“If you’re a middle-class or upper-middle-class white parent and all you care about is whether your kid goes to Harvard or Yale, frankly, that path has become much more difficult for many upper-middle-class people. Vance, a Yale Law School graduate , said on “The Joe Rogan Epxerience,” adding that the only way to gain an advantage in admissions to elite universities is to be “transgender” or “gender non-binary.”

Vance, the lieutenant senator from Ohio, did not provide any evidence for this claim.

“Like many things Vance has said, there is zero evidence that Vance’s claims are true,” Sarah Kate Ellis, president of the advocacy group GLAAD, said in a statement.

“Being transgender is actually a barrier for many students to apply to colleges. More than 20 states have bans or restrictions on health care best practices for transgender youth, making it even more difficult to find a college in a state that respects transgender lives and protects access to health care “They need health services,” he added. “These dangerous and absurd comments are the same harmful, completely fabricated rhetoric that is central to Vance himself and the disinformation he continues to spread.”