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Megyn Kelly regrets former support for transgender ideology, interviews detransitioner
Lifesitenews.com ^ | 3/9/2024 | Andreas Wailzer

Posted on 03/11/2024 8:56:08 AM PDT by NetAddicted

Megyn Kelly said, 'I realize now I was part of this problem. My heart was in the right place. I wasn't trying to push anything bad on the kids. I thought I was being supportive of them. I thought I was promoting anti-bullying.'

(LifeSiteNews) — Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly has expressed contrition for having once supported transgender ideology.

Having interviewed Isabelle Ayala, a 21 year old detransitioner first took cross-sex hormones at 14, and Ayala’s lawyer Jordan Campbell, Kelly made a passionate speech.

“Remember that segment I did on the pronouns … when I was at NBC?” she asked.

… I’m kind of emotional about it because look at this poor girl, what was done to her.

I realize now I was part of this problem. My heart was in the right place. I wasn’t trying to push anything bad on kids. I thought I was being supportive of them. I thought I was promoting anti-bullying, and now I just have such regret about it, and I’m not a regretful person as you know.

If you’re not actively fighting against this you are part of the problem. You are hurting people like Isabel. You have to fight, whether it’s a donation, or just using your voice, or retweeting support for people like Isabelle or Jordan.

Do it. Do something. Just do something. Please, don’t protect yourself. And don’t be lured into thinking it’s empathetic to support this radical, radical experimentation on minors.

Children’s rights activist Billboard Chris took to X, formerly Twitter, to attract attention to the interview.

Such a powerful talk today from @megynkelly.

She hosted detransitioner Isabelle Ayala and her lawyer Jordan Campbell to talk about Isabelle’s story that led to her ‘transitioning’ at the age of 14.

They have now filed a lawsuit against those who pushed this child abuse.… pic.twitter.com/Sxo8Yo0k9n

— Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BillboardChris) March 8, 2024

Alaya is suing her doctors and the American Academy of Pediatrics for the physical and mental damage the proscribed “gender-affirming” procedures have caused her.

Ayala told Kelly that she got sucked into transgender ideology at a young age and how doctors coerced her parents to consent to the harmful hormonal injections.

She said that the physicians told her parents that Ayala might commit suicide if she delayed testosterone injections.

Ayala told Kelly that she was diagnosed with autism as a kid and sexually assaulted in her childhood.

“That definitely warped how I saw the world and gave me intense trauma,” the 21-year-old said. “So when I was in my preteens, I sought out answers.”

Ayala said that she knows now that being sexually abused and having autism are risk factors for getting drawn into gender ideology.

“I was on social media for the first time. I was making friends, and I discovered what being transgender is,” she recalled.

When she saw “how happy these people seemed,” Ayala felt “this thing was the answer.”

She said that content on the microblogging platform Tumblr was the most influential in her indoctrination into gender ideology.

“I feel like Tumblr is really what radicalizes a lot of young girls in terms of gender ideology,” Ayala stated.

At the time, Ayala was about 12 to 13 years old. One of the tactics she learned online was that in order to pressure parents to consent to hormone treatment, she was to lie and pretend that she was suicidal.

“It was kind of like what I read online,” she told Kelly. ”You’re going to need to push and make people show the gravity of the situation if you want to get what you want in terms of hormones. And that can mean lying. And that is a thing that I definitely see encouraged even nowadays in the trans community.”

“Oh my gosh, this is still at 12 or 13 years old. You’re seeing encouragement that you pretend you’re suicidal so that your parents will break down and get you the hormones,” Kelly responded. “This is so dark.”

Ayala had an appointment with pediatrician and child psychiatrist Dr. Jason Rafferty, who prescribed her testosterone to “treat” her gender dysphoria. She said that her mother was hesitant at first, but Rafferty and other doctors pressured her parents to take the hormones lest her daughter commit suicide.

“That’s kind of when they cornered my parents a bit more about that, making me go on hormones or … I would commit suicide,” she said.

As part of the recent bombshell leak called the “WPATH Files,” it was revealed that pro-LGBT doctors and transgender activists often use the risk of suicide as a justification for beginning “gender-affirming” drugs as early as possible. To debunk the baseless claim, journalist Michael Shellenberger cited a recent study from Finland that “found no scientific evidence to support the claim that drugs and surgeries prevent suicide among people with gender dysphoria.”

READ: Leaked messages show top pro-LGBT doctors know transgender hormones cause cancer, death

Ayala started taking testosterone when she was 14 years old. Six to eight months into having the regular hormone injections, she was hospitalized due to a suicide attempt. Despite this, Dr. Rafferty continued prescribing testosterone to her.

Describing the effects of taking cross-sex hormones for years, Ayala said: “I was growing mass amounts of body hair. I was sweating ten times more than I usually did. I was gaining a lot of weight. I was really angry. It was just a lot. My menstrual cycle stopped. It was pretty jarring.”

Ayala also developed an autoimmune disease during that time. She implied that it was likely linked to the cross-sex hormone injections.

“When I was seeing my second doctor, she diagnosed me with hypothyroidism, and that eventually devolved into Hashimoto’s disease, which is an autoimmune disease of the thyroid,” she recalled. “And it has been really debilitating on my physical health. And I was a really healthy kid beforehand. All I really had were allergies.”

“So, it [Hashimoto’s disease] didn’t seem like something that I would just develop out of nowhere,” she added.

“I’ll never be the way I was before I started testosterone,” the 21-year-old lamented. “My bone structure is compromised due to the fact that I was a growing and developing teenager and actively taking testosterone. I’m dealing with things such as vaginal atrophy, irregular periods.”

“I don’t even know if I’m fertile or if I’m ever going to be able to have children,” she continued. “And there’s also just a lot of the emotional things as well that go along with this.”

Ayala started her de-transition process at 17 years of age after she had first learned it was an option from the testimony of another woman who had “de-transitioned.”

With the help of her lawyer, Dr. Jordan Campbell, she is now suing Dr. Rafferty, Dr. Michelle Forcier, and the American Academy of Pediatrics for recommending the harmful “treatments.”

The Rhode Island state lawsuit on behalf of Ayala alleges Dr. Michelle Forcier and Dr. Jason Rafferty placed Ayala and other gender-confused individuals on “a conveyor belt of life-altering puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and/or experimental surgeries.”

Both Forcier, a professor at Brown University’s medical school, and Rafferty are prominent supporters of the chemical and surgical mutilation of children. Both also work at Lifespan Physician Group, a named defendant and a dominant medical care provider in Rhode Island.

Forcier famously appeared in Matt Walsh’s What is a Woman movie. She also worked as a Planned Parenthood abortionist and claimed that “babies and infants understand differences in gender.”

Rafferty drafted the American Academy of Pediatrics “comprehensive care” statement, which supported the genital and surgical mutilation of gender-confused kids.

READ: Two women damaged by ‘gender transitions’ sue prominent pro-transgender doctors

Dr. Jordan Campbell said that the primary motivation for Ayala and other detransition clients who are suing pro-LGBT doctors and organizations is not to get financial compensation but to prevent the suffering of other children and adolescents trapped in gender ideology.

In 2016, Meghan Kelly defended Barack Obama’s federal transgender guidance requiring all public schools in the nation to allow members of one biological sex to use the locker rooms, showers, and restrooms as members of the opposite sex or lose federal funding.

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To: Zathras
I till think it was Wallace who setup Trump at Fox

I would have agreed with you if Brett Bair hadn't smugly announced in advance something to the effect of being prepared to challenge Trump and then Megyn Kelley being shown walking down the hall to enter all pro-wrestling style, all grins like the cat that ate the canary. They were quite excited and happy to be the executioners even if Wallace was the one who had passed the sentence.

But the target turned the table on them!

21 posted on 03/11/2024 9:54:49 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: bk1000
My heart was in the right place.

Problem was her mouth; it was running instead of yielding to critical thought she's now expressing. Think twice, speak once.

22 posted on 03/11/2024 10:00:20 AM PDT by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Bingo!


23 posted on 03/11/2024 10:00:48 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: NetAddicted

didn’t read the whole thing- maybe she mentioned it, but i think she had a relative that was gay or transitioning or something- so that might explain why she was so pro gay/trannie- but as a conservative she shoulda known better- and not let emotions or feelings for relatives betray her conservative ideology


24 posted on 03/11/2024 10:06:29 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: MayflowerMadam

🎯

A big mouth, sharp mind, and with off the Richter Scale ambition, we will never know where Megan really stands.

Clicks and cash seems her life goal.


25 posted on 03/11/2024 10:11:28 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. For Greater Glory. HIS., stepping on attorney-client privilege. )
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To: Spok

I once had the same view about Megyn’s IQ. But, watching her analyze the Big FANNY fiasco, I had to admit to myself that she was doing a better job by far than any other news source and she had definitely crossed back over into the Trump camp politically.

As for her looks, lol, at 53 years old, I doubt you would find a mature, straight, normal, virulent, single man who would not spend the night with her given the chance.

Moreover, the fact that she, an intelligent, attractive, educated woman, will routinely say nearly all the cusswords that nobody else will makes her particularly fun to watch......in my opinion.


26 posted on 03/11/2024 10:15:24 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: NetAddicted

Let’s be honest. Her heart and multi million dollar contract was at NBC and NBC’s heart was in the wrong place. Money has a way of making one rationalize their temporary stupidity. Glad she is free of them and their mainstream media mind control.


27 posted on 03/11/2024 10:26:42 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: bankwalker

Has Megyn apologized to Trump for her treatment of him during the so-called debate?


28 posted on 03/11/2024 10:30:43 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: moovova

I’m not satisfied, everything I’ve tried, I don’t like the way, life has been abusing me. Does that capture your meaning? Some people might get this.


29 posted on 03/11/2024 10:31:34 AM PDT by bobonthejob
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To: NohSpinZone
The very idea of transsexualism is an affront to God’s design.

"A woman must not put on man’s apparel, nor shall a man wear woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is abhorrent to your God." (Deut. 22:5)

30 posted on 03/11/2024 10:34:17 AM PDT by montag813
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To: NetAddicted

This woman is not very bright. So, she thought it would help stop bullying by others by replacing that “bullying” by authority bullying by teachers and the government to be trans.


31 posted on 03/11/2024 10:49:48 AM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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To: bankwalker

Yep.
She messed with the Bull and got the Horns.😉
Trump 2024👍


32 posted on 03/11/2024 11:04:25 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal! )
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To: NetAddicted
My heart was in the right place.

No, it was not.

33 posted on 03/11/2024 11:10:49 AM PDT by LouAvul (If America will repent of its wickedness and return to Christ, He will forgive and restore. )
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To: montag813

Amen!!!


34 posted on 03/11/2024 11:13:53 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: NetAddicted

Gggeeeezzzzeeee

Gog Dr mengele usa

MaGog Dr mengele nato

Rev 13


35 posted on 03/11/2024 11:18:45 AM PDT by Firehath (Quackery - An irrelevant simplification / undetected Complex problem - attacking symptoms)
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To: NetAddicted

Anyone supporting this demonic fad in any manner is being used by Satan himself. He is the father of lies, after all. And Democrats are his tools.


36 posted on 03/11/2024 11:37:30 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist .)
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To: NetAddicted

We all feel this way before Jesus Christ, even worse.


37 posted on 03/11/2024 11:47:29 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: NetAddicted

For EfDuck’s Sake
Megyn is trying to rebrand herself. She is an idiot.
She was wrong on the transgender thing. So how can she make amends and undo what she said?
Not much better than Glen Beck who was virulently anti-Trump.
These boneheads don’t realize how the MSM touts some things they say, and then suppresses any mention of reversals.


38 posted on 03/11/2024 11:57:45 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: rdcbn1

Yup, that’s why I will never trust her again.

But, these see which way the wind is blowing types can sometimes be useful in assessing which way the wind is indeed blowing.


39 posted on 03/11/2024 12:02:03 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: NetAddicted

She was really stupid


40 posted on 03/11/2024 12:36:52 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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