The Matt Walsh Show - July 05, 2023


Matt Walsh Responds To His TikTok Critics - Part One


Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

176.00336

Word count

1,396

Sentence count

108

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged

Hate speech

5

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Summary

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Matt Walsh is a fascist who is promoting violence against trans people. The idea that being trans is the result of some kind of social contagion has been disproven so many times. The theory of rapid-onset gender dysphoria comes from a survey of 256 parents of trans children, and not from the trans children themselves.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 In the interest of efficiency, we'll be responding rapid-fire style to TikTok videos attacking me just over the past two weeks or so.
00:00:07.460 I say this will be rapid-fire, but take that with a grain of salt. I'm not Ben Shapiro, so rapid-fire is relative.
00:00:13.000 Eventually, we actually hit chipmunk speed, and then we go silent, and we go back in time.
00:00:16.720 Anyway, let's go through these.
00:00:18.660 Matt Walsh is a fascist who is promoting violence against trans people. His language is inflammatory and factually incorrect.
00:00:25.640 That is such bullshit.
00:00:28.840 The idea that being trans is the result of some kind of social contagion has been disproven so many times.
00:00:34.780 The theory of rapid-onset gender dysphoria comes from a survey of 256 parents of trans children, and not from the trans children themselves.
00:00:43.080 The article has been removed and criticized for bad methodology.
00:00:46.040 After being peer-reviewed, it was found that rapid-onset gender dysphoria isn't even a formal medical diagnosis.
00:00:51.300 It was found that between 2017 and 2019, the rates of teenagers identifying as trans didn't even increase.
00:00:56.800 Theory of rapid-onset gender dysphoria argues that trans children identify as trans because they're trying to escape social stigma or to become more popular with their peer group.
00:01:04.600 This makes no sense because rates of bullying and suicidality amongst trans youth is consistently higher when compared to their cis peers.
00:01:11.140 The idea that the existence of trans influencers like Dylan Mulvaney are somehow transing your kids is completely unfounded.
00:01:16.900 None of Dylan's content that I have ever seen argues that you should be trans or is trying to promote transness onto children at all.
00:01:23.700 Well, where to begin?
00:01:24.400 You say that the survey about rapid-onset gender dysphoria was invalid because they interviewed parents rather than the children themselves.
00:01:33.220 Well, yes, if a child is sucked into a social contagion, he's not going to report that he's been sucked into a social contagion.
00:01:41.520 Are you actually trying to prove that children aren't being indoctrinated by arguing that the indoctrinated children say they haven't been indoctrinated?
00:01:48.620 Yes, I mean, if you go to your local Scientology Center and you ask anyone there whether they've been brainwashed, they're all going to say no.
00:01:55.140 You're stepping over a line now.
00:01:56.360 You're stepping over a line.
00:01:57.160 You know you are.
00:01:57.860 If you don't like the term rapid-onset gender dysphoria, you can call it whatever you want.
00:02:01.420 If you prefer something less clinical-sounding, then just call it, wow, look at all of these kids calling themselves trans all of a sudden syndrome. 0.64
00:02:10.040 The point is that according to data compiled by the Williams Institute, only half a percent of all adults in this country identify as trans, while the number for kids between the ages of 13 and 17 is 1.4%.
00:02:20.560 That's nearly three times higher.
00:02:22.740 And the numbers are even more striking when you break them down by generation.
00:02:25.420 There was a Gallup poll that found that there are twice as many trans identifiers in Gen Z as there are among millennials.
00:02:31.980 And there are many more among millennials than among baby boomers.
00:02:34.560 For baby boomers, it's 0.2% identify as trans.
00:02:38.620 For Gen Z, it's nearly 2%.
00:02:41.360 0.2% versus 2%.
00:02:44.260 That is a 10x increase.
00:02:47.660 You think this happened by accident?
00:02:48.980 Or perhaps you would say that there have always been this many trans people in the world, but they weren't free to live their truth or whatever. 0.91
00:02:54.780 Well, the trouble with that theory is that there's absolutely not even one single shred of evidence to support the dramatic claim that there have always been millions upon millions of closeted trans people through history.
00:03:07.460 Now, you can either believe what the data tells you, what all of it tells you, all of it, or you can invent a story, entirely unsupported, completely built on your imagination, about millions and millions and millions of theoretical trans people in older generations who don't show up in the data.
00:03:26.520 This is what you're reduced to.
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00:04:19.080 You cannot be something and also the negation of that thing at the same time.
00:04:23.940 Matt Walsh is just going to be upset with people using micro labels.
00:04:27.320 What the f*** is this?
00:04:28.320 See, he wants to have it both ways, where he hates the oversaturation of language with micro labels, yet when something is not 100% consistent and precise enough, he gets mad at that too.
00:04:40.080 Heart sniffing mumbo jumbo.
00:04:41.680 Now he's taking issue with micro labeling.
00:04:44.260 Despite earlier complaining that macro labeling is not specific enough, you can't have it both ways.
00:04:50.520 You have to use umbrella terms which are not going to be exactly precise.
00:04:53.980 Yet as long as we understand that if somebody says bisexual and asexual, they're probably referring to romantic attraction to both genders.
00:05:02.620 Well, thank you for reminding me about my fart sniffing mumbo jumbo line.
00:05:05.280 I'm quite proud of that.
00:05:06.540 Now, my issue is not with the act of labeling.
00:05:09.400 There is some amount of labeling that's necessary and normal.
00:05:11.920 Human beings label things so that they can communicate coherently with each other about those things.
00:05:15.720 But coherence is the point here.
00:05:18.100 When the labels create incoherence, then they defeat the purpose of the entire exercise.
00:05:24.020 That sign can't stop me because I can read.
00:05:27.720 If the label doesn't clarify but rather creates more confusion, then it's not even a label.
00:05:33.120 It's more of an anti-label.
00:05:34.500 It's an attempt to make it harder for people to understand what something is, not easier.
00:05:38.920 However, calling yourself a bisexual asexual is exactly like calling yourself a meat-eating vegan. 0.74
00:05:46.500 It tastes just like KFC.
00:05:48.620 I know, right?
00:05:49.420 Now, you say that perhaps asexuals experience a little sexual attraction to both sexes,
00:05:54.300 and that somehow justifies calling a bisexual asexual.
00:05:57.780 But that's like saying that a meat-eating vegan is a vegan who eats only a little bit of meat.
00:06:03.620 It's just a hamburger.
00:06:04.760 Not all the time.
00:06:05.540 You're disgusting.
00:06:06.160 Well, by definition, if you eat a little bit of meat, then you eat meat, which means you aren't a vegan.
00:06:10.660 You may be a less enthusiastic meat-eater or a reluctant meat-eater or an occasional meat-eater.
00:06:15.820 Maybe there's some other adjective you can affix there.
00:06:18.860 But a vegan is someone who doesn't eat meat, period.
00:06:23.160 An asexual experiences no sexual attraction.
00:06:26.540 If you experience sexual attraction, you're not asexual.
00:06:29.080 That's just like your opinion, man.
00:06:32.340 See, this is the other problem with your compulsive and incoherent labeling.
00:06:36.160 You don't allow for variations within the labels.
00:06:39.800 You pretend that you do.
00:06:41.080 You pretend that you're all about variation.
00:06:42.760 You embrace all kinds of variety, you claim.
00:06:45.220 But you don't.
00:06:46.260 Because the moment you notice a variation within a category, you create a whole new category for that variation.
00:06:54.260 And you do this kind of thing everywhere, in every context.
00:06:58.200 The most obvious example, of course, is how you've eliminated masculine women from existence. 0.71
00:07:02.800 Tomboy, we used to call them.
00:07:04.200 You've erased that variation by labeling them trans men.
00:07:07.280 This is the worst part about the way that you label.
00:07:11.640 It's not just that it's incoherent.
00:07:13.760 It's also that it's so damned limiting.
00:07:17.060 Austin, why on earth did you hit that woman?
00:07:20.120 Right, let me show you, baby.
00:07:22.780 That ain't no woman. 1.00
00:07:24.140 It's a man, man.
00:07:25.920 You said it.