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The former Fox News host Megyn Kelly spoke out on Monday to blast the Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley for refusing to say if a man can become a woman.
Kelly Shuts Down Haley
During Monday’s episode of her eponymous SiriusXM talk show, Kelly played a clip in which Haley was asked “Can a man become a woman?” during a town hall in Iowa on Sunday.
“There’s been a lot that’s been talked about when it comes to, um, all of these roles and all of these issues,” Haley replied. “I strongly believe that we should not allow any gender change surgeries to anyone before the age of 18. Period.”
“We — kids now, can’t get a tattoo until they’re 18,” she continued. “We shouldn’t have them permanently change their body until they’re 18. And that includes puberty blockers. That includes any sort of hormones that would do that. After the age of 18 — we want to make sure people can live any way they want to.”
Kelly, however, was not having any of it.
“That’s a dodge,” Kelly said response to Haley’s comments. “The answer’s no.”
Kelly’s guest Dave Rubin agreed with her, pointing out that sex change surgeries do not change the patient’s gender.
“If I chopped my wang off live while we were doing this live, that wouldn’t make me a woman, and if you chopped some tissue off your arm and gave yourself one, that wouldn’t make you a man,” Rubin said. “I’m sorry, I know it’s a little early in the day. I’ve been under a lot of pressure with this caucus thing, but you get the point.”
Kelly could not help but laugh at this.
“Oh my god, this is like an X-rated show. Wangs and caucuses,” she said.
Check out their full comments in the video below.
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Kelly previously talked to The Washington Examiner about the transgender issue, saying that children are the ones “paying the price” with the uptick in young people identifying as trans and undergoing medical procedures such as hormone replacement therapy at early ages.
“It’s exploded from a very small niche mental health issue into something that is a social justice dangerous contagion that is leading to sterility,” Kelly said, going on to detail “the voluntary removal of healthy body parts [and] removal of custody from well-meaning parents who love their children” occurring as a result of this social movement.
“I really see this as the women’s rights issue of our time,” she said.
Kelly revealed in June of last year that though she was once protective of transgender people, she will no longer be using “preferred pronouns” because of how out of control this movement has gotten.
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Haley Sounds Off On Transgender Issue
Last month, Haley said that she will “always fight” against biological boys playing girls sports.
“They can find a place for trans kids to play sports, but biological boys should not be playing in girls’ sports,” Haley said, according to The Advocate. “My daughter ran track in high school. I don’t know how I would even have that conversation with her. How do we tell our girls that it’s OK to have a biological boy in their locker room? It’s not. In no scenario.”
“You’ve got women who have worked so hard all their life to really get to points in high school and college where they want to, and to have a biological man, who’s physiologically different, athletically, go and take that away from those women, no, we’re not gonna erase the women like that,” she continued. “You can’t do that. You can find other ways of dealing with this, but it doesn’t have to be on the backs of our girls, who we’re trying to make strong. It’s the wrong thing to do, and I’ll always fight against that.”
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