SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly on Friday explained her journey from being a “proponent” of preferred pronouns to realizing it was a gateway drug to genital mutilation.
And that is the subject of today’s opening – Why I’m done with preferred pronouns…
I was an early proponent of using preferred pronouns as far back as the early 2000’s. Of saying “she” when I knew the truth was “he.” It seemed harmless and I had no wish to cause offense. Trans people were tortured enough, it seemed to me, by naturSiriusXM host Megyn Kelly on Friday explained her journey from being a “proponent” of preferred pronouns to realizing it was a gateway drug to genital mutilation.
MEGYN KELLY: I for one will not be celebrating this dishonesty. In fact, I’m in a very different place when it comes to this entire issue.
And that is the subject of today’s opening – Why I’m done with preferred pronouns…
MEGYN KELLY: I for one will not be celebrating this dishonesty. In fact, I’m in a very different place when it comes to this entire issue.e of their dysphoria and society’s disdain for them in general. So I complied. I went along with it.
I didn’t see the harm.
By 2016 we were debating bills to stop trans access to certain bathrooms which I covered from the news desk, siding with the trans community. How does it affect our lives as women if here or there a trans person uses a stall in our bathroom? These people aren’t bothering anyone – why wouldn’t we accommodate them?
I didn’t see the harm.
In 2018 while at NBC, I hosted shows on trans people, one of which had a segment on “trans kids.”
I led the audience in cheering for them, encouraging them to own who they are.
I used approved terms like “gender affirming care” for medicinal gender manipulations, “cis” to refer to natural born women and men, “assigned male at birth” instead of “born male.”
I smiled and listened politely as a guest told me “gender is just a social construct.”
I wanted to be supportive of those who were suffering. I would use this more evolved language.
I didn’t see the harm.
By the time we began The Megyn Kelly Show podcast in September 2020, the warning signs were everywhere.
Abigail Shrier had written her beautiful and immensely important book, “Irreversible Damage,” documenting the social contagion sweeping teenage and adolescent girls – a group that, traditionally, had very few members claiming gender dysphoria but was quickly on its way to having more than any other.
Teenage girls in Connecticut were losing on the track to males –
runners who had raced as boys the year before, then simply declared themselves female and dominated their new competitors.
I had the female runners on the show, along with a trans medical physicist who was also a former athlete to explain the advantages to trans athletes, especially post-puberty.
When I slipped and said the trans girls were “biological males,” this person told me that was offensive.
I explained that it was an attempt at clarity but began to re-think the language policing. Why did I have to deny reality in order to be polite? What I said was true and not offered to offend. But I wanted to be respectful.
It is beyond time to stand up to the trans lobby that means to deprive women of their spaces and rights. To the men who pose as trans women to gain access to places like sorority houses only to exploit the women strong-armed into welcoming them.
To the men who grow their hair long, throw on a dress, pop on their TikTok filter and then threaten to kill us if we object to them coming into our private spaces.
To the mutilation of our children by money-driven doctors and the rape of our imprisoned sisters and the theft of our medals and opportunities to win.
The facilities that allow it must be stopped or shut down.
Obey