Joe Rogan goes off on transgender feminine athletes competing in opposition to organic ladies: ‘It’s f—ing maddening’

Joe Rogan sounded off on transgender athletes, particularly transgender ladies competing in opposition to organic ladies in sports activities, within the newest episode of his podcast on Tuesday.

Rogan was speaking with doctor Peter Attia on “The Joe Rogan Experience” concerning the bodily dimension {of professional} athletes. The comic identified that “equality doesn’t exist bodily,” which led him to segue into the current emergence of transgender athletes in sports activities.

“It’s why we’ve weight lessons. It’s why we must always have the distinction between females and males competing in opposition to one another, which is why this trans athlete factor f—ing blows my thoughts – how many individuals go together with this?” Rogan mentioned. “It simply blows my thoughts.”

Lia Thomas seems on from the rostrum after ending fifth within the 200-yard freestyle in the course of the NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming & Diving Championship on March 18, 2022, in Atlanta. (Mike Comer/NCAA Photos through Getty Images)

Rogan introduced up Lia Thomas and the way she gained the ladies’s 500 free on the NCAA Swimming Championships for the University of Pennsylvania.

“Swimming, I imply that Lia Thomas continues to be the primary swimmer on this planet and it’s a organic male. Period. End of debate. It’s insanity. And not solely that, hasn’t even gotten – penis eliminated and has intercourse with ladies apparently,” Rogan mentioned. “Just, the entire thing is so loopy you could name your self a girl and you then’re a girl. And like, this has nothing to do with trans rights. It simply has to do with people.

“There’s a motive why we make a distinction why males are actually allowed to compete within the ladies’s division. If you may simply determine you’re a girl, and also you compete in a ladies’s division, and nobody’s even allowed to manage like what which means and if in case you have any downside with that you simply’re transphobic. It has nothing to do with transphobia. We’re speaking about equity in sports activities. It’s loopy. It is totally loopy that that is nonetheless happening.”

Joe Rogan wears many hats as a podcast host, standup comic and UFC commentator. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

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Rogan, Attia and producer Jamie Vernon talked about final yr’s FINA ruling that might solely allow swimmers who transitioned from male to feminine earlier than the age of 12 to compete in occasions. World Athletics just lately handed an identical ruling in observe and area competitions.

“It’s simply what they’ve executed to these different ladies which can be competing in opposition to her is only a f—ing crime,” he mentioned. “It’s horrible. Imagine should you’re a organic girl, you’re working you’re a– off. You are totally devoted to being the perfect of the perfect. You’re dotting all of your I’s and crossing all of your T’s. You are watching your weight-reduction plan. You are watching your restoration. You are f—ing making an attempt. And this one who simply decides they’re a girl with testosterone flowing via their physique for his or her complete life – simply dominates you. It’s f—ing maddening.”

Penn’s Lia Thomas waits to swim in a qualifying warmth on the Ivy League Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships at Harvard University, Feb. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

Rogan mentioned there are many different points to come back to grips with than one other tradition struggle.

“We are a society that wants an actual downside,” he added. “We are fixating on these f—ing very unusual points and deciding that we’re gonna right all of the inequities and inequality on this planet by permitting these folks to precise their reality. You’re encouraging psychological sickness. You’re encouraging virtue-signaling. You’re encouraging mass ideology – this ideological seize of a whole tradition the place folks know issues aren’t true. You realize it’s not proper. You realize it’s not correct. You realize it’s not scientifically true and but folks need to espouse these sure issues as a result of in the event that they don’t they’ll be labeled transphobic. It’s f—ing wild.”