BALTIMORE, Md. -- There are a number of topics unrelated to any particular UFC event that still manage to crawl into and embed themselves as the key signpost of conversation. At the post-media day scrum with UFC President Dana White on Thursday, the seemingly perennial issue of Ronda Rousey fueding through the media with former Strikeforce women's featherweight champion Cyborg Justino filled just that role.

Recently, Rousey told Yahoo Sports she believed Justino would be someone serviceable as an opponent despite years of what she believed were abuse of performance-enhancing drugs. "This girl has been on steroids for so long and [has been] injecting herself for so long that she's not even a woman anymore. She's an 'it.' It's not good for the women's division. It's not good at all," Rousey said.

When asked about the comment, which treads on notions of female identity, White was quick to defend Rousey's position to the media in attendance.

"There was a reporter in Canada who said he was going to call GLAAD [Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation] to see how they felt about it. Are you a f--king idiot?," White asked the media. "First of all, she's not a transgender fighter. She's a woman, OK? What Ronda's saying is, she's taken so many drugs that she's probably not a woman anymore. She's not a transgender fighter. She didn't have a surgery. What a moron."

When pressed on whether White had any issue with the insensitivity of Rousey's comment, White was unequivocal.

"I think that this is the fight business and people say mean things about each other," he said. "Is it not true? She got busted for taken winstrol. The same drug Ben Johnson took and many other athletes took, to do what? To cheat. Ronda called her a f--king cheater."

I responded to White that calling someone an it and a cheater don't amount to the same thing. White agreed, but ultimately suggested this was a matter of semantics.

"She called her an it. [Cyborg] calls Ronda a chicken. Should Ronda be offended at being called a chicken? Grow the f--k up, everybody."

Still, White said his own feelings about Cyborg, from a physical appearance perspective, don't deviate much from the core of Rousey's 'it' insult.

"I said, when I saw [Justino] at the MMA Awards, she looked like Wanderlei Silva in a dress and heels. And she did, did she not? Who wants to dispute that she didn't look like Wanderlei?

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