Megyn Kelly, host of SiriusXM, made an emotional announcement to her viewers that she will no longer use “preferred pronouns.”

Kelly began a segment on an episode of her popular podcast by citing instances of violence against women who defy what she termed the “trans lobby that seeks to deprive women of their spaces and rights.”

Kelly stated that for many years she never saw a problem with a person using whichever pronouns they desired, but that things are very different today. According to the New York Post, Kelly spoke about the case of Kellie-Jay Keen Minshull, who was covered in tomato juice and pelted by crowds, during a visit to New Zealand, where she warned about the transgender movement’s negative influence on women.

Kelly then appeared to have a catch in her voice and tears in her eyes as she stated, “There is the harm” There is the damage.”

“I was an early proponent of using preferred pronouns as far back as the early 2000s. 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 by the nature of their dysphoria and society’s disdain for them in general. So I complied. I went along with it,” she said.

“I didn’t see the harm,” she said. “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 2020, Kelly stated that her views had changed.

“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. 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 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?” Kally asked.

“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.

Kelly argued that she supports sports categories for transgender athletes, but she does not support males competing against women or adolescents undergoing significant body alterations.

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“Why did I have to deny reality in order to be polite…”@Megynkelly explains why she will no longer use “preferred pronouns” as trans ideology grows.

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