JD Vance touched on a variety of topics during his three-plus hour conversation with Joe Rogan published Thursday.

On the subject of transgender rights, Vance was strongly opposed to the idea of ​​athletes competing on teams corresponding to their gender identity, saying he feared his own daughter would one day be “bludgeoned to death because we allow one man six feet one meter tall. to compete with her in sports.

Vance too suggested that parents could allow their children to make the transition to have better university prospects:

“If you’re a white middle-class or upper-middle-class parent, and the only thing you care about is whether your child goes to Harvard or Yale, then obviously that journey has become much more difficult . for a lot of upper-middle-class kids,” Mr. Vance told Mr. Rogan. “But the only way these people can participate in the DEI bureaucracy in this country is if they are trans.”

The senator also indicated that he could hold anti-vaccine trendsa growing trend in conservative spaces:

“The moment I really started to get interested in this whole vaccine thing was that I have been the sickest in the last 15 years by far 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 pounding.”

He added: “Being as sick as ever lasted 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 connect everyone’s politics to his own interests. testosterone level:

“Well, have you seen all these studies that basically link testosterone levels in young men to conservative politics? So, maybe that’s what’s happening… Maybe that’s why the Democrats want us all to be, you know, unhealthy and overweight, because that means you’re going to be – no , that 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 date Hunter Bidenclaiming he would bet money that Hunter and Joe Biden both voted for Trump:

“The only thing that Republicans, man, I think we’ve really gotten wrong on over the last few years is the anti-Hunter Biden stuff. I want to date Hunter Biden! I mean, I might be the only Republican. This guy knows how to have a good time.