Megyn Kelly slammed “woke” ESPN hosts Thursday for “holding back tears” when condemning the overturning of Roe v. Wade — but holding their tongues about trans athletes participating in women’s sports.
The conservative pundit and guest Sage Steele — who was booted from ESPN for making comments about being forced to get the COVID vaccine — ripped into the sports network for consistently discussing liberal talking points not related to sports, including George Flyod’s death and the choice to finish federal protections on abortion rights.
The one current issue ESPN appears to remain “silent” on, the pair argued, directly intersects with its beat: Transgender female athletes allegedly crushing their competition.
“Sports Media, I believe, has a special obligation,” Kelly said.
“My daughter is 12. If she shows up at a soccer game and there may be a boy on the opposite team, we’re out of there. There’s zero probability I’ll let her play. I don’t care who I offend … There’s no way — and I like to recommend other parents do the identical thing because your kid actually could get hurt.”
Steele agreed with Kelly, adding that she was “disgusted” to see her ex-colleagues decline to talk on the problem.
The previous sports anchor alleged that several of her past male coworkers oppose trans athletes playing against their chosen gender and wouldn’t allow their very own daughters to play against “boys.”
“This isn’t even controversial. That is silly that it’s even a subject with trans-biological men attempting to play sports with women,” Steele said.
Steele insinuated that ESPN only allows its anchors to debate their views in the event that they are liberal-leaning, leading her to sue the network for firing her over conservative comments she made on a non-affiliated podcast on her time off.
She pointed to a June 2022 segment by which ESPN anchor Malika Andrews tearfully reported that “women’s reproductive rights [were] being taken away.”
“She’s holding back tears. Where’s her tearful diatribe for my daughter and the daughters of America immediately who’re getting hurt when playing against biological boys? Why are they crying about abortion on the set of ESPN?”
“The indisputable fact that they’re all silent disgusts me, especially due to how vocal they were about, let’s say the overturning of Roe v. Wade and girls’s rights. I mean, hello, there have been people on our airwaves talking about that,” Steele said.
“And sports! Abortion is just not sports!” Kelly giddily interjected.
The 2 argued that allowing trans female athletes to participate on women’s teams and in women’s leagues wouldn’t only degrade the sporting world but would set back the ladies’s rights movement.
They slammed trans woman Anne Andres, who set an all-time record on the Canadian Powerlifting Union’s 2023 Western Canadian Championship Sunday after lifting 440 kilos greater than the second-place winner.
Andres defended her title, claiming that her intense training schedule earned her the gold reasonably than a biological advantage.
Kelly and Steele giggled while watching Andres’ videos while repeatedly misgendering her and making fun of the “unflattering” angle that the video depicted her in.
“You gotta laugh since it’s comical,” Kelly said.
