00:00:00.000Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the Biden administration tried and failed to throw a father of seven in prison for 11 years for the crime of being a pro-life activist.
00:00:07.120The ruling regime is vengeful and petty and will do everything in its power to destroy anyone who fails to submit.
00:00:13.220Also, more states across the country are moving to ban the mutilation and castration of children.
00:00:17.720We'll discuss how the anti-gender ideology movement managed to have so much success in such a short amount of time.
00:00:23.700And the Surgeon General warns about the dangers of social media for children.
00:00:27.160He's right about that, but his concern for the safety of children seems to be rather selective.
00:00:31.100Plus, I scandalized a feminist during a panel segment on Piers Morgan's show when I suggested that women should maybe wear clothing when they go out in public.
00:00:38.800We'll talk about that provocative opinion and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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00:01:38.840Despite appearances, he was not actually some sort of terrorist or drug trafficker or child predator.
00:01:44.380We could already assume that he was none of those things because if he was, he never would have attracted the FBI's interest in the first place.
00:01:50.160Instead, he was, along with being a law-abiding father of seven, a pro-life activist.
00:01:56.020Houck stood accused of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE Act.
00:02:01.820And supposedly, he had done something to prevent people from accessing an abortion clinic, which is a violation of federal law now.
00:02:08.280Although, strangely enough, the incident in question had occurred a year prior in 2021.
00:02:12.760And the local DA in Philadelphia, who's hardly a right-wing zealot, had already looked at the case and decided that no charges were warranted.
00:02:20.600A year after that, the Biden administration gave it another look and decided that not only had a crime occurred,
00:02:27.520but that the alleged criminal was so dangerous and so sinister that he deserved to be frog-marched outside of his home at the break of dawn,
00:02:34.960and if they could prove their case in a court of law, thrown in federal prison for 11 years.
00:02:39.940But as it happens, they could not prove their case in federal court.
00:02:43.980On Monday, at the conclusion of a week-long trial, Houck was acquitted by a jury that was not convinced
00:02:49.720that he was the dastardly militant that Biden's goons tried to make him out to be.
00:02:54.260Judge Gerald Papert seemed to echo the jury's concerns when he asked, during the trial, he asked the prosecutor in the case
00:03:01.600whether the law that Houck was being tried under was, perhaps, he said, being, quote, stretched a little thin.
00:12:56.200I didn't film the show because at the time when we would film it, I had been sitting in the hospital with our two-week-old baby for, at that point, about 10 hours or so.
00:13:04.600At like midnight on Monday night, I took one of the twins to the emergency room because he was having kind of a labored breathing and erratic breathing.
00:13:12.220And he'd also stopped eating, which is very, very bad signs for an infant on both counts.
00:13:17.320There's a cold basically has been going through our house, really mild for the rest of us.
00:13:21.080But for undersized preemie newborns, a cold can be, you know, potentially quite catastrophic.
00:13:27.440So he made the decision that I would take him.
00:13:55.500But everything, thank God, everyone is fine.
00:13:57.680And actually, the baby's doing better than I am at this point because after I pulled an all-nighter, it's like that's the kind of thing.
00:14:04.940As a younger man, I can remember being younger and there were times when I would stay up all night, never for a selfless reason, like taking care of a baby.
00:14:12.500But then the next day, you know, you're okay.
00:14:46.520And by the way, those ice storms, two of them, there were supposed to be, there was supposed to be one on Monday night when we took the baby to the hospital.
00:14:53.820And then last night, there was supposed to be another one.
00:14:55.460And both of them ended up being total duds.
00:14:57.420I mean, a little bit of freezing rain, but nothing to the level that the forecast predicted.
00:15:01.720And yet, of course, everything is shut down here in Nashville anyway.
00:15:05.200Small amount of freezing rain, some slippery sidewalks, everything shuts down.
00:15:09.120If you want to know how society would fare in an actual catastrophe, like a nuclear strike or a, you know, asteroid impact, all you got to do is go to a warmer weather climate and see how they respond to a little bit of winter weather.
00:15:34.260Let's begin with this good news from the Hill.
00:15:37.860Utah has become the first state in 2023 to ban gender affirming care for minors.
00:15:42.060As Governor Spencer Cox signed a bill Saturday to restrict their access to puberty blockers, hormones, and surgical procedures.
00:15:49.480Cox said in a statement announcing his signature that legislation that affects minors necessitates careful consideration and deliberation.
00:15:55.980He said the bill is not perfect, but is a more nuanced and thoughtful approach to a terribly divisive issue.
00:16:00.540Cox said states and countries are pausing gender affirming care for new patients until additional and improved research can be conducted to determine the long-term consequences of receiving this type of care.
00:16:12.980Lawmakers in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, and Tennessee have all approved measures restricting, quote, gender affirming care in recent years.
00:16:22.280And this is, this is, in fact, happening all across the country.
00:16:24.720Florida had previously passed a measure to ban these procedures.
00:16:29.720And here is Ron DeSantis a couple days ago explaining that measure a little bit more.
00:16:36.380I mean, look, you have, and this is sad, but this is going on, you're having, in our society, they're giving teenagers, kids, puberty blockers.
00:16:47.560They're changing, they're doing sex change operations.
00:16:50.260And so we actually have very, you know, young adults who went through this when they were minors, and they're saying this was a huge mistake.
00:16:56.960And, in fact, it's not evidence-based when you start talking about sex changes and puberty blockers.
00:17:01.820So we've worked through our department or our medical licensing board to say that you in the state of Florida, if you're performing those procedures on these minors, you're going to lose your medical license here in Florida.
00:17:46.760In a radical gender theory, Trump blasted the Biden administration's cruel policies on so-called gender-affirming care and vowed to stop federal agencies from promoting such policies.
00:17:57.120He said, quote, left-wing gender insanity being pushed on our children is an act of child abuse.
00:18:02.920Well, he said this while launching his third bid for the nation's highest office last November and is so far the only major Republican to have declared his candidacy of 2024.
00:18:10.860The announcement comes as radical gender ideology has become a hot-button issue with The Daily Wire at the forefront of the conversation.
00:18:55.520Questioned whether Vanderbilt University Medical Center should provide gender-affirming care to patients.
00:19:00.440Matt Walsh, a Daily Wire conservative commentator who questions the legitimacy of LGBTQ rights,
00:19:06.220said he considered the care to be that of castration and mutilation of minors and adults.
00:19:10.380That's the way that, that's the tortured phrasing they're forced to use in defense of what they call gender, quote-unquote, gender-affirming care.
00:19:37.340It's not that I consider this, quote, care to be castration and mutilation.
00:19:41.860It's that, by definition, that is what these procedures do.
00:19:50.240That's, that is a, a, a definitional thing.
00:19:53.840A standing room crowd inside the committee room in the Cordell Hall building reached capacity before News Channel 5 could even get our camera inside.
00:20:00.560Republicans invited Chloe Cole to testify she's an 18-year-old from California who, at age 13, began gender-affirming care,
00:20:05.460only to decide that she didn't want to continue down that path.
00:20:08.100She spoke about why lawmakers should pass House Bill 1.
00:20:12.040And so this bill is making its way through the process of becoming law, and I have absolutely no doubt that it, that it will, will be law in short order.
00:20:23.180So, we got all these things going on, you know, states across the country banning the mutilation of kids, Ron DeSantis coming out strongly against it, Donald Trump coming out strongly against it.
00:20:36.400And, and you have to keep in mind that just a few years ago, there was no political will or momentum to ban this butchery at all.
00:20:44.700I mean, nobody was even talking about it.
00:20:47.440There was, we, we had a Republican White House and Congress for two years, and they never made any attempt to do anything about any of this.
00:20:56.320They never, they never talked about it.
00:20:58.220And now, and now it has become an issue, and it's one that conservatives are, for the most part, united on.
00:21:08.360And this is something that we, and I say, when I say we, I mean the, the anti-gender ideology movement.
00:21:15.720This is something that we made happen.
00:21:17.540This is a, it's a major success story for conservatives in the anti-gender ideology movement.
00:21:22.440Now, most importantly, it's a success story, success, success story for the kids who are now going to be protected from this mutilation.
00:21:31.140But it's also worth noting that, you know, I'm not sure there is any other example that I can think of.
00:21:38.440Where conservatives mobilized and so quickly converted that mobilization into not only cultural change, but policy changes as well.
00:21:47.820Where this went from something that wasn't even discussed a few years ago, to now states across the country banning it, presidential candidates coming out against it.
00:22:00.640I mean, it's worth paying attention to what we did here and how we did it.
00:22:05.780Because this, this should be the model moving forward on every issue.
00:22:09.120And on top of that too, I think, I think that's the success goes farther than that because we've also made it not only popular and common now for people to come out against castrating and mutilating kids.
00:22:24.760We've also made it popular and common to question the fundamental claims of transgenderism, quote unquote, as a concept.
00:22:31.680Now, it's still not popular on the left, obviously, but I think normal people are waking up and feeling bold enough to speak out.
00:22:40.140You know, as I've said plenty of times when we were shooting What is a Woman?
00:22:44.080And we did our man on the street interviews all across the country in many different states and talked to lots of different people.
00:22:51.900What we found, and we were filming this, you know, started filming a year and a half ago or so.
00:22:56.320So it was very, very difficult to find anyone who was willing to be skeptical about transgenderism, about any, any part of it, who was skeptical or was at least was willing to express that skepticism on a cam, on camera.
00:23:17.140Now, I'm thinking that if we did it again, it'd be a very different story.
00:23:19.980Anyway, I think we'd have no difficulty finding people that would stand in front of the camera and say, no, man's a man, a woman's a woman.
00:23:41.860So, I think this is a very important lesson that we should learn here.
00:23:47.120From the Daily Wire, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, that is, believes children 13 years old are too young to join social media platforms, citing kids are still developing their identity, quote unquote, and such engagement can create a distorted sense of themselves.
00:24:04.520Murthy, who has served as Surgeon General under the Obama and the Biden administrations, signaled the warning in an interview with CNN, noting adolescents should only be allowed to access the platforms until they are 16 years old at the earliest.
00:24:17.120Murthy said, it's a time, early adolescence, where kids are developing their identity, their sense of self.
00:24:22.540It's a time where it's really important for us to be thoughtful about what's going into how they think about their own self-worth and their relationships.
00:24:29.020And the skewed and often distorted environment of social media often does a disservice to many of those children.
00:24:33.740Now, this is obviously correct on every point.
00:24:41.880I mean, the idea that children at 13 or younger would be old enough to engage with the entire world on a platform, because that's what social media is.
00:24:53.120You are saying to a child, well, here you go, engage with the whole world all at once.
00:25:02.160The idea that they're old enough for that at 13 or younger or even older, it's madness.
00:25:11.480Why aren't children old enough for that?
00:25:13.180Not only old enough, by the way, to engage with the whole world, but also to see and be exposed to and consume whatever content anyone in the world wants to post to that same platform.
00:25:26.680I mean, when you put your kid on social media, what you're saying is, okay, child, you are old enough to see anything that anyone happens to want to post.
00:27:02.120You know, kids have to learn how to take risks in a thoughtful and controlled environment.
00:27:09.180As parents, we have to be willing to take risks.
00:27:13.740You know, we have to be willing to, in some circumstances, do things where there's a possibility that things go wrong.
00:27:19.220Anytime you let your kid run around outside and play in the yard, I mean, they could trip and fall and break an ankle.
00:27:26.400And there are things that could go wrong.
00:27:27.940But you allow that in a controlled environment because the benefits are, well, they get fresh air, they get exercise, they get to, you know, have a normal, joyful childhood.
00:27:38.180And the only other option is that you keep them locked inside their whole childhood, and we can't allow that.
00:27:43.220But what are the benefits of being on social media when you're 16?
00:27:54.220So, you know, we can agree on most of that, apparently, and I'm glad that we do.
00:27:58.760But then I can't help but point out, as many others have already pointed out, that the Surgeon General and the Biden administration generally,
00:28:06.020they say that kids of 13 are too young for social media.
00:28:08.580Yet they also say that these are the same kids who are old enough to change their gender.
00:28:15.380Think about the reasoning that he gave.
00:28:18.740He didn't just point out that their minds are developing.
00:28:20.940He said that their identities are still developing.
00:28:24.540You know, their sense of themselves is still developing.
00:28:33.220And yet these are kids that can change their gender at 13.
00:28:38.580Okay, so a 12-year-old, we all agree, doesn't have the mental capacity, doesn't have the psychological and emotional maturity,
00:28:49.560doesn't have the powers of discernment necessary to use TikTok.
00:28:53.880And yet that same child does have all those things in ample quantity if he declares that, you know, that although he was born a boy, he's actually a girl.
00:29:13.920All right, this is a video that's gone viral today.
00:29:19.340Matt Gaetz proposed that members of the House Judiciary Committee should say the Pledge of Allegiance before every Judiciary Committee meeting.
00:29:29.200And he actually proposed this back in 2021, but they didn't have the change.
00:29:32.120They didn't have the power then to actually institute this change.
00:32:32.980It's not because the Republicans in the Judiciary Committee are so patriotic and they love the country so much that they just can't contain themselves.
00:32:40.360They want to say the pledge every five minutes they love the country so much.
00:32:46.440It's like, obviously, that's the only reason.
00:32:48.960Just showing off of the cameras and also putting Democrats in a position where they would say no so you can then go, Democrats aren't patriotic.
00:32:54.420Like, you know, and by the way, like, political gamesmanship like that, where you're trying to paint your opposition as the bad guy, I'm fine with that.
00:33:41.480So CNN says, former President Donald Trump took aim at Ron DeSantis Saturday, claiming the Florida governor and his team are trying to rewrite history regarding their COVID-19 pandemic response and called a potential presidential run by his GOP rival very disloyal.
00:33:57.340Trump told reporters while aboard his plane, there are Republican governors that did not close their states.
00:34:29.340He sent this out on his Truth Social app a few days ago.
00:34:32.060He said, the fake news media was good yesterday in their coverage of my stops in New Hampshire and South Carolina, other than the Globalist Street Journal, which is rarely accurate or good.
00:34:49.140I don't think that there was anyone in the news media who described a Trump rally as really amazing.
00:34:53.800I somehow doubt that, but I don't know.
00:34:56.380The enthusiasm to make America great again has never been stronger.
00:34:58.820The revelations about Ron DeSantis doing far worse than many other Republican governors, including that he unapologetically shut down Florida and its beaches, was interesting indeed.
00:35:14.480So Trump has been going after DeSantis for months now.
00:35:18.180DeSantis has not said anything directly in response, which I think is the right approach.
00:35:24.240Now, I have heard, which I think is an interesting argument, that the right thing here politically is for Donald Trump to be going after DeSantis because he realizes he's the number one challenger.
00:35:47.600It's smart for DeSantis not to respond.
00:35:51.200But because I agree, I must disagree with the first point.
00:35:55.880Like what makes DeSantis smart for not responding is that Trump comes off as weak and kind of desperate and pathetic for obsessing over a guy that's not even talking about him.
00:36:07.040So I don't see how it's politically smart for Trump to continue down this line of attack.
00:37:18.540He handed the country over to Dr. Fauci.
00:37:21.860He could have fired him, but he didn't.
00:37:23.300And in explaining why he didn't fire him, Trump has said that the reason he didn't fire Fauci is that the media would have been really mad at him if he did it.
00:37:34.500That he couldn't have fired Fauci because the media would have complained.
00:37:36.920So instead, you would hand our entire country over to this narcissistic psycho?
00:37:48.760So taking the guy who was very pro-lockdown and trying to make him into the lockdown guy while you were the lockdown president, yeah, I don't know about that.
00:38:01.880I don't, I don't, I don't, it's obviously not true, but of course we know in politics, truth is sometimes irrelevant.
00:38:09.040The question is whether that, whether this narrative will resonate with anyone.
00:38:12.420Can he convince anyone to actually buy into this?
00:38:48.160I'm, uh, very skeptical of this approach.
00:38:51.580All right, finally, I, uh, on Monday afternoon, I appeared on Piers Morgan's show and we talked about, as we've discussed in the show here, the viral trend of women trying to entrap men at the gym by filming them and pretending that the men were harassing them.
00:39:07.640And I made one point that scandalized one of the feminists on the panel.
00:39:15.040I don't think you could avoid looking at people because I'm looking at them to see what their forms like, how they're carrying certain weights, are they carrying more than me?
00:39:22.800You know, male or female, I don't really care.
00:39:24.280I'm just, I'm quite curious about other people using a gym.
00:39:27.740Am I now going to be something appearing on Instagram that influences sites as some sort of perv?
00:39:35.640And look, by the way, I also, I don't mean to be a victim blamer here, but, but can we also say that if you're a woman and you don't want to, you don't want men to notice you in the gym, maybe wear more than your underwear to go work out?
00:40:24.480We get the Margaret Atwood quote there.
00:40:26.340Um, and, and, and, and actually just so you know, uh, men, the, the big fear that men have when it comes to women, especially women who try to do exactly what these women in the gym are doing.
00:41:06.380An accusation from a man in our society doesn't carry a lot of weight, but we know we've heard the, the slogans, believe all women, believe women.
00:41:16.220And we also know that the people that say that, you know, there, there are plenty of women that they don't want to believe, such as the woman that accused, uh, Joe Biden of sexual assault.
00:41:51.400If, if, if, uh, we're talking about someone who is a woman who is the victim, she's the victim of a man looking at her.
00:41:58.120If that's the kind of victimization we're talking about, a man looking at you, if that makes you a victim, if that makes you a victim, then yes, I blame you.
00:42:07.420If you're walking outside of your house in your underwear.
00:42:10.420Uh, yes, that you, you have made yourself the victim by doing everything in your power to attract the male gaze, not just the male gaze, but anyone's gaze.
00:42:20.480Because as I said, when we talked about this last week, if I walked out of the house in my underwear, if any man walked out of the house in my underwear, people would stare at us.
00:42:28.820They might not stare, uh, in a, in a sort of pleased way, but they would still be staring.
00:42:35.940Whether they're horrified and grossed out or whatever, whatever the reason for the sake, they'd be staring because they'd be thinking, why?
00:42:41.280Look at that person in their underwear.
00:42:42.960Let's just say that's a normal human response when you walk around in your underwear.
00:42:46.580And if that makes you a victim, to be the object of someone's gaze, okay, if that's the kind of victimization we're talking about, then yes, you deserve the blame for it.
00:42:56.660You deserve actually 100% of the blame for it if you're walking around in your underwear.
00:43:02.340Um, if you're dressed in a way that is, that is designed to attract people's gaze, and then you get exactly what you're, what you were hoping for, yes, the blame goes to you.
00:43:20.520And there's a pretty easy solution here, which is to put on clothes.
00:43:24.120And also, it does make me question, you know, I know we hear from the feminists, women walk around all the time terrified that a man's going to kill them.
00:45:11.620Ka Ra says, Matt, it's unfair to say that that man skates so bad that he makes you look like a professional skater because you skate like a graceful swan.