Matt Walsh (political commentator)

{{Short description|American right-wing commentator (born 1986)}}

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| employer = The Daily Wire

| years_active = 2010–present

| known_for = Opposition to LGBT community, anti-transgender commentary, conservative views

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| movement = American conservatism, 2020s anti-LGBT movement in the United States

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Matt Walsh (born June 18, 1986){{cite tweet|last=Walsh|first=Matt|user=MattWalshBlog|date= June 11, 2020 |number= 1271244136922976262 |title=Almost 34 years of life and I've just now discovered the wonders of the charcoal chimney starter. I can now be free from the bondage of lighter fluid.|access-date= December 7, 2022}}{{cite tweet |last=Walsh |first=Matt |user=MattWalshBlog |date=June 18, 2020 |number=1273583537254432768 |title=It's Matt's birthday everyone!!! He doesn't want people to make a big deal out of it. So I hacked his Twitter. – Alissa |access-date=December 7, 2022}} is an American right-wing political commentator and podcast host. He hosts the podcast The Matt Walsh Show, and regularly appears on the American conservative website The Daily Wire. Walsh has authored four books and starred in The Daily Wire documentary films What Is a Woman? and Am I Racist?

Walsh began his career in 2010 as a talk radio host for two stations in Delaware, before moving to Kentucky and launching his own website in 2012. He left WLAP in Kentucky when his show was cancelled in December 2013 and joined Blaze Media in 2014. He joined The Daily Wire in 2017, and began hosting The Matt Walsh Show in 2018. Walsh has appeared on several nationally syndicated publications and talk shows.

Walsh opposes transgender rights and has campaigned in opposition to groups providing or encouraging transgender health care, particularly for minors.{{Cite web |last=Knox |first=Liam |date=September 26, 2022 |title=Attack on Vanderbilt Clinic Has Ripple Effects |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/26/trans-health-clinic-weathers-political-firestorm |access-date=September 27, 2022 |website=Inside Higher Ed |language=en}}{{Cite web |author=Media Matters Staff |date=September 30, 2022 |title=The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh says he supports a universal ban on all gender-affirming medical care |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/daily-wires-matt-walsh-says-he-supports-universal-ban-all-gender-affirming-medical-care |access-date=June 7, 2023 |website=Media Matters for America |language=en}} In 2022, Walsh released Johnny the Walrus, a children's book in which he compared being transgender to pretending to be a walrus, and What Is a Woman?, a documentary film about gender identity in the United States.{{Cite web |date=June 2, 2022 |title=Matt Walsh's 'What Is A Woman?' doc kicks off Pride Month |url=https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/06/02/what-is-a-woman-documentary/ |access-date=July 2, 2023 |website=HITC |language=en-GB |archive-date=June 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602182636/https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/06/02/what-is-a-woman-documentary/ |url-status=dead }} Walsh has campaigned against several hospitals, comparing the transgender healthcare they provide to child sexual abuse, genital mutilation, and rape.

Career

Walsh was born and raised in Baltimore County, Maryland.{{cite web|last1=Walsh |first1=Matt |title=Trump Is Right About Baltimore The Matt Walsh Show Ep. 305 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFtZmwGddso |website=YouTube |date=July 29, 2019 |publisher=The Daily Wire |access-date=March 6, 2025}} He began his career as a talk radio co-host of The Matt and Crank Program at WZBH 93.5 FM in Georgetown, Delaware, from early 2010 to August 1, 2011. Walsh then moved to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, with WGMD 92.7 FM later that month, where he worked for less than a year.{{cite web |last1=Drennen |first1=Ari |last2=Campbell |first2=Jason |last3=Gingerich |first3= Mia |last4=Paterson |first4=Alex |date=October 4, 2022 |title= Matt Walsh's sordid history as a radio host, exposed |url= https://www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/matt-walshs-sordid-history-radio-host-exposed |website= Media Matters |access-date=October 5, 2022}}{{cite web |date=August 16, 2011 |title=Ex-WZBH Host Matt Walsh to 92.7 WGMD |url=http://www.wgmd.com/?p=32211 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111212224026/http://www.wgmd.com/?p=32211 |archive-date=December 12, 2011 |website=WGMD |access-date=November 24, 2022 |url-status=dead}} In 2012, he moved to Lexington, Kentucky, joining NewsRadio 630 WLAP{{citation needed|date=July 2023}} and launching a website, The Matt Walsh Blog, in which he discussed various issues from a conservative point of view. Walsh announced in December 2013 that he was "leaving radio forever" to focus on blogging after his show was canceled.{{cite web |last=Drennen |first=Ari |date=October 4, 2022 |title=Matt Walsh's sordid history as a radio host, exposed |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/matt-walshs-sordid-history-radio-host-exposed |website=Media Matters for America}}

Walsh began working for conservative media outlet Blaze Media starting in October 2014.{{cite web |title=Popular Conservative Commentator Is Officially Joining TheBlaze |url=http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/10/01/popular-conservative-commentator-is-officially-joining-theblaze |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171118055551/http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/10/01/popular-conservative-commentator-is-officially-joining-theblaze |archive-date=November 18, 2017|website=The Blaze|access-date=December 10, 2021}} He was also a contributor to HuffPost{{cite web|title=Matt Walsh |url=https://www.huffpost.com/author/matt-walsh|access-date=November 15, 2021|website= Huff Post |archive-date=November 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115044251/https://www.huffpost.com/author/matt-walsh|url-status=live}} and began writing for The Daily Wire in October 2017.{{cite tweet |last=Walsh |first=Matt |user=MattWalshBlog |number=919933941360062465 |date=October 16, 2017 |title=I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined The Daily Wire: https://t.co/1EEEskWvWr |access-date=January 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117092831/https://twitter.com/mattwalshblog/status/919933941360062465 |archive-date=November 17, 2021 |url-status=live}} He has appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight,{{cite web |last=Stabile|first=Angelica|date=July 7, 2021|title=Why aren't America's classrooms fitted with cameras? Matt Walsh weighs in |url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/why-arent-americas-classrooms-fitted-with-cameras-matt-walsh-weighs-in |access-date=November 15, 2021|website=Fox News|language=en-US|archive-date=November 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115044251/https://www.foxnews.com/media/why-arent-americas-classrooms-fitted-with-cameras-matt-walsh-weighs-in|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|title=Matt Walsh: Masking no longer about COVID, it's a symbol of 'wokeness' |url= http://video.foxnews.com/v/6249235692001/|access-date=November 15, 2021|website=Fox News |date= April 17, 2021 |archive-date=November 15, 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211115044255/https://video.foxnews.com/v/6249235692001/ |url-status= live}} The Ingraham Angle,{{Cite web|last=Brown|first=Jon|date=September 28, 2021|title=Conservative commentator accuses Loudoun County school board of being 'child abusers'|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/daily-wire-commentator-accuses-loudoun-county-school-board-of-being-child-abusers |access-date= November 15, 2021|website=Fox News|language=en-US|archive-date=November 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115044318/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/daily-wire-commentator-accuses-loudoun-county-school-board-of-being-child-abusers|url-status=live}} Fox and Friends,{{Cite web |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-and-friends-trump-twitter_n_5fa40745c5b6f1e97fe764de |title= 'Fox & Friends' Says Trump Should Leave Twitter And Take His Followers |date=November 5, 2020 |access-date=June 9, 2022 |archive-date=June 9, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220609122151/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-and-friends-trump-twitter_n_5fa40745c5b6f1e97fe764de |url-status= live }}{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-and-friends-guest-gillette-ad-same-as-showing-women-gossiping-nagging |title='Fox & Friends' Guest: Gillette Ad Same as Showing Women 'Gossiping,' 'Nagging' |newspaper=The Daily Beast |date=January 16, 2019 |access-date=June 9, 2022 |archive-date=June 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220609122152/https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-and-friends-guest-gillette-ad-same-as-showing-women-gossiping-nagging |url-status=live |last1=Messer |first1=Olivia }} Dr. Phil,{{Cite web|last=Rogers|first=Zachary|date=January 20, 2022|title='What is a woman?': Controversy after Dr. Phil puts non-binary guests against conservative|url=https://kcby.com/news/nation-world/what-is-a-woman-controversy-after-dr-phil-faces-non-binary-guests-against-matt-walsh-gender-sex|url-status=live|access-date=January 21, 2022|website=Sinclair Broadcast Group|archive-date=January 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121025432/https://kcby.com/news/nation-world/what-is-a-woman-controversy-after-dr-phil-faces-non-binary-guests-against-matt-walsh-gender-sex}} as well as the podcast The Joe Rogan Experience.

Walsh hosted The Matt Walsh Show on YouTube starting in April 2018 on weekdays; it is an hour in length.{{cite web|url=https://www.insideradio.com/free/ben-shapiro-drops-radio-only-hour-making-room-for-the-daily-wire-s-matt-walsh/article_c7fa5384-7227-11ed-962e-fbdad25adede.html|title=Ben Shapiro Drops Radio-Only Hour, Making Room For The Daily Wire{{'}}s Matt Walsh.|date=December 2, 2022|website=Inside Radio|access-date=June 1, 2023}} According to Walsh, the show made $100,000 per month through advertisement revenue. Walsh announced in April 2023 that the show was being moved to the Daily Wire website after his YouTube channel was demonetized for repeatedly misgendering transgender woman Dylan Mulvaney.{{cite web|last=Owen|first=Greg|date=April 21, 2023|title=Hate troll Matt Walsh loses YouTube & Twitter platforms partly because of his Dylan Mulvaney hatred|url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/04/hate-troll-matt-walsh-loses-youtube-twitter-platforms-partly-because-of-his-dylan-mulvaney-hatred/|website=LGBTQ Nation|access-date=May 19, 2023}}

Walsh's work has been supported by J. K. Rowling,{{Cite web |last=Price |first=Joe |title=Daniel Radcliffe Says It Was 'Important' for Him to Speak Out Against J.K Rowling's Transphobic Comments |url=https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/backwoodsaltar/daniel-radcliffe-why-he-spoke-out-against-jk-rowling |access-date=July 2, 2023 |website=Complex |language=en-us}} Elon Musk,{{Cite web |last=McDade |first=Paul Squire, Aaron |title=Elon Musk spent the last 24 hours spreading increasingly unhinged anti-trans content |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-shares-anti-trans-content-twitter-2023-6 |access-date=July 2, 2023 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=June 12, 2023 |title=Elon Musk Celebrates Pride Month By Going On An Anti-Trans Tweeting Spree |url=https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-celebrates-pride-month-232039212.html |access-date=July 2, 2023 |website=Yahoo News |language=en-US}} and some Republican legislators.{{Cite web |last=Rook |first=Erin |date=June 8, 2022 |title=The dangerous deception of Matt Walsh's documentary "What is a Woman?" |url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/dangerous-deception-matt-walshs-documentary-woman/ |access-date=July 2, 2023 |website=LGBTQ Nation}} Rowling argued that Walsh's work "exposed" the "incoherence of gender identity."{{cite web |last=Chudy |first=Emily |date=July 11, 2022 |title=JK Rowling criticised for praising 'dangerous' anti-trans film by far-right bigot |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/07/11/jk-rowling-matt-walsh/ |access-date=June 28, 2023 |website=PinkNews }}

In 2023, Walsh starred in a Daily Wire comedy film, Lady Ballers, which debuted on December 1, 2023. He portrayed the character of Kris Dilby, a "woke" beatnik.{{Citation |title=Lady Ballers |date=December 1, 2023 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30216176/ |access-date=December 4, 2023 |publisher=IMDb}}

=Cancellations=

St. Francis Xavier College Church, at Saint Louis University, canceled a speech by Walsh that it had planned to co-host with Young Americans for Freedom in December 2021. The church said it had decided that Walsh's "provocative positions on immigration, on communities of color, on Muslims, and on members of the LGBTQ community" were "in contradiction to Jesus' great commandment to love God and love our neighbor".{{cite web |last=Hansford |first=Amelia |date=November 11, 2023 |title=Anti-trans pundit Matt Walsh thinks he knows Catholic doctrine better than the Pope |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/11/matt-walsh-pope-teachings-anti-trans/ |access-date=November 25, 2023 |website=PinkNews }}{{Cite web|last=Mayberry|first=Carly|date=December 1, 2021|title=Catholic Church Cancels YAF-Sponsored Anti-Abortion Talk by Matt Walsh as Faculty Protest|url=https://www.newsweek.com/catholic-church-cancels-yaf-sponsored-anti-abortion-talk-matt-walsh-faculty-protest-1655068|url-status=live|access-date=January 21, 2022|website=Newsweek|archive-date=January 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125234621/https://www.newsweek.com/catholic-church-cancels-yaf-sponsored-anti-abortion-talk-matt-walsh-faculty-protest-1655068}} Walsh subsequently spoke at a different St. Louis venue.{{Cite web|last=Hecker|first=Caroline|date=December 1, 2021|title=Daily Wire's Matt Walsh invited to speak at SLU, sparks protests in the streets|url=https://www.kmov.com/news/daily-wires-matt-walsh-invited-to-speak-at-slu-sparks-protests-in-the-streets/article_f3b8b838-5321-11ec-8e58-cffdb2e93e89.html|url-status=live|access-date=January 21, 2022|website=KMOV.com|language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204053750/https://www.kmov.com/news/daily-wires-matt-walsh-invited-to-speak-at-slu-sparks-protests-in-the-streets/article_f3b8b838-5321-11ec-8e58-cffdb2e93e89.html |archive-date=December 4, 2021}} In 2023, the University of San Diego, a private Catholic educational institution, refused Walsh permission to speak on campus, for the reason that they regarded his opinions as "grossly offensive".{{cite web|url=https://www.tpusa.com/live/matt-walsh-prevented-from-speaking-at-catholic-university-for-grossly-offensive-beliefs|title=Matt Walsh Prevented from Speaking at Catholic University for 'Grossly Offensive' Beliefs|date=August 24, 2023 |publisher=Turning Point U.S.A.}}

=''Johnny the Walrus''=

On March 29, 2022, DW Books published Walsh's children's book Johnny the Walrus, which compares being trans to identifying as a walrus.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson called the book "hilarious". Conservative news website TheBlaze called the book "an effort to push back against radical gender ideology which defies biological reality". The satirist Andrew Doyle, writing in UnHerd, praised the book for mocking the "indoctrination of the young".{{Cite web |last=Doyle |first=Andrew |date=May 17, 2022 |title=How to stop children being indoctrinated |url=https://unherd.com/2022/05/how-to-stop-children-being-indoctrinated/ |access-date=May 21, 2022 |website=UnHerd |language=en-GB}} LGBTQ Nation denounced the book, calling it "anti-transgender" and a mockery of transgender youth, while PinkNews referred to it as "hateful" and "transphobic".{{Cite web |last=Bollinger |first=Alex |date=December 9, 2021 |title=Best-selling LGBTQ book on Amazon is an anti-transgender picture book |url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/12/amazon-pushes-ridiculously-transphobic-book-lgbtq-readers/ |access-date=October 1, 2022 |website=LGBTQ Nation}}{{cite web |last=Wakefield |first=Lily |date=December 9, 2021 |title=Amazon lists hateful, transphobic book as number one 'LGBT+ best seller' |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/09/amazon-trans-johnny-walrus-matt-walsh-lgbt/ |access-date=October 1, 2022 |website=PinkNews }} It was listed as the bestselling LGBT+-related book on Amazon in December 2021 before Amazon recategorized it to Political and Social Commentary. Walsh called the recategorization "an unconscionable attack on gay rights and a horrific example of homophobia and gay erasure". Target removed the book from its online bookstore on the same day.{{Cite web |last=Migdon |first=Brooke |date=December 10, 2021 |title=Amazon recategorizes book comparing being trans to pretending to be a walrus |url=https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/arts-culture/585316-amazon-recategorizes-book-comparing-being-trans-to/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220716043728/https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/arts-culture/585316-amazon-recategorizes-book-comparing-being-trans-to/ |archive-date=July 16, 2022 |access-date=July 16, 2022 |website=The Hill |language=en-US}}

=''What Is a Woman?''=

Walsh's online documentary, What Is a Woman? was released by The Daily Wire on June 1, 2022, at the start of Pride Month. In the film, Walsh asks various people the question, "What is a woman?" while presenting his own views on the topic.{{refn|{{cite web |last=Rafter |first=Darcy |date=June 2, 2022 |title=Matt Walsh's 'What Is A Woman?' doc kicks off Pride Month |url=https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/06/02/what-is-a-woman-documentary/ |website=HITC |language=en-GB |access-date=June 2, 2022 |archive-date=June 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602182636/https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/06/02/what-is-a-woman-documentary/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last=Graham |first=Jennifer |date=June 5, 2022 |title=Perspective: 'What is a woman?' Why most people couldn't answer Matt Walsh |url=https://www.deseret.com/2022/6/4/23153551/he-asked-what-is-a-woman-most-people-couldnt-answer-matt-walsh-daily-wire-gender-ideology |website=Deseret News |language=en-US |access-date=June 5, 2022 |archive-date=June 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220605192313/https://www.deseret.com/2022/6/4/23153551/he-asked-what-is-a-woman-most-people-couldnt-answer-matt-walsh-daily-wire-gender-ideology |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last=Williams |first=Kori |date=June 3, 2022 |title=A New Documentary Is Asking: "What Is a Woman?" |url=https://www.distractify.com/p/where-to-watch-what-is-a-woman-documentary |access-date=June 5, 2022 |website=Distractify |language=en-US |archive-date=June 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220605195408/https://www.distractify.com/p/where-to-watch-what-is-a-woman-documentary |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last=Goforth |first=Claire |date=June 3, 2022 |title=Did the Daily Wire actually get hit with a DDoS attack during the launch of its transphobic new documentary? |url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/daily-wire-ddos-cyberattack-transphobic-documentary/ |access-date=June 4, 2022 |website=The Daily Dot |language=en-US |archive-date=June 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220604154311/https://www.dailydot.com/debug/daily-wire-ddos-cyberattack-transphobic-documentary/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Flaherty |first=Colleen |date=August 19, 2022 |title=UC Santa Cruz grad student targeted for trans activism |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/08/19/uc-santa-cruz-grad-student-targeted-trans-activism |access-date=November 14, 2022 |website=www.insidehighered.com |language=en}}}} Walsh had asked the same question in other appearances, including a Dr. Phil show on January 19, 2022, with transgender and non-binary people.{{Cite news |last=Chung |first=Frank |date=June 24, 2022 |title=Health boss Brendan Murphy provides 78-word definition of 'woman' |work=news.com.au |url=https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/health-boss-brendan-murphy-provides-78word-definition-of-woman/news-story/d7c4bc4b0bf81ec6e50023b0653743aa |access-date=July 12, 2022 |archive-date=June 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220624043346/https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/health-boss-brendan-murphy-provides-78word-definition-of-woman/news-story/d7c4bc4b0bf81ec6e50023b0653743aa |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Reddish |first=David |date=January 20, 2022 |title=Dr. Phil's show yesterday was a transphobic trainwreck and we don't even know where to begin |url=https://www.queerty.com/dr-phils-show-yesterday-transphobic-trainwreck-dont-even-know-begin-20220120 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628003318/https://www.queerty.com/dr-phils-show-yesterday-transphobic-trainwreck-dont-even-know-begin-20220120 |archive-date=June 28, 2022 |website=Queerty |access-date=June 28, 2022}} On June 14, Walsh published a book based on the documentary, entitled What Is a Woman?: One Man's Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation through DW Books.{{Cite book|last=Walsh|first=Matt|author-link=Matt Walsh (political commentator)|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1322213918|title=What Is a Woman?: One Man's Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation|date=2022|isbn=978-1956007008|publisher=DW Books|location=Nashville, TN|oclc=1322213918}}

The documentary received a divided reception from critics and political commentators. Detractors, such as AJ Erkert of Science-Based Medicine and Erin Rook of LGBTQ Nation, denounced the film as "propaganda", "transphobic lies", and "science denying". Erkert compared the documentary to the antiscience films Vaxxed and Expelled.{{Cite web|last=Rook|first=Erin|date=June 8, 2022|title=The dangerous deception of Matt Walsh's documentary "What is a Woman?"|url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/dangerous-deception-matt-walshs-documentary-woman/|access-date=November 13, 2022|website=LGBTQ Nation}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_391#LGBTQ_Nation|date=June 2023}} Conservative commentators, such as Rich Lowry and Rod Dreher, praised the film as "mesmerizing" and "excellent".{{cite news |last=Lowry |first=Rich |title=You'll Never Think of a Chicken Crying the Same Way Ever Again |newspaper=National Review |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/youll-never-think-of-a-chicken-crying-the-same-way-ever-again/}}{{Cite web |last=Dreher |first=Rod |date=June 9, 2022 |title=Courage & 'What Is A Woman?' |url=https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/courage-matt-walsh-scott-newgent-what-is-a-woman/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220609125401/https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/courage-matt-walsh-scott-newgent-what-is-a-woman/ |archive-date=June 9, 2022 |access-date=June 9, 2022 |website=The American Conservative |language=en-US}} Dimitrije Vojnov of Radio Television of Serbia said that Walsh could become the American right's equivalent of Michael Moore, and just as biased.{{cite news |last=Vojnov |first=Dimitrije |date=June 9, 2022 |title=Rod, pol i žene gledane očima američke desnice |language=sh |trans-title=Gender, sex and women seen through the eyes of the American right |website=Radio Television of Serbia |url=https://www.rts.rs/page/magazine/sr/story/411/film-i-tv/4844292/sta-je-zena-dzastin-folk.html}}

Eventbrite banned screenings of the documentary due to the service not permitting content that promotes "hate, violence, or harassment towards others and/or oneself". Walsh denied that the documentary was hate speech and accused Eventbrite of hypocrisy for permitting the screening of drag shows that allow children in attendance, which Walsh considers a form of grooming.{{Cite web|last=Villarreal|first=Daniel|date=September 9, 2022|title=Anti-trans troll Matt Walsh is upset that Eventbrite won't allow screenings of his film|url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/09/anti-trans-troll-matt-walsh-upset-eventbrite-wont-allow-showings-film/|access-date=September 30, 2022|website=LGBTQ Nation|language=en}}

In February 2022, Eli Erlick, a transgender activist, alleged that Walsh had invited dozens of people to participate in the documentary under false pretenses.{{cite news |date=February 8, 2022 |title=Anti-Trans Matt Walsh tries to lure Trans people into fake documentary |url=https://www.losangelesblade.com/2022/02/08/anti-trans-matt-walsh-tries-to-lure-trans-people-into-fake-documentary/ |work=Los Angeles Blade |access-date=February 8, 2022 |archive-date=February 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220209011537/https://www.losangelesblade.com/2022/02/08/anti-trans-matt-walsh-tries-to-lure-trans-people-into-fake-documentary/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Collman |first=Ashley |date=February 10, 2022 |title=Trans activists accuse conservative podcaster Matt Walsh of trying to lure them into participating in an anti-trans documentary |url=https://www.insider.com/matt-walsh-accused-luring-trans-people-into-anti-trans-doc-2022-2 |website=Insider |language=en-US |access-date=July 6, 2022 |archive-date=July 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707010708/https://www.insider.com/matt-walsh-accused-luring-trans-people-into-anti-trans-doc-2022-2 |url-status=live }} Kataluna Enriquez, Fallon Fox, and other transgender public figures corroborated the account. Walsh created a group called the Gender Unity Project, which the activists said attempted to lure them into participating in the film.{{Cite news |last=Collman |first=Ashley |date=February 15, 2022 |title=Conservative film crew continues to try and trick trans activists into appearing in mysterious documentary, Miss Nevada USA says |url=https://www.insider.com/miss-nevada-usa-also-targeted-by-anti-trans-documentary-crew-2022-2 |work=Business Insider |language=en-US |access-date=February 19, 2022 |archive-date=July 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707010708/https://www.insider.com/miss-nevada-usa-also-targeted-by-anti-trans-documentary-crew-2022-2 |url-status=live }} The Gender Unity Project's Twitter account and website{{Cite web |date=July 20, 1023 |title=Gender Unity Project LLC |url=https://genderunityproject.org/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208054526/https://genderunityproject.org/ |archive-date=February 8, 2022 |access-date=July 20, 2023 |website=Gender Unity Project LLC}} were taken down shortly after the allegations went public.{{Cite magazine |last=Mendez II |first=Moises |date=June 10, 2022 |title=Why Are Social Media Companies Taking Ad Money From a Right-Wing Transphobic Doc? |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/matt-walsh-daily-wire-documentary-1364210/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US |access-date=June 10, 2022 |archive-date=July 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702013714/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/matt-walsh-daily-wire-documentary-1364210/ |url-status=live }} Erlick claimed there were at least 50 other recruited interviewees, including a 14-year-old transgender girl.{{Cite news |last=Baragona |first=Justin |date=February 8, 2022 |title=Far-Right Troll Tried to Dupe Trans People Into Joining His Anti-Trans Documentary |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-daily-wires-matt-walsh-tried-to-dupe-trans-people-into-joining-his-anti-trans-documentary |work=The Daily Beast |language=en-US |access-date=July 6, 2022 |archive-date=February 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220209003823/https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-daily-wires-matt-walsh-tried-to-dupe-trans-people-into-joining-his-anti-trans-documentary |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Parsons |first=Vic |date=February 10, 2022 |title=Anti-trans troll Matt Walsh 'tried to trick trans people into fake documentary' |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/10/matt-walsh-fake-trans-documentary/ |access-date=July 6, 2022 |website=Pink News |language=en-GB |archive-date=June 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622183312/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/10/matt-walsh-fake-trans-documentary/ |url-status=live }}

Walsh's What Is a Woman? college tour attracted protests of his appearances for screenings at University of Houston and the University of Wisconsin.{{Cite news |last=Ketterer |first=Samantha |date=October 13, 2022 |title=Hundreds of transgender rights allies protest Matt Walsh's 'What is a Woman?' speech at UH |url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/Transgender-rights-supporters-to-protest-Matt-17506737.php |access-date=October 19, 2022 |website=Houston Chronicle |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=October 14, 2022 |title=Students gather to protest conservative filmmaker Matt Walsh's appearance at University of Houston |url=https://abc13.com/uh-protest-matt-walsh-university-of-houston-what-is-a-women-documentary-conservative-filmmaker/12328833/ |access-date=October 19, 2022 |website=ABC13 Houston |language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Thibert|first=Audery|date=October 25, 2022|title=Matt Walsh visit to UW campus elicits protest, contention|url=https://badgerherald.com/news/2022/10/25/matt-walsh-visit-to-uw-campus-elicits-protest-contention/|website=The Badger Herald|access-date=November 28, 2022|language=en}}{{cite web|last=Hansford|first=Amelia|date=October 31, 2022|title=Student eats Bible pages to protest anti-trans bigot Matt Walsh's campus visit|url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/student-eats-bible-pages-to-protest-anti-trans-bigot-matt-walshs-campus-visit/|website=PinkNews|access-date=November 28, 2022}}

For June Pride Month of 2023, The Daily Wire made What is a Woman? available for free on Twitter. The Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing tweeted that Twitter had canceled a plan to promote the video for "hateful conduct," reportedly because of misgendering, and said the video was being suppressed. Twitter CEO Elon Musk initially agreed to lift only some restrictions, but after pressure removed all restrictions and personally promoted the video.{{cite news |last1=Tolentino |first1=Daysia |last2=Ingram |first2=David |date=June 2, 2023 |title=Elon Musk's response to anti-trans video sparked day of chaos at Twitter |language=en |work=NBC News |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/musk-elon-twitter-ella-irwin-trans-video-what-is-a-woman-stream-rcna87429 |access-date=June 3, 2023}}{{cite news |last=Woodward |first=Alex |date=June 5, 2023 |title='Elon Musk promotes transphobic content as hate speech surges on his far-right platform |language=en |work=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-twitter-transgender-hate-speech-b2351923.html |access-date=June 11, 2023}} Chiefs of Twitter's trust and safety division left the company on the same day. The film's tally on Twitter showed more than 62 million views (previously known as impressions{{Cite web |date=April 1, 2023 |title=What Are Twitter Impressions & Why Do They Matter? {{!}} Statusbrew |url=https://statusbrew.com/insights/twitter-impressions/ |access-date=October 31, 2023 |website=Statusbrew Insights |language=en}}) as of the afternoon of June 2 and 177 million for the week.{{cite web |last1=Arnold |first1=Tyler |date=June 7, 2023 |title=One Year After its Initial Release, 'What Is A Woman?' Passes 177 Million Views on Twitter Within A Week |url=https://www.ncregister.com/cna/one-year-after-its-initial-release-what-is-a-woman-passes-177-million-views-on-twitter-within-a-week |access-date=June 8, 2023 |website=National Catholic Register}} Walsh called Musk's promotion of the film a "huge win".

=''Am I Racist?''=

Walsh starred in, co-wrote, and co-produced the documentary film Am I Racist?, released on September 13, 2024, which lampooned the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movement. Described as a mockumentary in the style of Borat,{{Cite web |last=Siegel |first=Tatiana |date=September 13, 2024 |title=Matt Walsh Satire 'Am I Racist?' Hits 1,500-Plus Theaters as Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire Bets Big for Movie Dominance |url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/matt-walsh-am-i-racist-daily-wire-gamble-1236142545/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240921231205/https://variety.com/2024/film/news/matt-walsh-am-i-racist-daily-wire-gamble-1236142545/ |archive-date=September 21, 2024 |access-date=September 15, 2024 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=September 14, 2024 |title=Matt Walsh's 'Am I Racist?' mockumentary disses DEI |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/matt-walsh-am-racist-mockumentary-014645394.html |access-date=September 15, 2024 |website=News Nation |language=en-US |via=Yahoo News |archive-date=September 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240915000601/https://www.yahoo.com/news/matt-walsh-am-racist-mockumentary-014645394.html |url-status=live }} it grossed $12.3 million against a production budget of $3 million, becoming the highest-grossing documentary film of 2024.{{cite web |title=Box Office Performance for Documentary Movies in 2024 |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/market/2024/genre/Documentary |access-date=18 September 2024 |website=The Numbers |publisher= |archive-date=September 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240921231130/https://www.the-numbers.com/market/2024/genre/Documentary |url-status=live }}

Views

Walsh's views have mainly been described as right-wing{{cite web |date=July 6, 2022 |title=Fact Check-No evidence that U.S. schoolchildren are self-identifying as animals and disrupting classrooms |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-furries-school-idUSL1N2YN1O2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220723044446/https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-furries-school-idUSL1N2YN1O2 |archive-date=July 23, 2022 |access-date=July 23, 2022 |website=Reuters |language=en}}{{Cite web |last1=Zadrozny |first1=Brandy|author-link=Brandy Zadrozny |last2=McCausland |first2=Phil |title=Boston Children's Hospital warns employees over far-right online harassment campaign |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/boston-childrens-hospital-warns-employees-far-right-online-harassment-rcna43376 |access-date=October 1, 2022 |website=NBC News |date=August 16, 2022 |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Woodward |first=Alex |date=August 31, 2022 |title=Police clear bomb threat to Boston Children's Hospital after far-right harassment |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/boston-childrens-hospital-bomb-threat-b2156865.html |access-date=October 1, 2022 |website=The Independent |language=en}} and conservative,{{Cite web |last=Rottenberg |first=Josh |date=2025-01-19 |title=Inside the rise of the conservative movie industry behind 'Reagan,' 'Am I Racist?' |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-01-19/am-i-racist-matt-walsh-daily-wire-jeremy-boreing-conservative-movie-industry-reagan |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Los Angeles Times |quote=Produced by the Daily Wire and fronted by conservative commentator Matt Walsh}}{{Cite web |last=Lavietes |first=Matt |date=October 31, 2022 |title=Far-right figures appear to be testing Twitter's boundaries for anti-LGBTQ speech |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/open-season-lgbtq-people-far-right-celebrates-liberation-twitter-rcna54542 |access-date=November 8, 2022 |website=NBC News |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Social media posts spark calls to investigate Tenn.'s VUMC |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/social-media-posts-spark-calls-to-investigate-tenns-vumc/2022/09/21/5cbad35a-39e2-11ed-b8af-0a04e5dc3db6_story.html |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=September 23, 2022}}{{Cite news |last1=Giles |first1=Christopher |last2=Robinson |first2=Olga |last3=Sardarizadeh |first3=Shayan |date=November 6, 2020 |title=US election 2020: How a misleading post went from the fringes to Trump's Twitter |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54838684 |access-date=October 1, 2022}} but also as far-right.{{Cite web |date=August 24, 2023 |title=Killing over Pride flag follows far right's years of criticism of the LGBTQ symbol |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/killing-pride-flag-follows-far-rights-years-criticism-lgbtq-symbol-rcna101478 |access-date=October 31, 2023 |website=NBC News |language=en}}{{cite web |last=Billson |first=Chantelle |date=May 31, 2023 |title=Daily Wire trolls reveal sinister plan to make Pride 'toxic' to brands |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/31/michael-knowles-matt-walsh-boycott-pride-toxic/ |access-date=October 31, 2023 |website=PinkNews }} His commentary is sometimes described by media outlets as trolling or provocation.{{cite web |last1=Baker-Whitelaw |first1=Gavia |title=JK Rowling endorses transphobic documentary by alt-right commentator Matt Walsh |url=https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/jk-rowling-matt-walsh-transphobia/ |website=The Daily Dot |access-date=July 23, 2022 |date=July 11, 2022 |archive-date=July 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220717170131/https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/jk-rowling-matt-walsh-transphobia/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |first=Graig |last=Graziosi|date=June 5, 2021 |title=Rightwing blogger launches gofundme for AOC's Puerto Rico grandmother in latest personal attack |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/blogger-aoc-puerto-rico-grandmother-b1860097.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220512/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/blogger-aoc-puerto-rico-grandmother-b1860097.html |archive-date=May 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=The Independent |language=en-GB |access-date=November 15, 2021}}{{Cite web |last=Russell |first=John |title=Anti-trans troll Matt Walsh says Black mermaids aren't "scientific" in on-air meltdown |url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/09/anti-trans-troll-matt-walsh-says-black-mermaids-arent-scientific-air-meltdown/ |access-date=September 19, 2022 |website=LGBTQ Nation|date=September 15, 2022 }} He labels himself a "theocratic fascist" in his Twitter biography,{{cite web |last=Noor |first=Poppy |date=August 8, 2021 |title='It was just unconscionable': Cori Bush on her fight to extend the eviction moratorium |url=http://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/08/cori-bush-interview-eviction-moratorium |access-date=October 23, 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}{{cite web |last=Lukpat |first=Alyssa |title=Ben Shapiro, right-wing pundit, to speak at BU, stirring controversy on campus – The Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/10/24/ben-shapiro-right-wing-pundit-speak-nov-stirring-controversy-campus/TxK29yftKttygWbgIvxzUK/story.html |access-date=October 23, 2022 |website=BostonGlobe.com |language=en-US}} which he said was an ironic response to an opponent using the label as an insult.{{cite AV media|last=Walsh|first=Matt|date=April 3, 2019|title=Fine, I Am A Theocratic Fascist|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ypg3fMFzS8|access-date=December 10, 2022|website=YouTube|publisher=DailyWire+|quote=It does say in my Twitter bio that I'm a theocratic fascist, well because a few months ago someone sent me a message, trying to insult me, and the message said: 'hey, y'know, you should put theocratic fascist in your Twitter bio because that's what you are.'|language=en}}

Walsh has argued that the trial of Kenosha unrest shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted, was malicious prosecution.{{Cite news |first=Paul |last=Waldman |date=November 10, 2021 |title=Opinion {{!}} Kyle Rittenhouse's story is a tragedy. The right thinks it's a triumph. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/10/kyle-rittenhouse-trial-tragedy-triumph/ |newspaper=Washington Post |issn=0190-8286 |language=en-US |access-date=November 15, 2021 |archive-date=November 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111004113/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/10/kyle-rittenhouse-trial-tragedy-triumph/ |url-status=live }} He has argued for banning pornography and supports restricting abortion.{{Cite web |last=Given |first=Casey |date=December 9, 2019 |title=The misguided war on pornography and the return of right-wing puritanism |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-misguided-war-on-pornography-and-the-return-of-right-wing-puritanism |access-date=June 3, 2022 |website=Washington Examiner |language=en-US |archive-date=June 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220603053809/https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-misguided-war-on-pornography-and-the-return-of-right-wing-puritanism |url-status=live }} Walsh has argued that ozone depletion and acid rain were never serious problems.{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Doug |title=Past environmental threats didn't just disappear |url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/past-environmental-threats-didnt-just-disappear/ |work=Ars Technica |date=July 22, 2022 |language=en-us |access-date=July 25, 2022 |archive-date=July 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220723181021/https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/past-environmental-threats-didnt-just-disappear/ |url-status=live }}

Regarding the casting of Halle Bailey in the 2023 live-action version of The Little Mermaid, Walsh said on The Daily Wire, "from a scientific perspective, it doesn't make a lot of sense to have someone with darker skin who lives deep in the ocean," and suggested that the mermaid should be translucent instead. Walsh's commentary was mocked on CNN by digital senior entertainment writer Lisa France, who said "racism is real, unfortunately, and people get so offended".{{Cite web |date=September 15, 2022 |title=CNN's Reporter calls out Matt Walsh's Little Mermaid Point |url=https://www.thewrap.com/little-mermaid-racism-cnn-lisa-france-matt-walsh/ |access-date=September 17, 2022 |website=The Wrap |language=en-US}} Later, Walsh said that "Translucent rights are human rights".{{Cite web |date=September 15, 2022 |title=MATT WALSH'S LITTLE MERMAID QUIP IS A FINE KETTLE OF FISH AS TWITTER CHIPS IN |url=https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/09/15/matt-walshs-little-mermaid-quip-is-a-fine-kettle-of-fish-as-twitter-chips-in/ |access-date=September 17, 2022 |website=HITC |language=en-US |archive-date=September 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220915142641/https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/09/15/matt-walshs-little-mermaid-quip-is-a-fine-kettle-of-fish-as-twitter-chips-in/ |url-status=dead }} He jokingly called anime "satanic" in an answer to viewers' questions in one of his videos, adding "I have no argument for why it's satanic. It just seems that way to me."{{Cite web |last=Baio |first=Ariana |date=October 17, 2022 |title=Matt Walsh thinks all anime is Satanic and adults shouldn't be watching cartoons |url=https://www.indy100.com/viral/matt-walsh-anime-satanic |access-date=October 20, 2022 |website=indy100 |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Frauenfelder |first=Mark |date=October 17, 2022 |title=Theocratic fascist Matt Walsh says anime is "satanic" because it "just seems that way to me" |url=https://boingboing.net/2022/10/17/theocratic-fascist-matt-walsh-says-anime-is-satanic-because-it-just-seems-that-way-to-me.html |access-date=October 20, 2022 |website=Boing Boing |language=en-US}} He has called multiculturalism a "failed experiment".{{Cite tweet|last=Walsh|first=Matt|user=MattWalshBlog|date=January 19, 2021|title=He's absolutely right. Multiculturalism is a failed experiment and should be abandoned.|number=1351596625030950915|access-date=January 4, 2023 |website=Twitter |language=en}}{{Third-party inline|date=October 2023|reason=needed for context and WP:DUEWEIGHT}}

After the killing of Austin Metcalf, Walsh commented: "Young black males are violent to a wildly, outrageously disproportionate degree. That’s just a fact. We all know it. And it’s time that we speak honestly about it, or nothing will ever change."{{Cite web |last=Brooks|first=Corey|date=April 22, 2025|title=America still can't put down the race card. And it's the shame of our nation |url=https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/america-still-cant-put-down-race-card-its-shame-our-nation |access-date=April 26, 2025 |work=Fox News |language=en}} In early May 2025, Walsh supported Shiloh Hendrix, the white Minnesota woman caught on video using the word nigger several times towards a 5-year-old black child and the black man who filmed the incident. Walsh expressed satisfaction with Hendrix having raised $500,000 on the crowdfunding site GiveSendGo and hoped that she would raise $500,000 more, saying it was "time to start swinging back."{{Citeweb|url=https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/shiloh-hendrix-slur-karmelo-anthony-stabbing-maga-b2745949.html|title=MAGA turns n-word-shouting woman into folk hero - and blames Texas stabbing case for outpouring of support|last=Baragona|first=Justin|publisher=The Independent|quote=Daily Wire host Matt Walsh said he hopes Shiloh Hendrix raises another ‘half-million dollars’ over the viral video of her calling a young child the ‘n-word,’ saying ‘it was time to start swinging back’|date=May 7, 2025|accessdate=May 24, 2025}}

= Cannabis =

Walsh believes that cannabis should not be legal. He believes that it is more dangerous than alcohol and tobacco, and that it causes violence.{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Matt |date=March 28, 2024 |title=There are many substances that exist in the natural world that you're not supposed to put in your body... |url=https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1773529245664334210 |access-date=May 26, 2024 |website=Twitter}}{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Matt |date=March 28, 2024 |title=As for tobacco and alcohol, the causal usage of either substance is not nearly as harmful to society... |url=https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1773529842148876556 |access-date=May 26, 2024 |website=Twitter}}{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Matt |date=November 16, 2023 |title=Here's What You Don't Know About Marijuana |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOXfUaAazaA |access-date=March 29, 2024 |website=YouTube |language=en}}

=LGBT rights=

Walsh is an opponent of the LGBT rights movement and the LGBT community, in particular the transgender rights movement and the idea of being transgender in general.{{Cite web |last=Villarreal |first=Daniel |date=November 23, 2022 |title=Right-wing media giants say LGBTQ bar patrons are responsible for their own murders |url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/11/right-wing-media-giants-say-lgbtq-bar-patrons-responsible-murders/ |access-date=November 24, 2022 |website=LGBTQ Nation |language=en}}

In February 2021, after a Gallup poll showed a sharp increase of people who identify as LGBT, especially bisexual and transgender, in Generation Z compared to previous generations, Walsh accused "the media, Hollywood, and the school system" of "recruiting" children into the LGBT community. Other commentators quoted by PinkNews argued that Walsh was wrong, attributing the increase to different factors, including an easing of social stigmas among younger people.{{cite web |last=Baska |first=Maggie |date=February 25, 2021 |title=Right-wing YouTuber Matt Walsh thinks kids are being 'recruited into the LGBT ranks'. The backlash was swift and precise |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/25/matt-walsh-lgbt-gallup-poll-ranks-media-americans-lgbt-twitter/ |access-date=October 6, 2022 |website=PinkNews }}

Shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Walsh accused President Joe Biden of feminizing the U.S. military and recruiting lesbians who he said "can't do three pushups", and said that it was "not a coincidence that [Russia's invasion] happened after Biden spent his first year in office focusing primarily on wokeness".{{cite web |last=Wakefield |first=Lily |date=February 26, 2022 |title=Right-wing media is blaming trans rights and Pride flags for Russia's invasion of Ukraine |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/26/ukraine-us-trans-rights-pride-tucker-carlson-matt-walsh/ |access-date=September 30, 2022 |website=PinkNews }}

The New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg argued that Walsh's commentary, as well as that of other right-wing commentators, have caused an increase of anti-LGBT violence and sentiment in the United States.{{cite web|last=Goldberg|first=Michelle|date=November 21, 2022|title=Opinion {{!}} The Massacre at Club Q Was Only a Matter of Time|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/opinion/colorado-springs-shooting.html|website=New York Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221122053735/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/opinion/colorado-springs-shooting.html|archive-date=November 22, 2022|access-date=November 22, 2022|language=en}} The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described Walsh as one of the "peddlers of fear and disinformation about LGBTQ people" in the wake of the Club Q mass shooting in November 2022.{{Cite web |last=Wilson |first=Jason |date=November 22, 2022 |title=Colorado Springs: Far-Right Influencers Made LGBTQ People Into Targets |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/11/22/colorado-springs-far-right-influencers-made-lgbtq-people-targets/ |access-date=November 22, 2022 |website=SPL Center |language=en}} Walsh had previously said opposing all-age drag events was like fighting cancer,{{Cite web |last=Carless |first=Will |title=Club Q attack no surprise for extremism experts who saw looming threat, decades-old pattern |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/11/25/colorado-springs-shooting-extremism-experts-saw-longtime-pattern/10759802002/ |access-date=November 30, 2022 |website=USA Today |language=en-US}} and "just like cancer, stopping it is not a gentle or a painless process".{{Cite web |author=Media Matters Staff |date=October 20, 2022 |title=The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh calls for police to break "down the doors" of drag shows where children are present and charge everyone involved as pedophiles |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/daily-wires-matt-walsh-calls-police-break-down-doors-drag-shows-where-children-are |access-date=November 30, 2022 |website=Media Matters for America |language=en}} Following the shooting, Walsh lambasted critics of his rhetoric as "soulless demons" and "evil to the core", accusing them of using the shooting to "blackmail us into accepting the castration and sexualization of children".{{Cite web|last=Bollinger|first=Alex|date=November 22, 2022|title=Guilty consciences? Conservatives deny responsibility in Club Q shooting|url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/11/guilty-consciences-conservatives-deny-responsibility-club-q-shooting/|website=LGBTQ Nation|access-date=November 23, 2022|language=en}}{{cite web|title=Transgender Americans Feel Under Siege as Political Vitriol Rises|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/us/politics/anti-transgender-lgbtq-threats-attacks.html|date=December 10, 2022|website=The New York Times|first=Maggie|last=Astor}} He also rhetorically asked those on the left who felt that "the drag queen-child combination" would lead to "violent backlash" from right-wingers, "if it's causing this much chaos and violence, why do you insist on continuing to do it?"{{Cite web |last1=Goggin |first1=Ben |last2=Tenbarge |first2=Kat |title=Right-wing influencers and media double down on anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in the wake of the Colorado shooting |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/right-wing-influencers-media-double-anti-lgbtq-rhetoric-wake-colorado-rcna58371 |access-date=November 30, 2022 |website=NBC News |date=November 23, 2022 |language=en}}{{cite web|first=Jeet|last=Heer|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/society/club-q-shooting-lynching/|title=The Club Q Massacre and the New Culture of Lynching|date=November 28, 2022|website=The Nation|access-date=November 30, 2022|language=en}} Jeet Heer from The Nation described Walsh's comments, along with those of a few other right-wing figures, as "implicitly a threat," saying, "The right is trying to create a new lynching culture, with LGBTQ people as the target."

In April 2023, Walsh defended Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill, arguing that LGBTQ rights in Africa were a form of neocolonialism. The bill would enforce life in prison for anybody identifying as gay or bisexual. Walsh argued that opponents to the bill "don't think that Uganda has any particular right to govern itself and have its own culture and its own way of life."{{cite web |last=Owen |first=Greg |date=April 18, 2023 |title=US conservatives are rallying around Uganda's "Kill the Gays" bill |url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/04/us-conservatives-are-rallying-around-ugandas-kill-the-gays-bill/ |website=LGBTQ Nation}}

=Transgender issues=

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Walsh has repeatedly opposed the transgender community and "gender ideology",{{Cite web |last=Barraza |first=Paris |title=Matt Walsh at University of Iowa event says gender ideology is 'rejection of truth' |url=https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/local/2023/04/20/matt-walsh-discusses-anti-trans-views-twitter-hack-at-iowa-event/70126597007/ |access-date=August 10, 2023 |website=Iowa City Press-Citizen |language=}} notably with his children's book Johnny the Walrus, his documentary What Is a Woman?, and campaigns involving hospitals and schools. Walsh and his campaigns are sometimes described as anti-trans and transphobic. Progressive magazine The New Republic named Walsh "Transphobe of the Year" in 2022, saying he "has made a name for himself by demonizing medical professionals and pushing conspiracy theories about 'grooming' and pedophilia in the LGBTQ community".{{Cite magazine|last=Olivier|first=Indigo|date=December 27, 2022|title=Transphobe of the Year: Matt Walsh|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/169609/transphobe-year-matt-walsh|url-access=limited|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221228142730/https://newrepublic.com/article/169609/transphobe-year-matt-walsh|archive-date=December 28, 2022|url-status=live|magazine=The New Republic|access-date=December 29, 2022|language=en-US}} Walsh has referred to being transgender as a "delusion" and a "mental illness". He has also argued that transgender people cannot "defend the logic of trans ideology" and that they have "embarked on a campaign to restructure all of human society". Walsh argues that biological sex is what determines if someone is a man or a woman. He has said that "I truly see the fight against gender ideology as the last stand for Western civilization ... Because if the sane side loses this, it's over."

Walsh has compared giving hormone treatments and gender-affirming surgery for transgender youth to "being sexually violated in a way that is just as depraved or damaging as molestation or rape". In May 2021, Walsh called doctors who perform gender-affirming surgeries for transgender youth "Nazi scientist-evil", "pedophiles", and "plastic surgeons basically acting like Leatherface from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre".{{Cite web |last=January |first=Brianna |date=May 26, 2021 |title=The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh makes extreme attacks on trans kids |url=https://www.losangelesblade.com/2021/05/26/the-daily-wires-matt-walsh-makes-extreme-attacks-on-trans-kids/ |access-date=May 25, 2022 |work=Los Angeles Blade |language=en-US |archive-date=June 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602052859/https://www.losangelesblade.com/2021/05/26/the-daily-wires-matt-walsh-makes-extreme-attacks-on-trans-kids/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Migdon |first=Brooke |date=December 9, 2021 |title=Amazon bestseller compares being trans to pretending to be a walrus |url=https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/585135-amazon-bestseller-compares-being-trans-to |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210093357/https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/585135-amazon-bestseller-compares-being-trans-to |archive-date=December 10, 2021 |access-date=December 21, 2021 |website=The Hill |language=en-US}} Walsh's views are in opposition to the stance of leading American medical groups, which have established guidelines to treat transgender youth; those groups and some research say that denying such care can lead to higher rates of suicide and other mental health issues. He has also referred to these surgeries as "castration".

Walsh rented an apartment in Virginia for one day in 2021 to qualify to speak out against the Loudoun County School Board for allowing transgender students the use of restrooms matching their gender identity.{{Cite web |last=Ramirez |first=Stephanie |date=September 27, 2021 |title=Tennessee blogger, podcaster says he's leasing a Loudoun County home in order to speak at BOE meeting |url=https://www.fox5dc.com/news/tennessee-radio-host-says-hes-leasing-a-loudoun-county-home-in-order-to-speak-at-boe-meeting |access-date=June 28, 2022 |website=FOX 5 DC |language=en-US |archive-date=November 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211116062143/https://www.fox5dc.com/news/tennessee-radio-host-says-hes-leasing-a-loudoun-county-home-in-order-to-speak-at-boe-meeting |url-status=live }} During his speech, which he later featured in his film What Is a Woman?, Walsh said: "You are all child abusers. You prey upon impressionable children and indoctrinate them into your insane ideological cult, a cult which holds many fanatical views but none so deranged as the idea that boys are girls and girls are boys."{{Cite web |last=Eckert |first=AJ |date=July 14, 2022 |title=In What Is a Woman?, Matt Walsh asks a question, but doesn't like the answers |url=https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/in-what-is-a-woman-matt-walsh-asks-a-question/ |access-date=July 17, 2022 |website=Science-Based Medicine |language=en-US}}

In January 2022, Twitter suspended Walsh's account for 12 hours for tweets it deemed as hateful content against transgender people.{{Cite web |last=Bernstein |first=Brittany |date=January 8, 2022 |title=Twitter Suspends the Daily Wire's Matt Walsh over Transgender Tweets |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/news/twitter-suspends-the-daily-wires-matt-walsh-over-transgender-tweets/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220111134356/https://www.nationalreview.com/news/twitter-suspends-the-daily-wires-matt-walsh-over-transgender-tweets/ |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |access-date=March 14, 2022 |website=National Review |language=en-US}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=December 2022}} In October 2022, Walsh encouraged his followers to misgender transgender people, writing that "we have made huge strides against the trans agenda", and that the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, which he called "the liberation of Twitter", will allow them to "ramp up our efforts even more".

In November 2022, Walsh was challenged as a guest on the podcast The Joe Rogan Experience for suggesting that "maybe millions of kids" had been put onto puberty blockers. Producer Jamie Vernon interjected and stated that only 4,780 children had been put on puberty blockers within the past five years. Walsh lowered his guess to "hundreds of thousands" and said he "could be wrong", adding, "who are you gonna trust when they're telling you the numbers?"{{Cite web|last=Browning|first=Bil|date=November 8, 2022|title=Anti-trans pundit Matt Walsh tells a lie so big even Joe Rogan called bullshit|url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/11/anti-trans-pundit-matt-walsh-tells-lie-big-even-joe-rogan-called-bullshit/|website=LGBTQ Nation|access-date=November 15, 2022|language=en}}

==Campaign against Eli Erlick==

In August 2022, Walsh accused transgender activist Eli Erlick of being a "confessed drug dealer" targeting children because of a deleted Instagram post in which she proposed sending surplus hormone therapy prescriptions—including hundreds of doses of testosterone, estradiol, and spironolactone—to transgender youth for free within states attempting to criminalize transgender healthcare for minors. Walsh reported her to the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she was a PhD candidate. When the university did not respond to Walsh's report within a day, he said it was "time to escalate" and shared the contact information of various leaders of the university, while threatening to further escalate to the Board of Trustees, the university's donors, and to organize a protest on campus if the university continued to not respond.{{Cite web |last=Kible |first=Terrance |date=August 18, 2022 |title=Matt Walsh wants grad student arrested for 'distribution network' of hormone drugs |url=https://www.thecollegefix.com/matt-walsh-wants-grad-student-arrested-for-distribution-network-of-hormone-drugs/ |access-date=December 30, 2022 |website=The College Fix |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Falherty |first=Colleen |date=August 19, 2022 |title=UC Santa Cruz grad student targeted for trans activism |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/08/19/uc-santa-cruz-grad-student-targeted-trans-activism |url-access=limited |access-date=December 31, 2022 |website=Inside Higher Ed |language=en}} The university said it "strongly supports transgender members of our community" and "takes allegations of illegal activity seriously, harassment included". Some conservative commentators reported Erlick to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Erlick claimed to never face investigation.{{Cite tweet |user=EliErlick |number=1630322578999869443 |title=Don't you think the DEA would have done something after tens of thousands of reports if they were going to? }}{{Third-party inline|date=March 2023}}

Following Walsh's statements Erlick reported harassment on social media, including messages with anti-LGBT slurs and threats of physical violence. Erlick accused Walsh of "profiting from the moral panic over transness", "attacking free speech itself", and stochastic terrorism, which is incitement of violence against a target through mass media with plausible deniability. Walsh denied that his actions constituted stochastic terrorism and argued that sharing public contact information is not harassment.

==Campaigns against hospitals providing transgender health care==

{{Further|Boston Children's Hospital#Harassment campaign against gender-affirming care|Vanderbilt University Medical Center#Transgender clinic}}

In 2022, Walsh campaigned against hospitals providing transgender health care for youth.{{Cite magazine |last=Gira Grant |first=Melissa |date=September 28, 2022 |title=Doxxed Doctors, Library Bomb Threats, and Attacks on Pride Centers: A Week in Escalating Anti-LGBTQ Violence |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/167882/rising-right-wing-lgbtq-threats-violence-tiktok-tucker-carlson |url-access=limited |magazine=The New Republic |issn=0028-6583 |access-date=October 1, 2022}} Boston Children's Hospital, one of the hospitals denounced by Walsh and other right-wing figures, reported harassment, death threats, and a hoax bomb threat in August 2022 that led to a woman's arrest in September.{{Cite news |last=Edwards |first=Jonathan |date=September 16, 2022 |title=Woman charged with fake bomb threat targeting Boston Children's Hospital |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/16/gender-care-hospital-bomb-threat/ |access-date=November 17, 2022}}

In September 2022, Walsh made accusations against another hospital, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), and its transgender clinic in Nashville, Tennessee.{{Cite web |last=Knox |first=Luke |date=September 22, 2022 |title=Right-Wing Posts Target Trans Health Clinic at Vanderbilt |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/09/22/right-wing-posts-target-trans-health-clinic-vanderbilt |access-date=October 9, 2022 |website=Inside Higher Ed |language=en}} Walsh said on his show that VUMC doctors "castrate" and "drug and mutilate" children.{{Cite web |last1=Quinlan Houghtaling |first1=Ellie |date=September 21, 2022 |title=Vanderbilt Medical Clinic Shuts Down Its Website After Transphobic Attacks |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/vanderbilt-hospital-shuts-down-its-website-after-transphobic-attacks |access-date=September 30, 2022 |website=The Daily Beast |language=en}} He said on Twitter that VUMC considered transgender health care a "money-maker", that it threatened "consequences" for medical staff who declined to provide care, and that it tried to "enforce compliance" from hesitant parents of transgender youth. Walsh criticized VUMC's "trans buddies" program and called its patient advocates "trans activists".{{Cite web |last1=Stockard |first1=Sam |last2=Wadhwani |first2=Anita |title=Republican lawmakers plan to strip Vanderbilt Hospital of child transgender surgeries |url=https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/09/21/republican-lawmakers-plan-to-strip-vanderbilt-hospital-of-child-transgender-surgeries/ |website=Tennessee Lookout|date=September 22, 2022 }} The New Republic described the accusations by Walsh as "cherry-picking informational content" and noted that Walsh had singled out doctors by name. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and other Republicans in the state called for an investigation into the hospital. Walsh tweeted about meeting with Tennessee lawmakers on a bill to shut down the clinic. VUMC reported harassment and threats against its staff, and there were calls for murders and arrests of VUMC doctors in far-right groups on Reddit and 4chan. Vanderbilt took down its webpage about the clinic and said that Walsh had "misrepresent[ed] facts about the care" it provides. On October 7, 2022, VUMC announced that it would pause gender-affirming surgeries for minors and review its practices.{{Cite web |last=Kruesi |first=Kimberlee |date=October 7, 2022 |title=VUMC to pause, review gender-affirming surgeries for minors |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-nashville-legislature-republican-b2198211.html |access-date=October 8, 2022 |website=The Independent |language=en}} Since 2018, VUMC provided an average of five such surgeries to minors annually. All patients were over 16-years-old and obtained parental consent. None have received genital surgery.

Walsh spoke at a Nashville rally organized by The Daily Wire called "The Rally to End Child Mutilation" on October 21, 2022, in opposition to transgender health care for minors. The rally, whose headline speakers included Tennessee Republican state senator Jack Johnson and representative William Lamberth, senator Marsha Blackburn, and former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, drew between 1,500 and 3,000 people, including supporters and protesters.{{Cite web |date=October 21, 2022 |title=GOP legislative leaders say they'll introduce ban to end transgender health care for minors in Tennessee |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2022/10/21/nashville-protest-rally-gender-affirming-care-minors-tennessee-capitol/69579695007/ |access-date=October 22, 2022 |website=The Tennessean |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=West |first=Emily R. |date=October 21, 2022 |title=Thousands rally near State Capitol to end medical care for transgender kids |url=https://www.newschannel5.com/news/gender-affirming-rallies-happening-in-downtown-nashville |access-date=October 22, 2022 |website=News Channel 5 Nashville (WTVF) |language=en}}

Walsh spoke at a Do No Harm rally outside the United States Supreme Court as oral arguments were presented in the United States v. Skrmetti case regarding child medical gender care on

December 4, 2024.

=Politicians=

After South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem permitted businesses to require a COVID-19 vaccine for their employees, Walsh criticized her by writing that she was only considered a frontrunner for the 2024 United States presidential election because of her physical attractiveness.{{Cite web |first=Oliver |last=Darcy |date=August 26, 2021 |title=Kristi Noem slams right-wing media personality Matt Walsh for 'horrible misogyny' |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/26/media/kristi-noem-matt-walsh/index.html |website=CNN |access-date=November 15, 2021 |archive-date=November 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115044318/https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/26/media/kristi-noem-matt-walsh/index.html |url-status=live }} After Noem called his comment misogynistic, Walsh said he had no regrets but would "accept apologies from all of the performative idiots pretending to be offended by it".{{Cite web |first=Anders |last=Anglesey |date=August 26, 2021 |title=Gov. Kristi Noem slams podcaster Matt Walsh for "horrible misogyny": "Eyes up here" |url=https://www.newsweek.com/gov-kristi-noem-slams-podcaster-matt-walsh-horrible-misogyny-eyes-here-1623194 |access-date=November 15, 2021 |website=Newsweek |language=en |archive-date=November 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115044248/https://www.newsweek.com/gov-kristi-noem-slams-podcaster-matt-walsh-horrible-misogyny-eyes-here-1623194 |url-status=live }}{{better source needed|date=August 2023}}

When U.S. representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted photos of her grandmother's house in Puerto Rico that was unrepaired in 2021, four years after Hurricane Maria, and blamed former President Donald Trump for not doing enough to help the recovery, Walsh criticized Ocasio-Cortez for not providing the money herself. He launched a crowdfunding effort to pay for the repairs and raised $100,000 in the first 24 hours, reaching the set goal of $48,990, but the grandmother refused the funds and GoFundMe shut the effort down after raising $104,000, with all of the money being returned to the donors. Ocasio-Cortez responded to the criticism by saying, "My abuela (Spanish: "grandmother") is okay ... but instead of only caring for mine & letting others suffer, I'm calling attention to the systemic injustices you seem totally fine [with] in having a US colony."{{Cite web |last=Dzhanova |first=Yelena |date=June 5, 2021 |title=A right-wing writer who crowdfunded $100,000 to repair the Puerto Rico home of AOC's grandmother says she declined to accept the money |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/right-wing-writer-raises-100000-for-aoc-grandma-virtue-signaling-2021-6 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US |access-date=November 16, 2021 |archive-date=July 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707010710/https://www.businessinsider.com/right-wing-writer-raises-100000-for-aoc-grandma-virtue-signaling-2021-6 |url-status=live}}

Walsh criticized Donald Trump in November 2022 for nicknaming Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis "Ron DeSanctimonious" ahead of the November 2022 midterm elections.{{Cite web|last=Petrizzo|first=Zachary|date=November 5, 2022|title=Right-Wingers Turn On Trump for Mocking DeSantis|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-takes-jab-at-ron-desantis-at-oz-rally-in-pennsylvania?ref=scroll|website=The Daily Beast|access-date=December 2, 2022|language=en}}

Personal life

Walsh is of Irish descent.{{cite web |last1=@Matt Walsh |title=Matt Walsh Eats A VEGAN Christmas Meal |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgFda_tbCyY |publisher=YouTube |access-date=8 November 2024 |date=December 25, 2023|at=at 2:05}} He is Catholic, and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.{{cite web|last=Pfleger|first=Paige|date=October 12, 2021|title=Far-right friendly social media website Parler will move its headquarters to Nashville|url=https://wpln.org/post/far-right-friendly-social-media-website-parler-will-move-its-headquarters-to-nashville/ |access-date=November 19, 2021|website=WPLN News – Nashville Public Radio|language=en-US |archive-date=October 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211013025210/https://wpln.org/post/far-right-friendly-social-media-website-parler-will-move-its-headquarters-to-nashville/ |url-status=live}} He is married to Alissa Ann Walsh ({{nee|Linnemann}}),{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Alissa |title=About |url=https://diymomoftwins.wordpress.com/about/ |website=DIY Mom of Twins |date=February 4, 2014 |access-date=November 4, 2022}} whom he met on eHarmony.{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Matt |title=I Wasn't Ready For Marriage |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/i-wasnt-ready-for-marriage_b_4760919 |website= HuffPost |access-date=February 22, 2023 |date=February 10, 2014}} They have six children, including two sets of twins.{{cite tweet |last= Walsh |first=Matt|user=MattWalshBlog|date=August 3, 2022|number=1554519480495230977|title=My wife and I continue to do our part to reverse the population decline. We just recently found out that we're having twins. Again. Second set. Our kingdom expands by leaps and bounds.}}{{Cite tweet |user= MattWalshBlog |number=1614327389596651520 |title=Kids number 5 and 6 were born last night.}} Walsh is a fan of the Baltimore Ravens.{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Matt |title=Matt Walsh Almost Cries After Ravens Loss |url=https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2220726964808319 |publisher=The Daily Wire |access-date=May 29, 2025}}

Books

The Unholy Trinity: Blocking the Left's Assault on Life, Marriage, and Gender. New York: Crown Publishing Group (2017). {{ISBN |978-0-45149505-1|0-45149505-5}}.
Church of Cowards: A Wake-Up Call to Complacent Christians. Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway (2020). {{ISBN|978-1-62157920-5}}. {{OCLC |1141857412}}.
Johnny the Walrus. Illustrations by K. Reece. Nashville, TN: DW Books (2022). {{ISBN |978-1-95600705-3|1-95600704-0}}.
What Is a Woman?: One Man's Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation. Nashville, TN: DW Books (2022). {{ISBN |978-1-95600700-8}}. {{OCLC|1322213918}}.

Filmography

Year	Title	Type	Role	\|Notes
class="wikitable sortable"
2022 \| What Is a Woman? \| Documentary \| Himself \|
2023 \| Lady Ballers \| Film \| Kris Dilby/Himself \|
2024 \| Am I Racist? \| Documentary \| Himself \|