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CV NEWS FEED // Journalist Megyn Kelly, a self-described “early proponent” of using so-called “preferred” pronouns, has announced that she will permanently switch to using ones that are biologically correct.
Kelly is currently the host of the popular news podcast The Megyn Kelly Show, which is broadcast on SiriusXM radio and streamed on multiple platforms. A lawyer and journalist for two decades, she previously hosted The Kelly File on FOX News and Megyn Kelly Today on NBC.
“It is June 2, and that means it is officially Pride Month,” Kelly stated Friday at the beginning of her show’s opening monologue.
She then showed a recent cover of Glamour magazine featuring a pregnant woman who believes herself to be a man. “I, for one, will not be celebrating this dishonesty,” Kelly said. “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 using ‘preferred pronouns.’”
The veteran journalist recounted her long history of using biologically incorrect pronouns starting in the early 2000s. She admitted that for a while, she was “saying ‘she’ when I knew the truth was ‘he,’” adding, “It seemed harmless, and I had no wish to cause offense… so I complied, I went along with it, I didn’t see the harm.”
Kelly further confessed that in 2018, while employed by NBC, she hosted a show featuring 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.”
Kelly went on to say,
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.
Kelly said that a turning point that caused her to reconsider her beliefs was during another episode of her show, in which she discussed the debate over men participating in women’s sports with a pro-LGBTQ medical professional.
When I slipped and said that “trans” girls were biological males, this person told me that was offensive. I explained that it was an attempt at clarity, but began to rethink the language policing.
Why did I have to deny reality in order to be polite?
Around that time, Kelly also observed that her son and his third-grade classmates were “regularly asked if they were sure they were still boys.”
Kelly and her husband eventually pulled their children out of the New York City school system, “fleeing the woke ideology on gender and race that seemed closer to abuse than academics.”
She continued,
We moved to Connecticut in 2021, and that was the day the floodgates really opened. Hardly a day went by over the next two years without another story in the news of the “trans” madness sweeping the nation.
Female inmates being raped by male sex offenders who have conveniently declared themselves “trans” right before heading to prison. Female cyclists losing titles to grown men who declared themselves “trans” and absconded with the prize money. Professional psychiatric associations adopting “gender-confirming care” as the only acceptable option for children suffering from any hint of gender confusion. A boy in a dress sexually assualting a girl in a Virginia school bathroom while administrators covered it up.
For nearly the next two minutes, Kelly listed other headlines that played a role in her change of heart on the issue.
And then came Lia Thomas, an obvious male towering over his female competitors, crushing them in the pool by several body lengths. The spectacle of this swimmer … was, for many of us, the last straw.
Kelly was visibly incensed while describing the frustration of Thomas’ female teammates and competitors being forced to share a locker room with him, with them being told to seek therapy or just “deal with it.”
“There I was, along with millions of others, watching and learning and finally seeing it,” Kelly said tearfully. “There is the harm. There’s the harm,” she repeated. “There’s the harm.”
It is beyond time to stand up to the “trans” lobby that means to deprive women of their spaces and rights.
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How can we stand up to any of this if we are complicit? How can we stand up for facts if we participate in this fiction that a man can become a woman.
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It doesn’t make sense because it isn’t true. And we know it’s not true. And to pretend that it is true is to foster a lie that is hurting too many people, almost all of them girls. Women and girls.
They say pronouns are a gateway drug. They open the door to these lies that lead to real harm to real females.
“For these reasons,” Kelly concluded, “I will not take this gateway drug anymore because I have a daughter; because I am a woman, an adult human female.”
On the same day as this monologue, Kelly also shared a tweet from The Daily Wire promoting the one-year anniversary of their film “What is a Woman.”
She encouraged her followers to watch it, calling the Matt Walsh documentary “amazing, enlightening, important and brave.”
