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Megyn Kelly went after a sports columnist whom she referred to as a “national disgrace” during her SiriusXM show on Monday over the writer’s support for a women’s college basketball coach who came out in support of biological men playing in the league.
Kelly singled out Nancy Armour after the columnist called South Carolina Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley a “goddamn national treasure” for supporting transgender basketball players.
“If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play,” Staley said in a pause-filled response to a question about whether she supported biological males playing against females in sports. “That’s my opinion.”
That infuriated Kelly, who has become an advocate of keeping biological men out of women’s sports and vice versa.
“There’s this columnist over at USA Today, sports, Nancy Armour, who’s a repeat violator of women’s rights,” Kelly began.
“You’re a goddamn national disgrace, Madam, because you have a pen in a very large newspaper, dwindling though by the day, and you too could stand up for women, but you’re too cowardly to do it. And you know why? You’re not a mother. You don’t have to worry about your daughter having to face some six-foot-four man out on the basketball court like I do. So I don’t want to hear from you,” Kelly continued.
“Nancy Armour’s bio, she calls herself a proud aunt of three boys – she doesn’t even have nieces – and she says, ‘I don’t have all the answers, but I’m always looking for more of them.’ I’ve got one for you, Nancy. Shut the f**k up until you know what you’re talking about because girls are getting hurt by male basketball players posing as girls,” Kelly went on.
The host then queued up a video of a local high school girl’s basketball game featuring a tall biological male who injured an opposing female player by taking the ball away from her.
“I take you out to Massachusetts, where Lowell was playing in a game, the Lowell school was playing in a game, and they had to call it at the half because three players got hurt. Look at this girl in the black shirt go down. That’s a man pretending to be a girl who took the ball from her. Look at her. You watch this, Nancy, Dawn! You two watch this! Look at her writhing in pain after she was injured by a boy pretending to be a girl,” Kelly said.
She concluded: “I’m so sick of these women who are so terrified of the woke mob.”
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Last month, Kelly shared some heartfelt apologies with her podcast audience while also commending Caitlyn Jenner for speaking out about preventing trans athletes from competing in sports competitions with those of the opposite biological sex.
Jenner, formerly Bruce Jenner, a champion Olympic swimmer and outspoken conservative who transitioned in 2015, has railed against biological men competing in all-female sporting events, stating they should only be allowed to compete against other men.
“Caitlyn Jenner is out there every day tweeting about this kind of thing. Caitlin understands how unfair this is,” the journalist alleged in a segment during her Thursday podcast of “The Megyn Kelly Show.” “It’s not about trans people.”
“I think most trans people probably agree with us,” Kelly claimed, per OK! magazine. “It’s just the few who try to take advantage of sport, and it’s always a male-to-female trans person. It’s never the other way around. Why? Because we’re the ones who can be taken advantage of.”
In addition, Kelly criticized herself for remarks she had made about the use of pronouns and transgender children before appearing to tear up over the subject.
“I’m kind of emotional about it because look at this poor girl [Isabelle Ayala] and what was done to her,” Kelly explained in reference to a Florida teen who transitioned to male when she was 14 years old and is now suing the American Academy of Pediatrics.
“I realize now I was part of this problem. My heart was in the right place. I wasn’t trying to push anything bad on kids,” said Kelly. “I thought I was being supportive of them. I thought I was promoting anti-bullying. And now I just have such regret about it.”
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