vance continued.
Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy revealed to The New York Times that she did not publish the results of a $9.7 million study on the effects of puberty blockers on children because she feared the results would boost arguments made by opponents of sex-change procedures for children.
“Well, a lot of gay guys feel like the whole movement is homophobic, which is ironic because they think, they think that there’s people [that] think there’s something wrong with being gay,” Rogan said. “So what you really are is a girl and they think a lot of this is being given, these thoughts are being given to these kids. These kids would grow just up to be gay men, but instead you’re getting them to convert their gender.”
“It’s pharmaceutical conversion therapy,” Vance responded, with Rogan adding, “And it’s profitable.”
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons officially opposed sex change surgeries for minors in August, becoming the first major medical association to do so, NewsNation reported. The United Kingdom banned the use of puberty blockers in July, as European countries are backing away from immediately pushing children into so-called “gender-affirming care.”
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging a Tennessee law that prohibited certain child sex change procedures in June, with a decision expected in the late spring or summer of 2025.
Some detransitioners, including Chloe Cole, who transitioned as a teenager before stopping, have filed lawsuits against medical professionals who carried out so-called “gender-affirming” procedures.
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Harold Hutchison is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
Image “Joe Rogan and JD Vance” by Joe Rogan Experience.
