Joe Rogan calls out trans swimmer Lia Thomas during podcast

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Joe Rogan dove into the controversy surrounding transgender swimmer Lia Thomas — and it’s surprising it took him this long.

“What it is now is an assault on women’s sports,” Rogan said to comedian Yannis Pappas during a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.

The polarizing University of Pennsylvania swimmer has broken several women’s records since transitioning from a male to a female.

“And the idea that anyone would think it’s fair that someone who was number 4-6-2 as a man, 462 in the nation, is number 1 as a women a year later. And that’s fair?”

Chatter surrounding Thomas surfaced in December when she swam the fastest-ever women’s time in the 200-metre free swim.

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She followed that up by breaking the record in the 500-yard freestyle in February.

It’s that dominance that Rogan called unfair, and people – specifically, women forced to swim against Thomas – are becoming increasingly frustrated.

“That might be the woke straw that breaks society’s camel’s back,” Rogan mused.

“It’s not fair, no matter what anybody says,” he continued. “There’s this nonsense idea of, like ‘Well, there’s outliers.’ There are outliers and then there are biological males.”

He added: “There’s a reason why we have a distinction between men’s and women’s sports.”

The current rules for athletes who have transitioned or are transitioning from male to female requires athletes to undergo at least one year of testosterone suppression treatment before competing on a women’s team.

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Thomas, who competed on the men’s team for three years, has reportedly been receiving treatment for nearly three years.

That said, her denouncers continue to rage about her physical advantages. That includes Riley Gaines, the swimmer who tied with Thomas for fifth place in the NCAA Championships a few weeks ago.

Because the tournament only had one fifth-place trophy, it was given to Thomas while Gaines was told hers would come in the mail, the swimmer told Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn on the politician’s podcast, Unmuted with Marsha, the New York Post reported.

“The majority of us female athletes – or females in general, really – are not OK with this, and they’re not OK with the trajectory of this and how this is going and how it could end up in a couple of years.”