Transphobe of the Year: Matt Walsh

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Transphobe of the Year: Matt Walsh
The right-wing writer and podcaster has raised his profile by spreading grotesque conspiracy theories about “grooming” and pedophilia in the LGBTQ community.



But in a year when Transgender Day of Remembrance was marked by a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, one man stands out from the crowd: Matt Walsh.

The Daily Wire columnist and podcast host has made a name for himself by demonizing medical professionals and pushing conspiracy theories about “grooming” and pedophilia in the LGBTQ community. If the Club Q shooter is a “lone wolf” attacker, we should consider Walsh the unofficial pack leader. While the bodies were still warm, the host of The Matt Walsh Show would log on to say, “If [drag shows] are causing this much chaos and violence, why do you insist on continuing to do it? If, according to you, it’s like putting people’s lives at risk, if the effort to have men cross-dress in front of children is putting people’s lives at risk, why are you still doing it?” It’s a crowded field, but The New Republic has crowned Walsh 2022’s Transphobe of the Year.

Walsh launched his fetid career in the same manner as many of the worst of the right-wing swamp: conservative talk radio. Walsh has since gone on to create Johnny the Walrus, an allegorical children’s picture book about a boy who pretends to be a walrus (it reached No. 1 on Amazon’s LGBTQ bestsellers list), and What Is a Woman?, a feature-length documentary on “gender ideology.”

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The guy is deeply dangerous as well. Walsh’s most disturbing narratives have centered on children. In August, after Walsh called for an “organized effort” against medical facilities that “butcher children,” Boston Children’s Hospital, home to the first pediatric and adolescent transgender health program, received its first

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bomb threat. Walsh, undeterred by the real-world effect of his fearmongering, continued to push the claim that the hospital was “mutilating children.” When the hospital received its second bomb threat in early September, Walsh claimed it was a “false alarm” and a “leftist hoax,” before turning his attention to Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s trans health clinic.

In a Twitter thread that mimics the tone of an investigative journalist who’s just got their hands on Trump’s tax returns, Walsh claimed in late September that the Vanderbilt clinic “drugs, chemically castrates, and performs double mastectomies on minors.” That day, Republican Governor Bill Lee called for a “thorough investigation” of the clinic. Two and a half weeks later, Vanderbilt announced that it would be temporarily suspending gender-affirming care for patients under 18 after Tennessee lawmakers wrote a letter to its board of directors.

[Permanut]

1. Thanks for the alert on this guy..

Another proud bigot.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

2. his primary platform is youtube. He posts daily... primary target is trans people and drag

[regnaD kciN]

5. He also heavily advertises there...

Many, many times when I go to watch a video, no matter what the subject, there will be a "sponsored" box at the top of the sidebar recommending his latest. That can't come cheap -- I wonder where he gets the advertising $$$?

[Beautiful Disaster]

3. Proud bigot who said it was perfectly fine to impregnate 16 year olds.

https://www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/deleted-matt-walsh-blog-post-calls-concept-adolescence-modern-plague

[SoCalDavidS]

4. People Like Him Are Why I'm Ashamed To Be An American nt

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

6. The LGBTQ+ community is focused, and plotting

to vote the QOP into the dustbin of history, and put slimy hate driven creeps like Walsh back under the rocks that they crawled out from.

Unity and solidarity against all manifestations of fascism.