Megyn Kelly misgenders Olympic boxer Imane Khelif and calls on her opponents to “take a knee”
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Citation From the August 28, 2024, edition of The Megyn Kelly Show
CARRIE PREJEAN BOLLER (GUEST): That's where it really hurts them is when it hits the pocketbook and so we must refuse to watch. We are the consumers and then all the women who are about to compete against this dude, I challenge you take a knee, refuse to compete. That's when the circus ends.
MEGYN KELLY (HOST): Imagine if those women in the boxing ring had done that when opposite those two male boxers, if they just took a knee immediately and said I refuse, it would have made such a statement.
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BOLLER: And I'm glad you mentioned the boxing situation because I wanted to bring that up. I had the opportunity to reach out, thank God, I got a hold of the boxer who was going to compete against the dude Imane Khelif and I reached out to her and I talked to her boyfriend and I said, why don't you go in that ring? You go in that ring and you fight against that dude. Yeah. Yeah. It was amazing. I had this whole interaction with him and he's Hungarian. So I had this whole interaction with him on Instagram. And I said, please, please, I beg you, tell your girlfriend, her name is gonna come and go. Nobody's gonna remember her name. But if everybody will remember her name if she jumps in that ring and takes a knee and says, no, I'm gonna take a knee for women across the world.
This is a worldwide women's rights issue. It's not just here in America. Look what's happening in Australia. And we, we need to take a knee and fight back against this. That's when this is gonna change. And so the girl ended up going in the ring and she got, she got beat up and nobody's going to remember her name. But imagine Megan, imagine what would have happened. Imagine all the little girls like your daughter and my daughter who would have saw that girl take a knee.
KELLY: It would have been so huge given the the size of the stage, you know, the Olympics, the gold medal round. You know, we've seen like we saw those young girls, those shot putters, they refused. That was great. But it needs to happen on a larger stage where it will command attention or someone makes the active decision to sacrifice the gold medal or the prize money so that they can stand up for your little girl in mine.