Megyn Kelly scandalized Bill Maher’s Real Time audience Friday night with her graphic description of the gender transition procedures that have gained traction in recent years as an experimental offering for gender-confused children and teens.
In the sit-down interview with the late-night show host, Kelly explained that “what we’re doing to our children with this trans insanity” has become the most important political issue for her.
“We are chopping off the healthy body parts of young children,” the conservative commentator said. Audience members recoiled in their seats at the statement, to which Kelly responded, “Oh, 100 percent we are doing that.”
Maher agreed with his guest. “We are definitely doing that. That’s what it is. I don’t know what the ooing is about.”
Kelly proceeded to deliver what she called a “truth bomb” argument, detailing how children suffer “irreversible” harm after being encouraged down the gender-transition rabbit hole, which typically begins with puberty blockers, leads to cross-sex hormones, and culminates in surgery. She laid the blame on physicians who convince parents to sign off on the procedures or treatments.
“Kids, who are suffering from bullying or who have been sexually assaulted or who are going through normal puberty and feel uncomfortable in their bodies, will say to their parents, ‘I’m not sure, maybe I’m gender confused,'” Kelly said in her tirade. “They will send them into a psychiatrist or psychologist, who are told by our organizations, the American Psychiatry Association and all the others that run their licensing,” that gender affirmation “is the only standard.”
Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones “sterilize” children, depriving them “of any sexual pleasure for the rest of his or her life,” Kelly pointed out. She also took issue with informed consent, a legal yet disputed process that allows a minor to ask permission from their parent or guardian for a medical treatment.
Kelly noted the parents generally “mean well” but argued they shouldn’t trust the medical establishment when it comes to changing their child’s gender. The long-lasting effects are damaging, ultimately leading to poor mental health outcomes such as depression or anxiety, the independent journalist explained.
“They have changed their bodies forever in a way that is irreversible, and we are all sitting back saying, ‘It’s a remote issue,’ as Kamala Harris said. It’s not remote. It’s the issue of our time, both with respect to children and women’s rights.”
Megyn Kelly stuns the Bill Maher audience by laying out the facts about transitioning. After they recoil in disgust, Bill Maher corroborates Megyn Kelly ‘We are definitely doing that’:
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Kelly has spoken out fiercely against the medicalization of gender-dysphoric kids on her popular podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show. One of her most popular episodes features a frank description of how she woke up to the harms being inflicted on children in the name of gender ideology.
About 3.3 percent of high-school students identify as transgender and another 2.2 percent have questioned their gender identity, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The newly released figures were reported by the New York Times earlier this month.
For children ages 13 to 17, more are identifying as transgender at a higher rate than adults. About 1.4 percent of teenagers have identified as transgender in the U.S., according to a 2022 estimate from the Williams Institute. By contrast, about 0.5 percent of U.S. adults have done the same. Researchers believe the trend in minors identifying as transgender will grow even more over time.
Kelly then called transgenderism a “social contagion” when it affects children, but conceded that she understands why some people suffering from gender dysphoria, even some of her own relatives, have undergone a sex change.
“I have nothing against people who actually have gender dysphoria and are sincerely wrestling with that, and I would respect them and be kind to them, as I have been,” Kelly concluded. “This is a different issue. This is about children, and then it’s about women’s spaces in sports.”
There is little to no evidence that experimental gender procedures improve the mental health of gender-dysphoric children and teens.
The lead researcher of a government-funded study that began in 2015 admitted this week in an interview with the Times that the study did not support the claims of gender activists and explained that she had not released the data out of fear that opponents of gender medicalization would “weaponize” it.
The study, led by Johanna Olson-Kennedy, the medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, is now under investigation by congressional Republicans, National Review reported Thursday.