Matt Walsh

Matthew Walsh (born: ), better known as Matt Walsh, is an American political commentator and podcast host. He is a part of and starred in the documentary He has been labelled as "Transphobe of the Year" by .https://newrepublic.com/article/169609/transphobe-year-matt-walsh
==Personal life==
Walsh is a practicing Catholic and resides in Nashville, Tennessee. He is married to Alissa Ann Walsh (née Linnemann), whom he met through eHarmony. The couple has six children, which includes two sets of twins. Alissa Walsh has shared that she has experienced seven miscarriages in her life.
===Career===
Walsh commenced his career as a co-host on talk radio, appearing on The Matt and Crank Program at WZBH 93.5 FM in Georgetown, Delaware, from early 2010 to August 1, 2011. He later relocated to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and joined WGMD 92.7 FM, where he remained for less than a year. In 2012, he moved to Lexington, Kentucky, and joined NewsRadio 630 WLAP. Around the same time, he launched The Matt Walsh Blog, a website where he expressed his conservative views on various topics. In December 2013, after his radio show was canceled, Walsh decided to leave radio entirely and focus solely on blogging.
From October 2014, Walsh became associated with the conservative media outlet Blaze Media. He also contributed to HuffPost and began writing for The Daily Wire in October 2017. Over the years, he made appearances on various TV shows, including Tucker Carlson Tonight, The Ingraham Angle, Fox and Friends, Dr. Phil, and the podcast The Joe Rogan Experience.
Starting in April 2018, Walsh hosted The Matt Walsh Show on YouTube, airing on weekdays with an hour-long duration. The show reportedly generated significant revenue, earning $100,000 per month from advertisements, according to Walsh. However, in April 2023, he announced that the show was being relocated to the Daily Wire website after his YouTube channel faced demonetization due to repeated misgendering of transgender woman Dylan Mulvaney.
==Political views==
Walsh's views have been described as right-wing, conservative, but sometimes far-right and reactionary. He sarcastically identifies himself as "Theocratic Fascist, Best-Selling Children's Author" in his Twitter bio. 
===Abortion===
He is anti-abortion, saying that "life is precious".https://youtu.be/4RpV_LylisEhttps://web.archive.org/web/20220615174811/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1337413109603037185 He supported Alabama's 2019 bill that outlaws abortion in all cases, including rape and incest, as he believes forcing 12-year-old rape victims to carry to term would help them get their crime discovered and increase the rapist's accountability, and abortion would otherwise destroy the evidence and encourage the rapist to continue molesting without consequence.https://web.archive.org/web/20220615002050/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1128735398157594626
===Colonialism===
In 2023 Matt released a video in which he stated that those who colonized the United States were "heroes" who should be celebrated for their "courage" in crossing the Atlantic Ocean and populating America, and that the colonization of America was "noble". Walsh has stated that the United States has hypocritically condemned colonization in its past, while engaging in "cultural colonization... when Western governments fly the pride flag on their embassies and export the LGBT agenda and gender ideology into Africa and other regions that don't want it."https://streamable.com/dxb0ju
===Vaccines===
Though Walsh has asserted that he had a neutral stance on vaccines,https://web.archive.org/web/20220615175040/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1389632418479583236 Walsh has accused the children's program Sesame Street of indoctrinating children. He suggested that the program was "promoting drug use" and that Big Bird "had the voice of a 'child molester'" when encouraging children to get vaccinated.https://web.archive.org/web/20220624074646/https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/matt-walsh-slams-big-bird/ Furthermore, he shared a video explaining his decision not to vaccinate his children against COVID-19, including a segment in which he promoted hesitance, uncertainty, and doubt about the potential long-term effects of the vaccine.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1-aAR1ljio
==Controversy==
===Transphobia===
He is best known for his anti-transgender stance, believing that gender dysphoria is a mental illness,https://web.archive.org/web/20220516005035/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1128711770980401152 claiming all trans-identifying people are narcissistic,https://web.archive.org/web/20210307130403/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/717358536473219072 blaming affirmation of transgender people's gender identity for suicide rates of trans people,https://web.archive.org/web/20210307112916/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/834563998330798080 and considering trans advocates and supporters to be "biology deniers".https://web.archive.org/web/20210307114649/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/809848558853754880
Walsh endorsed a legislation aimed at prohibiting the transition of teenagers, simplifying it as a "bill prohibiting the genital mutilation of children."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMm8UgnE3Hc He characterized gender-affirmation surgery as "surgical mutilation," accused parents of transgender children of exploiting them for attention, and asserted that older children wanting to transition face challenges because subjecting them to therapy would be "painful."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2-nB2uZ9G4 He also advocated for making transition surgery illegal for everyone, expressing approval for Russia's implementation of such policies in 2023, including a ban on trans adoption.https://www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/daily-wires-matt-walsh-says-he-supports-universal-ban-all-gender-affirming-medical-carehttps://ghostarchive.org/archive/BC8mG
In a video for The Daily Wire, Walsh equated gender-affirming care to sexual abuse, stating that a child undergoing hormone therapy and body alteration is being "sexually violated" in a manner comparable to molestation or rape. He likened doctors who provide gender-affirming care to children to Nazi scientists,https://www.losangelesblade.com/2021/05/26/the-daily-wires-matt-walsh-makes-extreme-attacks-on-trans-kids/ suggesting that they should face execution or lifelong imprisonment.https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1621240842257063936https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z8eg/anti-trans-rights-matt-walsh-execution-teachers-doctors
Despite having no ties to the county, Walsh rented a home in Loudoun County to participate in a school board meeting related to the school's residents and students. The focal point of his concern was allowing transgender individuals to identify with their gender and mandating staff to use their consistently asserted gender in communication with parents.https://wjla.com/news/local/conservative-matt-walsh-rents-loudoun-county-home-school-board-meeting-tanner-cross-transgender-pronouns During his speech, he criticized the school board as poisonous while acknowledging his lack of scientific qualification to comment on gender controversies.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGx7QJ17IHg
In late 2021, Walsh authored a children's book titled "Johnny the Walrus," depicting a story about a boy who imagines he is a walrus and undergoes surgical alteration after facing public scrutiny. The book's comparison of the boy's situation to trans-identifying children's situations generated controversy. Despite this controversial nature, the book topped the LGBTQ+ category on Amazon as part of a troll campaign.
In 2022, Walsh released a popular and controversial documentary produced by the Daily Wire. The documentary, titled "What is a Woman?" released in June 2022, has been criticized for its alleged reliance on "pseudoscience, logical fallacies, and misinformation."https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/06/what-is-a-woman-is-a-feature-length-exploration-of-conservative-ignorance-and-prejudicehttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/in-what-is-a-woman-matt-walsh-asks-a-question/ Walsh boldly claims that the film's central question cannot be answered, asserting that "The Left is terrified of the film."
In early 2023, Walsh testified in support of a bill banning "child mutilation" (gender-affirming care) at a committee hearing. When asked about his qualifications, Walsh evaded the question and focused on discussing "chemical castration," which he inaccurately represents as hormone/puberty blockers. He argued that trans individuals should only receive treatment until the age of 25, claiming it as the age of maturity. However, when questioned about raising the age of consent and the age to buy firearms, he opposed such measures, raising concerns about the inconsistency in his views.https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1623462154820104193
===Teenage pregnancy===
In June 2021, during one of Walsh's satirical children's book reviews, in reference to a book intended to teach children a contemporary view of consent (the restriction of physical affection, such as hugging or kissing, to situations where verbal permission is given), Walsh described the contents of the book as "woke," and controversially jested, "I violate my kids' consent all the time, in the sense that I force them to do things they don't want to do... clean their room... is that forced labor? Is that slavery?".https://youtu.be/icPDEmizDAA?t=193
In October 2022, Media Matters for America, a left-wing watchdog group, discovered a decade-old clip from a shock-jock radio program Walsh hosted, where he expressed the belief that teenage pregnancy was acceptable as long as the girl is married. Similarly, in November 2022, The Serf Times uncovered another clip in which Walsh shared troubling perspectives on rape and consent, even defending convicted or alleged child sex abusers like defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.https://web.archive.org/web/20230410140439/https://twitter.com/theserfstv/status/1577500016494903298
Moreover, Walsh has been documented stating that 13-year-olds should be considered adults and dismissed the idea of adolescence as a "modern plague." He also made controversial remarks suggesting that 17- and 18-year-old girls who are still in high school have a strong innate desire to settle down and start a family, both biologically and metaphysically.https://web.archive.org/web/20230630214846/https://www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/deleted-matt-walsh-blog-post-calls-concept-adolescence-modern-plague
==Quotes==
* "The pedophile scandal in the Catholic Church is not a pedophile scandal. The vast majority of victims are post-pubescent teens and young men. The real problem in the Church that everyone sees and few will say out loud: gay priests."https://web.archive.org/web/20180719232210/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1020083096459374593
* "I don't think a doctor should be allowed to do that (gender affirming surgeries) to anyone."https://streamable.com/gj4fcp
* "You are today, cancelled." (at the end of his cancellation videos)
* "Talk to you tomorrow, Godspeed." (show outro)
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