Media personality Megyn Kelly slammed a feminist group’s claim that transgender women are women, saying it is “abandoning reality.”
Kelly took exception to a tweet from Women’s March that stated, “Trans women are women. That’s it. That’s the tweet.”
“No they aren’t,” Kelly responded. “There are massive differences between women and trans women. We can be respectful to people while not abandoning reality.”
During her SiriusXM The Megyn Kelly Show earlier this week, Kelly similarly blasted the University of Pennsylvania when she called Lia Thomas’s NCAA Woman of the Year nomination “a disgrace.”
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“Lia Thomas is not a woman,” Kelly said. “Lia Thomas is a trans woman who lived the first 20 years of her life as Will Thomas, a man. She only decided to transition in 2020, after swimming three seasons as a middling competitor on the men’s team, ranking in the mid-500s. On the woman’s team, the very next year, ranked No. 1.”
Kelly also noted the differences that characterized the path taken by biological female swimmers.
“They swam with growing breasts, growing hips, more fat on their bodies, less upper body strength than their male competitors,” Kelly stated. “They swam with shorter legs … thinner and weaker muscles than the boys. They swam with periods, and cramps, and bloating.”
Following Thomas’s nomination, the Independent Council on Women’s Sports tweeted its condemnation of Thomas’s nomination: “Women deserve fair competition and acknowledgment that the best collegiate female athletes are not male.”
“There is a biological difference between men and women,” said Marshi Smith, former NCAA champion swimmer and co-founder of ICONS Women. “If we can’t agree that that foundational truth is a reality, then how can we protect our girls and women? And you know, this nomination is not only affecting women swimmers at this point, but it encompasses all athletics.”
