The Trans Athletes Debate, From All Angles: High School Girls Suing, Medical Experts, and More | Ep. 101

The Megyn Kelly Show

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Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Chelsea Mitchell and Alanna Smith, two students involved in a lawsuit over trans athletes competing in girls sports, and their lawyer, Kristen Waggoner of Alliance Defending Freedom, as well as Joanna Harper, PhD researcher at Loughborough University, and Dr. Gregory Brown, professor of Exercise Science at University of Nebraska Kearney, to discuss the status of the lawsuit in Connecticut, what the media has left out about the trans vs. cis high school athletics story, what the right solution for trans athletes might be, the scientific advantages of males identified at birth over females identified at birth, the scientific difference between adolescents competing and professionals competing, the key factor of when hormone therapy is started for trans athletes vs. social transitioning, what studies reveal about trans athletes competing against cis athletes, the importance of having productive conversations about trans athletes and women's sports, and more. Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShow Instagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShow Facebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
0:07.0	Today, the Trans Athlete story from all angles.
0:11.0	Girls who filed a recent lawsuit to stop the trans girls from running in sports, scientific
0:16.1	experts on both sides of the debate, they're amazing and more.
0:20.0	Next.
0:21.0	Hey everyone, it's Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show.
0:29.0	Today on the program, the Trans Debate, as I mentioned a second ago, here's what we're
0:34.6	going to be talking about.
0:35.9	In the state of Connecticut, three young athletes, teenage high school athletes, filed a lawsuit
0:42.6	trying to object to the fact that trans girls had been allowed to compete against these
0:49.4	three girls in female athletics and the trans girls were winning a lot and taking titles
0:56.9	that these girls felt were rightly theirs.
1:00.2	They feel that the feminist community, at least parts of it, have not been standing up for
1:03.9	them and that these girls and their families have been left to their own devices to try
1:09.1	to stand up for their places on these track teams and in other sports.
1:12.9	This is an issue that's covering college athletics at the international Olympic level and
1:18.1	of course now at and the high school level as well and people don't know what they're
1:21.9	doing.
1:22.9	I mean, if you look at the case law all over the states, it's all over the place.
1:26.4	Even the actual laws passed in various states, just pulling up my notes here.
1:32.1	Okay, there are bills aimed at limiting or prohibiting trans women in sports in 20 states.
1:37.0	Bills have been passed in places like Florida and West Virginia.
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