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Megyn Kelly blasts declared ‘highest paid female CEO in America’: ‘He climbed none of the mountains we did’

September 26, 2024 | | Print Article

Journalist and podcast host Megyn Kelly unloaded on social media in reaction to a post about the newly declared “highest paid female CEO in America.”

The host of “The Megyn Kelly Show” prompted thousands of comments on her post decrying the focus on Martine Rothblatt, who was added to the Mayo Clinic’s Board of Trustees in 2022.

While the Mayo Clinic touted Rottblatt’s many accomplishments, there was no mention of the inventor and author’s sex-reassignment surgery in 1994. A 2014 New York Magazine profile of the “Futurist, pharma tycoon, satellite entrepreneur,” and “philosopher” did address the transition, though, in a cover story titled, “The Highest-Paid Female CEO in America Used to Be a Man.”

“He is not female & he is not ‘the highest paid female CEO in America,'” Kelly wrote on X.

“He climbed none of the mountains we did, overcame none of our challenges. He started pretending to be one of us at AGE 40,” Kelly wrote. “He knows nothing about being a woman & will never be one no matter his costume.”

According to the Mayo Clinic:

Martine Rothblatt is the Chairperson & CEO of United Therapeutics Corporation (UT). She started UT to save her youngest child’s life from a rare illness after having previously created SiriusXM satellite radio and other satellite communications systems. She is also responsible for several innovations in aviation and architecture, including the design and piloting of an electric helicopter to Guinness world records and creating the world’s largest zero carbon footprint building.

Dr. Rothblatt earned her Ph.D. in Medical Ethics from the Royal London College of Medicine and Dentistry after earning JD and MBA degrees from UCLA, which also recently awarded her the UCLA Medal, its highest honor. She is an inventor on several patents and the author of several books, the most recent of which pertain to artificial cognition and cyber-consciousness.

But the colorful New York Magazine piece years before described Rothblatt as a “magnificent, like a tall lanky teenage boy with breasts.”

“Martine is transgender, a power trans, which makes her an even rarer species in the corporate jungle than a female CEO. And she seems genuinely to revel in her self-built in-betweenness,” the piece continued.

Kelly’s outrage on X was echoed by many other social media users who were not bashing the former Fox News host for not being politically correct.

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