The Megyn Kelly Show - August 01, 2024


Deep Dive: Protecting the Integrity of Girls' and Women's Sports, with Jennifer Sey, Sage Steele, and Michele Tafoya | Ep. 853


Episode Stats

Length

31 minutes

Words per Minute

188.69284

Word Count

6,021

Sentence Count

469

Misogynist Sentences

38

Hate Speech Sentences

23


Summary

In this special episode of The Megyn Kelly Show, host Meghan Kelly sits down with three women who have been on the show before, but have not been on it as often, to discuss the importance of standing up for the protection of women's sports and spaces.


Transcript

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00:00:15.620 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
00:00:26.960 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly.
00:00:28.440 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.
00:00:29.720 In today's Deep Dive special, the three ladies on this program have been on before,
00:00:34.740 but they are here today with an important announcement in an area you know I'm passionate about,
00:00:39.620 and I think you are too, protecting girls and women from men invading our spaces,
00:00:43.980 and particularly in the area of sports.
00:00:46.860 It's never been more relevant as we see some of the Biden administration's Title IX changes
00:00:51.620 being implemented today.
00:00:53.940 Now, there are fights to stop this, and we're winning in about 21 states.
00:00:59.720 But in all the rest, this stuff's about to happen, and your little girl is going to be
00:01:03.780 forced to share her locker room and her sports with a little boy.
00:01:06.680 It's absolutely wrong.
00:01:08.080 It's disgusting.
00:01:08.920 It's deeply immoral.
00:01:10.440 But thanks, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, it's happening.
00:01:13.440 Okay.
00:01:14.240 Not only that, but as we watch the Olympics, we brought this to you earlier,
00:01:17.400 boxers with XY chromosomes, reportedly, fighting women in the Olympics this week.
00:01:23.660 How would you like that if you're a boxer?
00:01:25.060 How would you like, if you're an XXer, to fight an XYer in boxing?
00:01:30.580 Joining me today, speaking of XX and XY, Jennifer Say.
00:01:34.200 She's longtime Levi's executive who got completely screwed by Levi's because she raised totally
00:01:38.960 normal objections to the COVID lockdowns in children.
00:01:41.900 And now she is the founder and CEO of XXXY Athletics.
00:01:46.880 We'll get to that.
00:01:47.800 As well as two former top sports broadcasters who have now gone independent.
00:01:51.920 Sage Steele, you know her well.
00:01:53.660 She's host of the Sage Steele Show and Michelle Tafoya, host of the Michelle Tafoya podcast.
00:02:01.540 Ladies, what a pleasure to have you all here at once.
00:02:03.560 Thanks for coming back.
00:02:05.140 Thanks for having us.
00:02:06.720 Thank you.
00:02:07.620 It's fun to do it all together.
00:02:09.880 So nice to see everyone.
00:02:11.840 I know.
00:02:12.300 First of all, Michelle, what are you doing here instead of running for office in Minnesota?
00:02:17.480 Well, you know what?
00:02:18.640 If, if, if it weren't for that pesky husband and family, I probably would be running, but
00:02:25.080 I, you know, I need to stay married and this isn't the time, uh, at least not right this
00:02:30.880 moment.
00:02:31.720 Okay.
00:02:32.220 Yes.
00:02:32.520 Not, not now.
00:02:33.260 That's a JD Vance told me when I interviewed him back in, uh, 18, not right now.
00:02:37.260 Okay.
00:02:37.600 We all know how that wound up.
00:02:39.100 Um, okay.
00:02:39.720 But we are here for something very different.
00:02:41.240 So Jennifer, I short formed your experience with Levi, but they really are assholes and everything
00:02:46.180 you said came true.
00:02:47.220 I mean, they were the most reasonable complaints.
00:02:50.000 You were not a fire breather, but it wound up being a net good because you separated from
00:02:54.560 a company that didn't appreciate you and your honesty.
00:02:57.220 Now you have your own company at this X, X, X, Y.
00:03:00.580 And that's the, those are some of the clothes that we see you and Michelle wearing.
00:03:04.140 I've got some too.
00:03:04.880 I love them.
00:03:05.920 And, um, you're doing something else though.
00:03:08.260 This isn't about like brand promotion.
00:03:09.900 This is about trying to actually give girls who don't want to compete in these games and
00:03:15.580 sports, a meaningful option for getting out.
00:03:19.100 Can you explain?
00:03:20.840 Yeah.
00:03:21.080 I want to point out also Sage is wearing our performance, one of our performance tops.
00:03:25.580 So she's still being fly and X, X, X, Y as well.
00:03:28.520 With all the respect to you, Jennifer, Sage could literally make anything look good.
00:03:32.000 She, I mean, not true, but I love you.
00:03:35.300 That's true.
00:03:35.960 Lucky for us.
00:03:36.700 Um, she'll look at anything we send.
00:03:39.120 Um, yeah.
00:03:39.700 So we launched the, um, the brand four months ago, which is four months, literally, uh,
00:03:44.740 it's making quite the impact.
00:03:46.220 I think our presence is sort of, uh, bigger than our, than our age, if you will.
00:03:50.780 Uh, and what we wanted to do from the beginning, I mean, I should say we're the only athletic
00:03:54.940 brand that's standing up for the protection of women's sports and spaces.
00:03:58.320 You know, I looked around at Nike and Lulu and all these other brands and they claim to champion
00:04:03.800 women and they do no such thing.
00:04:06.040 I mean, Nike treats women with astonishing disregard.
00:04:08.940 I won't go into all the examples, uh, but there are many, many of them, employees, athletes,
00:04:14.740 et cetera.
00:04:15.560 Uh, and so we want to put our money where our mouth is.
00:04:18.740 When we say that, you know, we're here to stand up for women's sports and spaces.
00:04:22.400 Uh, we have this idea, a friend of mine actually called me, uh, a friend from my COVID dissenting
00:04:27.460 days.
00:04:27.860 His name is Eric Hartman.
00:04:28.940 He said, I have this great idea.
00:04:30.300 Why don't you do a scholarship fund, uh, that can encourage and inspire young women who are
00:04:35.260 currently competing, uh, to stand up and to push back or to stand down and refuse to compete,
00:04:40.540 which is what I wish these female boxers would do because, you know, we shouldn't have to watch
00:04:44.820 them get the crap kicked out of them.
00:04:46.880 It's just totally crazy and unfair.
00:04:49.120 So today on the day that this title nine rewrite is meant to go into effect, we're launching
00:04:53.760 the XXXY athletics fund and Sage and Michelle, as well as Riley Gaines, um, and Carrie Lucas
00:05:00.340 from IWF, we're all the advisory council.
00:05:03.140 So we decide who gets the funds, but hopefully, you know, it is designed to take the sting out,
00:05:08.820 uh, the potential monetary cancellation.
00:05:11.140 When these girls speak up, because we've heard from people like Riley and from, and from Paula
00:05:15.820 Scanlon, for instance, that when they, um, stood up, they were threatened, uh, with swimming
00:05:21.580 against the scholarship.
00:05:23.320 Yeah.
00:05:23.800 Sorry.
00:05:24.300 It's exactly.
00:05:25.320 I mean, Paula spoke up for a year while she was still swimming with Leah Thomas at university
00:05:30.960 of Pennsylvania.
00:05:31.620 And she was told to seek therapy.
00:05:33.780 She was threatened that she would never get another job if she did this.
00:05:37.220 And so, you know, the threats are out there and we want to make it easier.
00:05:40.740 We want to normalize standing up for women and girls.
00:05:43.220 We've all fought too hard and too long.
00:05:44.920 And I think the difference maker is going to be when the actual athletes who are currently
00:05:49.780 competing, stand up and push back.
00:05:51.960 It's great that folks like me and Sage and Michelle are doing it, but change happens when
00:05:57.040 the athletes with skin in the game right now say no more.
00:06:01.540 And you guys know what you're talking about.
00:06:02.980 Just as a reminder for the audience, uh, Jennifer is literally a national champion gymnast.
00:06:08.820 Uh, Michelle was a storied sports reporter for many, many years at, with NBC and I think
00:06:14.500 ABC before that and Sage at ESPN and also the long history of athletic success.
00:06:18.900 So, you know what you're talking about?
00:06:20.680 Unlike yours truly, I follow the issue, but I am not athletic.
00:06:23.680 Nick, I mean, that's really kind of sad.
00:06:25.880 I don't believe it.
00:06:27.000 I don't believe it.
00:06:28.900 I'm going to show you some videotapes and take that back, but it's fun.
00:06:32.720 I appreciate it from afar and what you guys are doing, but let me ask you this.
00:06:36.020 How will it work?
00:06:37.280 Like, how do you decide like the girl who's sitting there?
00:06:41.540 Let's, let's take Paula Scanlon.
00:06:42.900 She's back at UPenn and Leah Thomas is, you know, actually will Thomas swimming next to
00:06:49.140 her as Leah six foot three and so on.
00:06:52.120 How does she think about this scholarship?
00:06:55.880 Well, I'm going to cite someone like Peyton McNabb, who I know, um, you know, as well,
00:07:00.060 I think she's been on the show, Megan.
00:07:01.900 And for those that don't know, exactly volleyball player, high school volley ball player injured
00:07:07.960 by a male athlete who spiked the ball at her face.
00:07:11.380 She suffered a severe head and neck injury, brain blade.
00:07:14.960 She still suffers from, you know, cognitive challenges and partial paralysis.
00:07:18.900 And she was unable to pursue the scholarship that she deserved in softball, which was actually
00:07:23.920 her sport that she was the best at.
00:07:26.100 And she struggles to this day, um, to compete her classes, complete her classes.
00:07:30.780 She is in community college.
00:07:32.200 She cannot play sports and it's, it's a real, it's a real shame.
00:07:36.680 You know, I, I would love, uh, to consider Peyton as one of our, as one of our first awardees.
00:07:44.480 Um, this is a woman that deserved that scholarship and she's been so brave and courageous in speaking
00:07:49.620 out and, you know, an award like this can really help to offset the challenge of paying for school,
00:07:56.440 et cetera.
00:07:57.320 So it's someone like that.
00:07:58.460 We will, the advisory council will meet quarterly, um, and we'll decide right now the fund is funded
00:08:05.360 by portion of proceeds from all sales of XXXY myself.
00:08:09.240 I personally put in money as have the other investors and employees.
00:08:13.400 This is how much it means to us.
00:08:15.920 Um, and this panel of women who you're right, they know sports and they are brave and bold
00:08:21.260 and not afraid to speak out.
00:08:22.560 And we'll choose, uh, you know, the awards each, each on a quarterly basis.
00:08:26.760 As we grow the fund and have more money, we hope to give even more awards and people can
00:08:31.020 nominate, um, others because I'm sure there's so many young women we haven't even heard about,
00:08:36.500 you know, we've heard about the West Virginia shop putters and we've heard about Peyton,
00:08:40.140 but I think there's probably so many more out there who are challenging that we just haven't
00:08:44.720 heard of.
00:08:45.160 So we want to give real folks the chance to nominate as well.
00:08:48.220 How do they help?
00:08:49.040 How do, how do people listening to this right now help, help out and donate if they want to?
00:08:52.240 Well, you can go to our website launched just today, xx-xyathletics.org.
00:09:00.160 You can also get there from our commercial site, which is.com.
00:09:03.760 And there'll be a form to fill in, uh, to nominate deserving young women.
00:09:08.720 It's a great idea.
00:09:10.020 I love to just incentivize them.
00:09:13.180 Say it again.
00:09:14.640 Oh, regular folks can also give, but we want it to be business-led.
00:09:18.560 We want to, you know, the best way to give is to, you know, support the brand and buy
00:09:22.220 stuff because a portion of proceeds from every purchase will go to the fund.
00:09:26.260 So you can all, but you can also give to the fund as a, as a regular person.
00:09:30.400 And there's a form there to fill out as well.
00:09:32.860 I mean, I got to get this.
00:09:34.180 I got to get more of this gear and put it on my children.
00:09:36.040 I'll tell you what, after we went to the RNC, they were handing out those, um, cowboy
00:09:39.880 hats that lit up and they read MAGA American on them.
00:09:42.840 And my little 10 year old now 11 wore his print to his little pickleball tournament.
00:09:47.120 And I was like, you go, Thatcher.
00:09:49.080 He goes, I got to represent.
00:09:50.040 So what I got to get is like the kids in the MAGA American hat with the, uh, team women
00:09:55.240 shirts.
00:09:55.880 And I'm just going to gear them up so we can send our, the right messaging about what we
00:09:59.960 believe in.
00:10:01.260 And we need it now more than ever.
00:10:03.000 Can we talk about what's happening with title nine?
00:10:05.180 This is the day that monstrosity gets unleashed on not just college age women, but little girls
00:10:10.440 coast to coast sage.
00:10:11.980 We've won this by this battle at lower courts since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris shoved it
00:10:17.980 down our throats through the title nine revisions in April because lawyers brought lawsuits in
00:10:23.100 various States and said, this is insane.
00:10:25.340 We have to protect girls and women, but only 21, you know, more than half of the States did
00:10:30.640 nothing.
00:10:31.180 And the little girls in those States are about to have to share their locker rooms and their
00:10:34.860 sports with boys, uh, at, at every level.
00:10:38.560 I mean, from K through college.
00:10:40.680 So where, what do you make of how this battle is unfolding?
00:10:45.040 Uh, first of all, um, I think I continued to get more disgusted and I didn't think that
00:10:50.320 that was possible.
00:10:51.340 I do want to thank you, Megan, for being one of the few who is out there and continuing
00:10:56.520 to push hard on this.
00:10:58.080 And I am in awe of Jennifer and her strength and every aspect of her professional and personal
00:11:03.780 life.
00:11:04.240 And Michelle, who Michelle knows forever.
00:11:06.140 I've been, I've looked up to Michelle for years because of how she's done her job.
00:11:09.400 And now all of them to have the courage, including you, the courage to continue to push on this.
00:11:14.220 It's so interesting because I was on Thursday, I was in West Palm beach and Donald Trump was
00:11:19.740 speaking there as a turning point USA faith summit.
00:11:23.180 And that's one of the things he said during his speech was that there, this will not be allowed.
00:11:28.280 I will make sure that girls don't have to compete against boys.
00:11:31.620 Women don't have to compete against men.
00:11:33.300 And the roar in the crowd was deafening for many topics, but especially that one.
00:11:38.860 Um, I guess that gives me hope and a reminder to everybody, the cliche that elections have
00:11:46.100 consequences.
00:11:46.820 And this is a really big one.
00:11:49.320 Um, I will tell you this also being at that summit, being in airports and hotels constantly
00:11:54.800 now around the country.
00:11:55.600 And I know everybody on this panel is, that's the one thing that people come up to me and
00:11:59.760 say, Oh my gosh, thank you.
00:12:02.420 Which I'm just talking.
00:12:04.060 I'm just saying, stating the obvious.
00:12:05.480 I thought, but continue to push on it.
00:12:07.160 And they say, please, please don't stop because I'm concerned for my niece.
00:12:12.700 It isn't sometimes just our daughter.
00:12:13.860 I told you this Megan before my girls, their competitive days are long over.
00:12:17.820 This isn't about me or my kids.
00:12:20.520 It's about you and your kids and everybody else.
00:12:23.180 So I can just say from being out that this is such an important topic for millions and
00:12:29.220 millions of people.
00:12:30.540 And we're seeing the dangers.
00:12:32.080 Of course, what we talked about with the volleyball player of North Carolina, we're seeing a lot
00:12:35.420 of questions right now across the pond and Paris and boxing, et cetera.
00:12:39.260 Um, this isn't going to go away.
00:12:40.620 And I just know that if we get quiet now, we too will, and I don't mean this, I guess
00:12:46.760 I could mean this literally and figuratively, but blood on our hands from the potential of
00:12:51.400 what has happened, of course, in the past and what could continue to happen.
00:12:54.840 I feel like I have no choice, but to continue to speak up.
00:12:57.720 And especially Michelle, you and I have done so much work on this through the years with
00:13:01.780 women and pushing women in sports and more highlights.
00:13:05.980 And let's focus on the WNBA, let's focus on women and fantasy football and those numbers
00:13:10.480 and how much women love sports.
00:13:11.700 And the silence in our industry is still deafening to me and maddening.
00:13:18.800 It is.
00:13:20.320 And Megan, you pointed out the boxing and the Olympics years ago when this was a very, very
00:13:26.420 small sort of fringe issue.
00:13:28.420 I remember people saying, this is not a big deal.
00:13:30.860 This is so rare.
00:13:31.980 Come on.
00:13:32.680 This is not like it's widespread.
00:13:34.080 It is now in the Olympic Games in one of the most devastating, devastatingly violent sports,
00:13:42.580 boxing.
00:13:43.300 So to suggest that this is now a fringe thing.
00:13:46.760 No, it's not.
00:13:47.720 We see constantly cyclists.
00:13:50.460 I talked to a skateboarder yesterday who I interviewed on my podcast.
00:13:54.340 They are losing their positions on the podiums.
00:13:56.860 They are losing dollars.
00:13:58.020 They are losing sponsorships.
00:13:59.940 And you know what else they're losing?
00:14:01.380 They're losing their spirit and their faith in humanity that, wait a minute, I thought
00:14:07.900 we had girls divisions, women's divisions for a reason.
00:14:12.240 We do.
00:14:13.060 I remember when Title IX passed.
00:14:14.660 I was a little girl.
00:14:15.420 My dad said to me, you are going to have opportunities my sisters never had.
00:14:18.680 Your mom never had.
00:14:19.640 And I believe that people like Sage and I were able to carve out careers in sports.
00:14:28.700 Title IX was at the root of that.
00:14:30.800 Now we could play.
00:14:31.800 Now we could participate.
00:14:32.860 And that made us more, I guess, legitimate as commentators.
00:14:37.660 But it's so this is no longer fringe.
00:14:40.160 And I just keep waking up every day and going, what the hell are we doing?
00:14:43.040 Well, you think about the Olympics underway right now.
00:14:46.320 And as I mentioned, Jennifer, you were a world-class athlete and gymnast and gymnastics.
00:14:50.760 And we just won USA, Team USA won gold.
00:14:54.240 And you think that's great.
00:14:55.760 All these people cheering on Team USA.
00:14:58.100 Yeah.
00:14:58.520 I mean, where are you to stand up to stop boys who would crush these girls in nine out
00:15:05.740 of 10 events?
00:15:06.360 I don't know.
00:15:06.720 Maybe not the balance beam.
00:15:07.700 I'm not sure.
00:15:08.060 But, you know, in most of these events to speak up for their safety and their fairness.
00:15:14.260 You know what, Megan?
00:15:15.380 I used to think gymnastics, women's gymnastics was safe from this.
00:15:18.600 But I've found a little rabbit hole on Instagram where there's men, males doing women's gymnastics
00:15:24.300 and they're competing in the NAIA.
00:15:26.600 Although they just made, they're the only governing body that actually made the correct rule,
00:15:30.920 which is women's sports needs to be for bilateral females only.
00:15:35.460 Um, so I actually think because of the way the sport has changed gymnastics and it's so
00:15:40.120 much about power and strength, um, and the extreme difficulty, and it's much less about
00:15:45.520 grace and flexibility than it used to be.
00:15:47.720 I actually think what men would crush in women's gymnastics too, unfortunately.
00:15:52.160 Um, and they have their own gymnastics, do your own gymnastics and leave us alone.
00:15:56.140 Yeah.
00:15:56.620 They have their own boxing.
00:15:57.780 They have their own everything.
00:15:58.820 Leave us.
00:15:59.340 They have their own everything.
00:16:00.460 It's, it's, it's, it's so astonishingly retrograde Megan that, you know, these women are being
00:16:07.120 told these girls and women are being told to sit down and shut up and, you know, take
00:16:11.940 the punch like a man or a woman and, you know, don't complain because to be nice, you need
00:16:17.800 to let this guy beat the crap out of you.
00:16:20.180 Well, no, we're not doing that.
00:16:22.200 And, you know, 70% of Americans agree with us.
00:16:24.480 I actually think it's probably higher than that.
00:16:26.380 That's the latest Gallup anonymous poll.
00:16:28.240 I think people are even afraid to say they're on our side on this issue when they are anonymous
00:16:32.900 because you just, you do get buried for it.
00:16:35.560 I mean, the voicemails I get, how people get my number.
00:16:38.560 I don't know, just threatening, horrible.
00:16:41.160 And for all the standing up I've done in my life, this is for sure.
00:16:44.720 Well, I don't know.
00:16:45.440 COVID was pretty bad, but this is really, really bad in terms of the dragging you get.
00:16:50.240 But I will tell you this every time I wear this t-shirt to the soccer game on the weekend
00:16:54.940 and I have a seven-year-old daughter, every person to the person leans in and they say,
00:17:00.020 I agree with you.
00:17:01.780 Yeah.
00:17:02.260 I love your shirt.
00:17:02.980 And I say, they say it out loud.
00:17:05.600 They shouldn't have to whisper.
00:17:07.200 They shouldn't have to whisper.
00:17:09.700 Can I point out real quick also what's happened with the Olympics and where we are now?
00:17:14.300 Because we say, okay, I believe, and actually numbers show, 70% to 80% of Americans,
00:17:19.280 I mean, this isn't even really divided along political lines, agree with us and what we're
00:17:23.800 saying.
00:17:24.420 And girls, women should not have to compete against boys or men, period.
00:17:28.740 At the Olympics, there has been some progress since the last Olympics in Tokyo.
00:17:33.040 And so now, and Jennifer, you'll get the terminology perfect for me, but 12 years old,
00:17:38.080 is that the line where then based on hormone therapy, or if you've begun to transition before
00:17:44.160 12, anything after 12, it's a no, but they're leaving it up to the state, to the space, to
00:17:49.500 the sports in particular, to make the rules.
00:17:52.820 I'm trying to remember which sport it is, that one has a female category and one has an
00:17:57.040 open category.
00:17:58.540 To me, that is the solution.
00:18:01.040 What I wish is that the IOC would have the balls to just make that the rule for all sports,
00:18:07.040 period, and not leave it up to the separate sports, what we're seeing right now in boxing.
00:18:11.840 So again, I want to emphasize that Jennifer's, you know, idea behind this whole thing, this
00:18:16.940 is not about discriminating against transgender people, because I absolutely believe there
00:18:22.940 is a place.
00:18:23.580 I want everybody to compete in sports.
00:18:25.580 Sports is the one unifier we have on this planet, where for a couple of hours on a football
00:18:30.760 Sunday, we all come together and race and religion and politics and socioeconomic status
00:18:35.260 don't matter.
00:18:35.860 We're dividing it.
00:18:37.220 We're making it worse by doing that.
00:18:39.120 They belong in this too, not with women.
00:18:42.180 You have a women category and you have an open category and you're done with it and women
00:18:46.020 are safe.
00:18:46.940 But can I, can I just say, I think you're, you're right.
00:18:49.060 And you're definitely a nicer person than I am, but I think it is also true that there
00:18:55.200 is an unhealthy proportion of men posing as women who want access to little girls and women's
00:19:02.980 spaces so they can get off.
00:19:05.300 Yes.
00:19:05.500 There's a sick portion that wants to just be a predator and sexually assault them.
00:19:08.440 But there's, I mean, within the trans community, there's a disturbing number who are autogonophiles
00:19:14.600 who they are dressing like women because it's a sexual fetish for them.
00:19:18.160 We believe based on his social media postings, that's what Leah Thomas is.
00:19:22.860 And I don't want my daughter changing next to that person.
00:19:27.880 I don't want her exposed to that person while he's getting off because he's wearing a woman's
00:19:32.320 bathing suit.
00:19:32.960 But like, there really is a sick level of perversion that we need to be on guard for.
00:19:38.620 And I'm, this is a weird turn, but I do, I've been meaning to get to this story.
00:19:41.980 We just saw something in connection with the biggest show on earth.
00:19:46.140 It's not the Megyn Kelly show.
00:19:47.600 It is Mr. Beast.
00:19:49.920 You guys see what happened with Mr. Beast?
00:19:51.620 Oh yeah.
00:19:52.140 Yeah.
00:19:52.740 Yeah.
00:19:53.200 I mean, we all, like if we have kids, you've seen Mr. Beast.
00:19:55.860 It's like, you know, he's got 300 million followers and it's not Mr. Beast himself, but
00:19:59.940 his right hand man, this guy, Chris, who he's friends with, you know, Mr. Beast, I think
00:20:04.440 is 26 or 27 years old, but they, they were knuckleheads who started putting a program on
00:20:08.580 YouTube together at first.
00:20:09.580 And then this guy, Chris transitioned to female, which is not possible.
00:20:14.540 And, uh, started going by Ava said he was a woman.
00:20:17.500 And a lot of us spoke out and said, I don't want this on my child's show.
00:20:21.700 The reason Mr. Beast got so famous because it appeals to children and it's kind of fun.
00:20:26.060 And we were told, Oh, stop, stop, stop.
00:20:27.920 You're being transformed.
00:20:28.620 But well, you know what?
00:20:29.260 Mr. Beast just was forced to separate from Chris slash Ava because according to, uh,
00:20:35.260 Mr. Beast, I'm just looking at his statement.
00:20:37.740 He's become aware of serious allegations of Ava Tyson's behavior online.
00:20:42.440 He's Mr. Beast disgusted opposed to such unacceptable acts.
00:20:46.860 He's hiring an independent third third party to conduct a thorough investigation to ensure
00:20:50.700 that he has all the facts that said, I've seen enough online and taken immediate action
00:20:54.900 to remove him, Ava from the company, my channel, and any association.
00:20:58.960 I don't condone or support any of the inappropriate actions.
00:21:02.080 I'll allow the investigators a necessary time.
00:21:04.060 And he's accused this Chris Tyson, though, denies it, of engaging in online grooming of
00:21:11.320 a 13 year old boy.
00:21:13.140 It's just it's there are all sorts of reasons, Michelle, why we don't want men having access
00:21:20.320 to our little girls.
00:21:22.180 Absolutely.
00:21:23.480 They're trying to normalize this to Megan by by calling normal people like us out for
00:21:29.600 being transphobes or homophobes and scaring us into submission and scaring us by calling
00:21:35.420 us names into shutting up.
00:21:36.820 It's like this term maps, minor attracted persons.
00:21:40.700 Suddenly, if you're a pedophile, you're just a map.
00:21:43.400 You're there.
00:21:43.820 Hey, there's room for minor attracted persons at the table.
00:21:46.760 Come on now.
00:21:47.540 Be just another fetish.
00:21:49.280 Be kind.
00:21:49.920 Yeah.
00:21:50.160 Be inclusive.
00:21:51.480 Why can't you just be inclusive?
00:21:52.940 So this is what this is getting us, this this normalization that is being foisted on us,
00:22:00.740 this idea that you're the problem if you if you think within these pearl clutching lanes
00:22:06.280 of that, you know, that you don't want a trans person changing in the locker room with your
00:22:11.460 daughters.
00:22:12.500 It's it's this foisting of the normalization.
00:22:16.300 That's all I can call it.
00:22:17.420 And it's not just in this arena.
00:22:19.400 It's in a lot of arenas.
00:22:20.640 We're seeing censorship in a lot of arenas.
00:22:22.440 We're seeing, you know, memory holding of certain politicians records so that we kind
00:22:28.440 of like forget what what reality is.
00:22:30.860 This is gaslighting.
00:22:32.460 Minor attracted persons are pedophiles.
00:22:35.560 You don't want them around your children, period.
00:22:38.060 The end.
00:22:39.460 And anybody who makes that argument would be a non parent.
00:22:42.840 I mean, I'm sorry, but like, correct.
00:22:44.300 Would you say, OK, well, you want your child to hang hang out with a pedophile with it with
00:22:48.180 a map?
00:22:48.660 No, no, no sane person would say yes to that.
00:22:50.940 You know, all of this brings me to the political point.
00:22:53.660 I'll give this one to you, Sage, which is I've been going insane.
00:22:57.340 I have been pulling out my fake hair over the nonsense.
00:23:01.980 We are spending our time on J.D.
00:23:06.040 Vance saying and if you look at the context of his remarks and I have many times, he's
00:23:11.420 defending the family.
00:23:12.540 It was a defensive comment on people who are shaming people for having children saying if
00:23:18.260 they suck, they're annoying, they're bad for the environment.
00:23:20.700 And his response to that, if you go back and look at how it unfolded, was to say, no, it's
00:23:25.720 great to have children.
00:23:26.740 Children are super important.
00:23:27.860 And we don't want to be lectured to by childless cat ladies.
00:23:30.780 They're obsessing over this on the Democrat ticket and trying to make him look like a
00:23:35.320 misogynist.
00:23:36.680 That is the party that is chopping off the breasts of 14 year olds that is in favor of
00:23:42.920 that.
00:23:43.160 That wants to give a green light to it.
00:23:45.020 That wants more Peyton McNabb's to get injured by volleyball players who are male that wants
00:23:50.640 more female boxers to get punched in the face by men.
00:23:53.680 I can't believe that we're allowing this narrative to dominate the airwaves now for eight, nine
00:24:01.500 days.
00:24:02.020 But we are.
00:24:04.500 Because they're grasping at straws right now, knowing, you know, ever since basically the
00:24:10.560 debate on June 27th and then the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and everybody's
00:24:14.580 paying attention to the numbers, what can we find that will get the people who just
00:24:18.200 focus on low hanging fruit to say, look at this is how anti-woman, anti-everything J.D.
00:24:24.080 Vance is.
00:24:24.920 The problem is that, of course, for years and years now, they've got the mainstream media
00:24:29.220 behind them and then a bunch of lazy people throughout this country who aren't willing
00:24:33.320 to go do their research.
00:24:34.480 Because guess what?
00:24:35.740 Context matters.
00:24:36.740 And what you just explained for the umpteenth time about J.D.
00:24:40.120 Vance's comments and the why behind them, the entire conversation, that matters.
00:24:44.120 But no one gets that out.
00:24:45.380 One thing I'll say, and I actually spoke about this with Laura Trump in my interview with
00:24:48.760 her on my show, is the Democrats have been so much better than Republicans for decades
00:24:53.880 now with messaging, with how they run their campaign.
00:24:57.300 And then when you've got the power of the mainstream media behind you, it's such an uphill
00:25:01.000 battle.
00:25:01.780 I go back to 2008 and Barack Obama and hoping to change and it was pretty.
00:25:05.580 And what did he do?
00:25:06.180 He went deep into Facebook, right?
00:25:08.520 And he got the younger generation to believe based on what?
00:25:12.640 Based on nothing on a slogan.
00:25:14.420 They've always been so good at it.
00:25:15.980 They got the media behind them as well.
00:25:17.820 That's why I loved your tweet when you came out and said, oh, OK, you're going to focus
00:25:21.780 on this out of context comment and ignore the fact that they're allowing men to look
00:25:27.540 at little girls in locker rooms and to chop off body parts and look what Gavin Newsom
00:25:30.960 is doing in the state of California.
00:25:32.360 And sterilize children to be on the offensive.
00:25:34.660 Yes, and ruining them.
00:25:36.280 We have to be on the offensive and continue to push this information out with you.
00:25:40.080 It's so hard.
00:25:40.980 It's so hard because you can't write.
00:25:43.120 Like, look at you.
00:25:43.900 I love that you're here.
00:25:45.100 I love that all three of you are here.
00:25:46.620 But, you know, as well as I do, that if you were launching a scholarship that would help
00:25:51.280 trans kids find a way into girls athletics over those evil Republicans bands, you'd be featured
00:25:56.880 on the Today Show.
00:25:58.600 Yes, exactly.
00:26:00.140 That's right.
00:26:00.920 Yeah.
00:26:01.640 And Megan, I mean, we've been the brand, you know, before launching the fund in the last
00:26:06.300 two months, we've been banned overtly or shadow banned aggressively from every social media
00:26:13.380 platform.
00:26:14.220 We were kicked off TikTok for an ad that encourages girls and women to stand up for themselves.
00:26:19.340 That's bigotry, that's hate speech in today's effed up world.
00:26:25.420 That's hate speech.
00:26:26.800 And so you're right.
00:26:28.280 I mean, I think I'm the only person right now on this panel that actually spent more
00:26:33.200 than three decades as a Democrat.
00:26:34.800 Don't laugh at me.
00:26:36.480 I did.
00:26:37.680 And so, you know, I understand the mindset.
00:26:42.740 But, you know, for me, it was what it was COVID that just blew the doors off.
00:26:46.980 And then I just started to question everything.
00:26:48.520 I was like, they're lying about everything when it came to COVID.
00:26:52.460 No, not everybody is at equal risk.
00:26:54.540 No, children are not at risk.
00:26:56.240 Children are not super spreaders.
00:26:57.780 We're ruining their lives for nothing.
00:27:00.620 And that's exactly, you know, what we've learned to be the case.
00:27:02.820 But you can't sort of come to that realization and then not question everything.
00:27:06.720 And of course, we saw during COVID, the media was doing the bidding of public health, which
00:27:12.900 is democratic in nature, or in terms of its alignment with the party and of the Democratic
00:27:17.840 Party.
00:27:18.320 It was just they were printing Democratic Party press, you know, PR talking points as
00:27:24.340 if it was news.
00:27:25.620 Where was the journalism?
00:27:27.020 Where was the interrogating of these issues?
00:27:28.900 And so it was at that point that I started to question everything.
00:27:32.060 It just felt like such a trespass of their stated values.
00:27:35.220 And, you know, now we have this issue, which is ridiculous.
00:27:38.340 And I think it lights people up the way that it does.
00:27:40.960 You know, Sage mentioned the roaring crowds at the turning point conference around this
00:27:46.120 issue when Trump spoke about it, because it's such a fundamental violation of what we know
00:27:50.520 to be true.
00:27:51.380 I can't really think of another issue that is so obvious.
00:27:54.560 We're being told not to believe that men and women are different.
00:27:57.900 And all that stuff you thought and you knew since the beginning of time, that's hogwash.
00:28:02.160 You know, the real science says you are the sex you say you are.
00:28:06.660 Well, bullshit.
00:28:08.980 That's ridiculous.
00:28:09.960 It's not true.
00:28:10.880 You, me, me, me.
00:28:11.780 And so I think that's why it's so much bigger than this issue.
00:28:15.240 I mean, this issue I really care about, but it really is for me about the fight for truth.
00:28:20.680 Yeah.
00:28:21.180 I'm going to take that ad.
00:28:23.180 I'm going to drop it into this episode right here for free.
00:28:26.720 I want everybody to see it.
00:28:28.060 If you think girls and women's equality matter, stand up.
00:28:35.100 If girls and women's sports matter, and you want your daughters to have the same opportunity
00:28:39.500 you had, stand up.
00:28:41.440 If you know that it isn't fair or safe to allow males to compete in girls' sports, because
00:28:47.900 it's, well, obvious, stand up.
00:28:52.320 Don't be cowed by people who call you a bigot.
00:28:54.940 You're not a bigot.
00:28:56.280 Don't let men tell us how to be good girls.
00:28:59.020 Don't let others tell you you just need to be quiet.
00:29:01.780 Sit down.
00:29:02.660 Be nice.
00:29:03.440 It's not nice to further a lie.
00:29:05.560 It's not mean to believe in women's equality.
00:29:07.900 We deserve our own sports, privacy, fairness, safety.
00:29:13.040 We deserve a chance to compete and win.
00:29:16.160 So don't be nice.
00:29:17.500 Don't be careful.
00:29:18.720 Be honest.
00:29:19.980 Be brave.
00:29:21.180 Fight for women.
00:29:22.580 We've come too far to give up now.
00:29:24.620 And if you agree with that, stand up and stand with us.
00:29:33.580 Go ahead, Michelle.
00:29:34.540 I'll give you the last word.
00:29:35.260 I was just going to say, my 15-year-old daughter had a doctor's appointment the other day.
00:29:40.400 So they ask you to pre-register online, you know, fill out the forms.
00:29:44.740 And you get to a big form about gender identity.
00:29:48.300 How does your child identify?
00:29:50.840 There was sex assigned at birth, you know, ask for pronouns.
00:29:57.380 Sex is not assigned at birth.
00:30:00.280 It's a biological fact at birth.
00:30:02.720 And the fact that this is now, all of the pronouns and the gender ideology is permeating
00:30:08.280 medicine, academia.
00:30:10.560 It is everywhere.
00:30:12.240 And like you said, you feel like you've just, Megan, I'm so glad to know you're tearing your
00:30:18.180 hair out too, because I am every single day.
00:30:20.520 And it's over this issue and many like it.
00:30:23.300 It's as though we're living in some upside down universe.
00:30:26.880 And I just want to, I just want to back up right again.
00:30:30.860 And that doesn't mean going backwards.
00:30:32.840 We're still speaking truth.
00:30:33.840 Megan, thank you.
00:30:34.180 And we have, we have Elon Musk on our side now too, who's out there standing up and preaching.
00:30:40.500 And so I don't know where we'd be without him and who knew we'd ever say that.
00:30:43.520 So I think we just have to realize they're there and we just have to keep helping women
00:30:48.640 and men find courage to speak this truth.
00:30:51.980 That's absolutely right.
00:30:52.880 And I will say, Michelle, we brought our 14 year old, 13 year old to their, for their
00:30:56.500 annual physicals.
00:30:57.360 And sure enough, they wanted to speak with them privately without mom and dad.
00:31:01.080 You know, that could be about sexual conduct.
00:31:03.360 It could be about trans stuff.
00:31:04.840 Usually it's about the trans stuff.
00:31:06.180 And Doug and I said, no, no, you will not speak with our children without us.
00:31:11.320 They're not secrets between our kids and adults, period.
00:31:15.760 You guys are the best.
00:31:16.880 Come back.
00:31:17.320 Let's make it a regular.
00:31:19.380 Love it.
00:31:21.320 Thank you, Michelle.
00:31:23.220 Good luck with it.
00:31:24.280 All right.
00:31:24.540 And listen, everybody, it's xx-xyathletics.org.
00:31:30.620 Go there, help out just to give a middle finger to the man.
00:31:34.640 And by that, I mean, Meta, Facebook, everybody who's censoring Jen and her company.
00:31:39.580 And this effort, xx-xyathletics.org.
00:31:44.260 Check it out.
00:31:44.940 And thanks to all of you for joining me today.
00:31:46.700 We'll see you next time.
00:31:47.360 Thanks for listening to The Megyn Kelly Show.
00:31:52.080 No BS, no agenda, and no fear.