Gender on the Joe Rogan Experience
15 fact-checked claims across 5 episodes · Nov 2016 to Jan 2024 · updated Jul 29, 2026
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- Jordan Peterson (8)
- Dr. Debra Soh (7)
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“built built into the laws like bill Bill C-16 in Canada now, and the same in the laws in New York City that govern the use of these gender pronouns. Built into…”
Peterson claims Bill C-16 and New York City pronoun laws have written into them the idea that identity has no biological foundation and is purely subjective.
“And so you'd see all this coverage of young kids who had transitioned to the opposite sex. And their parents were elated. The kids were doing so well, apparent…”
Soh claims research shows most gender-dysphoric children will outgrow their feelings rather than remain trans, implying transition coverage is misleading.
“And so if we look at something like I was saying earlier about if it's a little boy who says he's a girl, he's likely going to grow up to be a gay man. You can…”
Soh claims every scientific study ever done supports the conclusion that boys who identify as girls will likely grow up to be gay men rather than trans.
“cited the studies that showed why people choose different professions, why people gravitate towards different activities and different professions based on gen…”
Soh claims the fired Google engineer James Damore's memo cited legitimate studies on gender differences in occupational preferences and was mischaracterized by media as anti-woman.
“He was a professor who taught transgender studies at the University of Toronto. And yeah, he said outright that there were no biological differences between me…”
Peterson claims a University of Toronto professor of transgender studies stated on a TV program that scientific consensus holds there are no biological differences between men and women.
“There was one meta-analysis, I believe it was of 27 studies that did show for people who have transitioned that they do experience a lessening of feelings of g…”
Soh cites a meta-analysis of 27 studies showing that people who medically transition experience reduced gender dysphoria and improved life satisfaction.
“So there are two genders. And so gender, for 99% of us, our biological sex is our gender. Biological sex is determined by gametes, which are either eggs or spe…”
Soh claims sex/gender is strictly binary for 99% of people because biological sex is defined by gamete type, with no intermediate gametes.
“one study showed that among millennials about 10 percent identify as a third gender so this includes you know non-binary gender neutral you know a gender”
Soh claims a study found about 10% of millennials identify as a third gender, including non-binary or genderqueer identities.
“Just the things I've said about gender dysphoria, saying that it's associated with autism. Not for everyone, of course, but just saying that for many people. A…”
Soh claims gender dysphoria is associated with autism for many people, and that studies support this as a legitimate link.
“then I looked at the YouTube stats, and 70% of people who listened to YouTube were males”
Peterson claims that 70% of YouTube's audience is male, citing this as an explanation for his own audience skew.
“10% of men are as feminine in their personality as the average woman is. And vice versa, 10% of women are as masculine in their personality as the average man …”
Peterson claims that exactly 10% of men have personality traits as feminine as the average woman, and vice versa for women.
“if you look at teenagers, for example, who want to switch genders, 95% of them are unbearably confused.”
Peterson claims that 95% of teenagers who currently want to switch genders are simply confused rather than experiencing genuine gender dysphoria.
“the most reliable difference that psychologists have ever found between men and women, the biggest difference, is interest. So women are reliably more interest…”
Peterson claims that the largest and most reliable psychological sex difference ever documented is a 'people vs. things' interest difference, at about one standard deviation.
“certainly in New York and the employment EEOC has already ruled on that with regards to businesses for the US.”
Peterson claims the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has already ruled that businesses must use invented gender pronouns.
“It's 20 to 1 female to male nurses and 20 to 1 male to female engineers.”
Peterson claims that in Scandinavian countries, which have maximized equal opportunity, the gender ratio is 20-to-1 female-to-male among nurses and 20-to-1 male-to-female among engineers.