Joe Rogan on Lia Thomas: UFC commentator rages at length about trans athlete competing in Olympics
UFC commentator, podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan shared his thoughts about trans athlete Lia Thomas.
Lia Thomas is the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division 1 championship in any sport. She accomplished this feat in March 2022. However, she has been at the center of a raging debate surrounding transgender athletes competing and potentially having unfair advantages over biological women.
Addressing that during a recent episode of his podcast, the Joe Rogan Experience, the UFC commentator went off on Lia Thomas. He said:
"This trans athlete thing f**king blows my mind, how many people go along with this. It just blows my mind. Swimming, I mean that Lia Thomas is still the number one swimmer in the world and it’s a biological male. Period. End of discussion. It’s madness. And not only that, hasn’t even gotten penis removed and has sex with women apparently. The whole thing is so crazy that you can call yourself a woman and then you’re a woman. And like, this has nothing to do with trans rights. It just has to do with humans.”
Watch Joe Rogan's comments in the video below:
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Further in the same video, Rogan also suggested that it is unfair for biological women who train as hard as they can to compete against someone who went through male puberty.
He said:
"Imagine if you’re a biological woman, you are working your as* off. You are fully dedicated to being the best of the best. You’re dotting all your I’s and crossing all your T’s. You are watching your diet. You are watching your recovery. You are fu*king trying. And this person who just decides they’re a woman with testosterone flowing through their body for their entire life just dominates you. It’s fu*king maddening."
It is worth noting that World Athletics has taken a major step towards countering what many have branded a problem. It was recently revealed that transgender women will be banned from competing in female competitions if they have undergone male puberty.
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Seb Coe, the president of World Athletics, acknowledged that the verdict would be controversial. However, he asserted that the decision has been made to protect the future of the female category in sports.