Megyn Kelly Loses Her Shit Over Trans Women Needing Gynecologists

The conservative talk personality was infuriated by the contents of her own mind.

by Evan Urquhart

The YMCA in Santee California continues to draw national attention, particularly on the right. Yesterday, conservative talk personality Megyn Kelly had a near-meltdown on her Sirius XM radio show, explaining she was infuriated by the fact that Christynne Lili Wrene Wood, the trans woman who was briefly glimpsed by a 17-year-old while she changed, has a gynocologist.

Wood mentioned having a gynecologist in a local news interview where she was speaking euphemistically about having had gender confirmation surgery, as part of the process of defending herself from people on the right, who have called her a man:

screenshot from ABC 10 News

Megyn Kelly then responded, saying she found the above quote “infuriating.” Sounding close to breaking down, Kelly elaborated further, saying women “actually have things we need to worry about like ovarian cancer or other kinds of cancers that you can get. You have to get a breast exam, you’re constantly worrying whether they’re going to find a lump and how that could go there,” before calling Wood a “fucking man” and speaking of genital surgery in disparaging, dehumanizing terms.

Kelly was, of course, factually incorrect on multiple points. Trans women who have these surgeries do need gynecological care for their vaginas and vulvas, and all trans women on hormone therapy grow breasts, which then require screenings for breast cancer, just as cis women’s breasts do.

Here’s some further explanation from a trans inclusive gynecologist:

a screenshot from an inclusive gynecologist’s website describing why some trans women need gynecological care

Like cis women, trans women often find gynecological and breast exams uncomfortable, embarrassing, or frightening, because, like cis women, trans women are fucking human beings who experience normal human emotional reactions to things.

The transphobic ranting continued, but we won’t dignify it further. Suffice to say that Megyn Kelly and her guests ignored the existence of trans men who get pregnant in the name of how special women are. They also said a bunch of other dismissive, dehumanizing, and transphobic things, downplayed the risk of violence faced by trans women (which is higher than the risk to cis women), and were generally awful all around.