Political commentator and podcast host Megyn Kelly, who previously worked for Fox News and NBC News, revealed that she is done using “preferred pronouns.” Kelly was initially a supporter of using preferred pronouns, but now says this was a mistake.
“I was an early proponent of using preferred pronouns as far back as the early 2000s,” Kelly explained. “Of saying ‘she’ when I knew the truth was ‘he.’”
“It seemed harmless, and I had no wish to cause offense,” Kelly continued. “Trans people were tortured enough, it seemed to me, by nature of their dysphoria and society’s disdain for them in general.”
Kelly offered her gratitude to those who helped “open her eyes” to the truth. She views the national debate surrounding transgenderism as an ongoing culture war waged by left-wing social activists.
In recent years, it’s become increasingly popular, particularly for young people, to choose new words as their pronouns instead of the traditional “he/she,” which has been used for centuries.
“So I complied. I went along with it,” she said. “I didn’t see the harm. 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,’” she said.
“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,” she said.
In the emotional segment, Kelly says her views eventually evolved and she believes it’s time to stand up “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.”
Kelly believes Americans must stand up against “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.”
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“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. Was there any harm?”
“They say pronouns are a gateway drug. They open the door to these lies that lead to real harm to real females. They are a clever rhetorical trick that forces you to cede the argument about women’s spaces before you’ve even spoken one word of substance,” she said.
“I have resolved to base my conversations around gender on the same tenets that already govern my life: truth and reality. I will not use preferred pronouns, a decision motivated by a growing alarm over women’s rights and the safety of children,” she said.
“I will not take this gateway drug anymore. Because I have a daughter. Because I am a woman — an adult human female. Because for far too long, I failed to see the harm and therefore helped cause it,” she said, adding, “To the women and men who helped open my eyes, thank you,” she concluded.
