How Matt Walsh Vilifies Trans People (To Grift his Audience)

The Daily Wire host Matt Walsh has been consistently attacking the trans community, including with a new upcoming propaganda documentary, that has me incredibly angry... so let's talk about it.
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0:00 - Intro
6:09 - Why Matt Walsh "Triggers" Me
11:03 - The Troll
16:10 - The Viral
20:48 - The Book
30:48 - The Grift
33:01 - The Stakes
39:22 - Final Thoughts

[@JoseBird]

I came for some info on Matt Walsh's transphobia, and then ran into a shout out for my own stuff. Thank you so much for the kind words!

[@iPsychlops]

Also subbed to you and added some of your videos to my WLP. Looking forward to them!

[@mikaylaeager7942]

I’m watching your Golden Girls video now! Thanks to Jessie’s rec.

[@ChuckMeIntoHell]

I love both of you, and I'm so glad to see KZbinrs who I admire supporting each other. Your Golden Girls video gave me the feels.

[@saraa.4295]

So fun seeing one of my favourite creators comment on another of my favorite creators! You made me binge watch the golden girls...

[@DamonBrazzellUkesploitation]

To anybody reading, José is amazing. I recommend his Roseanne/The Connors videos and his Married with Children one.

[@GM_MorganV]

Conservatives claim to be job creators, but not one has hired a writer to come up with a new joke. Curious.

[@JessieGender1]

Best comment

[@GM_MorganV]

@@JessieGender1 aww thanks!!

[@goldfish8729]

Thus deserves more likes

[@kazikek2674]

You, dear sir, lady, or NB pal, have won one internet. ⭐

[@kommisar.]

Ah, that must be why we have all the "funny" leftists like Samantha Bea, Hannah Gadsby, John Oliver, etc.

[@mackthompson616]

Also, notice how Matt referred to himself as a “Virginian born in a Tennessean’s body”? Matt wasn’t born Tennessean. Tennessee is (at least) his fourth state of residence. Hmmmmmmmmm… it’s almost like social identities are malleable and just because you were sorted into one category as an actual infant doesn’t mean that that will (or should) always define you………🤔🤔🤔

[@mackthompson616]

@@dlg78 um no my point is that no one is contesting Matt’s identity as a Tennessean because sure, cis-tennesseans and trans-tennesseans will have some different experiences and needs because of where they were born and how they grew up. But everyone knows that since Matt lives full-time in Tennessee under Tennessean jurisdiction and has embodied so much of the Tennessee experience, it’s be inaccurate to insist he is a Chicagoan Social categories are socially constructed. We made up state lines and recognize that where you live can be fluid and experiences vary within a state. So why, when we made up divides of gender identity and experiences, can we not recognize that trans people have substantial needs, experiences, and embodied experiences far beyond that of their assigned gender at birth?

[@ddjsoyenby]

yes matt you proved our point without even knowing it....

[@CharlotteSWeb-oh7ou]

@@dlg78 You think trans is a noun, that transness is mutually exclusive with being nonbinary, and that "biological man" is a scientific phrase. No wonder your attempt at being clever is a muddled debunking of an incoherent strawman.

[@technicolorbarf6734]

@@dlg78 lol u don't know what a phrase means

[@davriecaro3036]

@@herculesballz1905 Sorry, but may I ask who you are referring to. Just to clarify, since it may not be clear to people who you are talking about

[@sodapop8900]

As a non binary person I take great pride in Matt Walsh not being able to understand my enigmatic presence

[@jasperthefish]

our mere presence terrifies him

[@notNajimi]

We live in the heads of queerphobes rent free and I revel in it

[@Kleheup.]

What were having trouble understanding is how someone can genuinely believe that they're genderless when being born with no defects

[@user-gf7mt3jd1n]

What are you... /s

[@suquinlan3755]

"Enigmatic presence" Yeah ok little miss snowflake 💅

[@GekkeGeitjes]

Matt calls himself a theocratic fascist, which is funnily enough one of the few truthful things he ever said.

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

And let's me guess he'll use "I'm just being honest" excuse

[@DrTssha]

@@USSAnimeNCC- Which is one reason why I've never bought into the "at least they're being honest" comparison excuse. As though honesty itself can make something better or worse. If someone is honestly awful, authoritarian or evil, I'm going to think they're _worse_ than the person who's lying to themselves about being the same. At least there's good intent there...mislaid, and we all know the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but at least there's something _good_ there to work with...it's not much, but it's something...

[@PochamaRex]

The words “theocratic” and “fascist” already leave a sour taste in my mouth individually, but together it’s just on another level. I hesitate to think too deeply on what that man’s ideal world would look like…

[@aa3302]

@@PochamaRex He would see trans people put in mass graves. That's his ideal world.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

He supports stripping people of their voting rights, thinks arranged marriages are a good idea, said he doesn't believe in teaching kids about consent, and selectively opposes free speech for groups he disagrees with. So yeah, when a fascist shows you their true colors, believe them.

[@Romanticoutlaw]

hot (/s) take, "stereotypical angry trans woman" is a trope meant to silence people who are upset about being harmed. Being trans shouldn't preclude you from being angry any more than it should anyone else--which, is, of course, demonstrated in other areas too like the "angry black woman" stereotype

[@kazikek2674]

I'm not sure if it was deliberately intended as such form that start, but yes, a lot of the time when a trans woman shows genuine anger, there's an immediate ' SEE?! SEE?! IT'S JUST AN ANGRY MAN' backlash. ... and if they don't, they're 'overperfoming femininity and being fake.'

[@ddjsoyenby]

agreed we're angry for genuine reasons, and feeling emotions outside of h@t3 is not invalidation.

[@kaepeterman4394]

As an AFAB non-binary person who frequently gets asked, “To give people patience,” when they first find out about my pronouns (including by people who clearly don’t mean anything by it) and has made the mistake of being upset publicly, it applies to trans guys and AFAB non-binary people too and just closes peoples ears to the thought that we might have a reason to be upset with their behavior.

[@sarafontanini7051]

Local bullies go out of their way to make people angry at them, are surprised when people get angry at them for being bullies. More at 11.

[@nathanksimpson]

When people can merely identify as a victim class, and victimization is empowerment then asserting victimhood is enforcing oppresive tolerance. "I've been victimized so I'm not responsible for my actions and can have a lower standard than everyone else when it comes to anything in life."

[@sQuibleable]

Matt Walsh is what happens when a straw man becomes a real boy

[@ponykazy3725]

I'm picturing Walsh as pinocchio skipping on the yellow brick road

[@void3926]

@@ponykazy3725Matt Walsh Pinocchio be like: FaThEr, WhEn CaN i LeAvE tO bE oN mY oWn?!?! I'vE gOt ThE wHoLe WoRlD tO sEeEeEeE💅

[@tysondennis1016]

Exactly

[@Protomorfid]

This is the single combination of words I ever have and ever will read regarding Matt Walsh.

[@haha-lj5sq]

Jessie Gender is what happens when a straw man becomes a fake girl

[@WendellSexson]

Also I am straight cis male and Walsh enrages me. Wouldn't have watched this if it wasn't Jessie. He's bad for my stress level. The angry trans woman stereotype is dehumanizing garbage. Thanks for what you do. Came for the geek culture and stayed for the justice.

[@simongaudin2506]

Same here - the pathetic excuse for am "man" is in severe need of an old style serious discussion behind the barracks. Talentless jumped up little shite that he is probably still would not learn but it might make his victims feel better.

[@grmpEqweer]

Jessie's lovely, though. 🤓

[@simongaudin2506]

@@grmpEqweer Jessie is indeed lovely & in this case positivity saintly.

[@sarahwatts7152]

"Stayed for the justice." Couldn't have said it better!

[@ianpage2509]

How does he enrage you?

[@pidgeonpatrol861]

Fun fact because I find this fascinating: there’s modern forensic science techniques specifically for identifying gnc and trans individuals from heavily decomposed or skeletonized remains, since not recognizing those factors makes identifying a victim extremely difficult. Though the most obvious signs are considered facial reconstruction surgery, if someone’s been taking hormones long enough their muscle structure changes, which shows up on their bones! And, speaking from an archeological perspective, though we can no longer ask them who they where or how they identified, remains have been found that did not present as their assigned gender. Furthermore, sex traits on skeletons, especially the skull, can sometimes get extremely fiddly! Even a cis skull, modern or ancient can be misidentified.

[@cheezballz8146]

@@slevinchannel7589 I notice on videos like this the right wingers only begin to show themselves in the replys but trust me walsh is very wrong about more than just trans people and i aint going to write i whole essay for you so go ahead and do your own research

[@emmettdonkeydoodle6230]

@@slevinchannel7589 Can you give specific examples on what you think he is right about? From personal experience almost the entirety of these figure heads, both on the left and the right, and heavily misinformed in a plethora of ways

[@CloudsAndDays]

It’s also good to note that identifying gender by bones isn’t entirely accurate. Especially in the skeletons of children and teenagers as sexually dimorphic traits are less prominent.

[@thegrimreaper7]

Provide a source to these studies you mention please. Otherwise you're just lying.

[@alim.9801]

This is so interesting omg

[@LocoGeorge123]

Matt Walsh was irrationally angry over a book that teaches kids about consent and that they’re allowed to say no. I already felt a certain way about him and his anger at that book verified what I thought about him…

[@voidify3]

I think a more accurate explanation can be found by watching the “I hate mondays” video in the alt right playbook series. Basically right wingers are subsceptible to a form of magical thinking of “talking about a thing is what makes it happen, we agree in pure theory that people getting hurt is bad but there’s no way to fully eliminate it so talking about it beyond thoughts and prayers is sinister”. So a conservative getting mad about talking about consent doesn’t necessarily mean he’s an abuser (though he may well be), just that the logical fallacies ingrained in his brain lead him to advocate for just shutting up about abuse

[@rjill7000]

He is a groomer

[@michaelwalerysiak9310]

Teaching kids about sex and consent is grooming because they're not supposed to have sex as minors.

[@Chaosbringer380]

​@@michaelwalerysiak9310 actually sex education keeps kids safe because they know what red flags to look out for

[@thehippydisnerd4887]

​@@michaelwalerysiak9310no need to tell kids the stove is hot, cooking is for grown-ups.

[@theKRB93]

I can guarantee if my 6 year old read that book, the message she would glean from it is "oh sh-t I won't pretend to be a walrus then" lmao He put in so much effort to make kids afraid of anything trans but all he accomplished was shaming walruses

[@mountainharpie]

I'm a trans walrus ally too...

[@andrewkoster6506]

bad analogy is bad

[@rachelnotluf4585]

YOUR child would probably understand that you would never actually turn them into a walrus. That’s the stuff of evil fairy tale witches and Kevin Smith horror movies. Now, Matt Walsh’s children, on the other hand…

[@andrewkoster6506]

@@theivory1 what

[@erikdaniels0n]

@@rachelnotluf4585 the sentence “man, this book that was allegedy written for children reads an awful lot like that Kevin Smith body horror movie” should never be uttered ever, and I hate Matt Walsh for making me think that

[@sylvainmichaud2262]

Kind of ironic to invite trans people under false pretenses to make a film that complains about people who, according to him, are misrepresenting themselves.

[@OllamhDrab]

This has been the Christian Right and corporate media for fourty years. (Also, FYI the notion of "The Liberal Media" was among the first and biggest Big Lies.)

[@thunderbird3304]

For real. Who's the predatory, lying one again?

[@sylvainmichaud2262]

@@thunderbird3304 Walsh is even predatory with children.

[@thunderbird3304]

@@sylvainmichaud2262 Sorry, not to defend Walsh, but I've seen quite a few people do this. I find it a bit sus to insinuate that he's a PDF file with little to no evidence. From what I've seen of him, it seems like he just... resents children and sees them as little more than a nuisance, which makes it more bizarre that he has four of them. I'm actually more worried that he abuses his own kids (either physically or through neglect)

[@sylvainmichaud2262]

@@thunderbird3304 You are right about his behaviour with kids and refering to his own kids. This guy is a psychopath with no empathy towards children. There is more than one way to abuse kids. Pretty scary !

[@transformations4684]

It's cheap and easy to pick on marginalized people for personal gain. History shows this time and again. It isn't brave or glorious or whatever, it's being a bully. Jessie Gender, I admire your creativity and wit as well as the strength you dredge up to call out the bull.

[@gloriasangermano3687]

But this 'marginalized'people claiming trans women are women should at least have a certain idea of what a woman is.otherwise its them bullying all of us

[@bogboyz]

gloria, did you even watch the video? why are you here?

[@gloriasangermano3687]

@@bogboyz who's picking who?

[@xXEGPXx]

@@gloriasangermano3687 Hey Gloria, got some quick advice for you: how about before arguing your position you learn to speak English at above a third grade level. Just a thought.

[@gloriasangermano3687]

@@xXEGPXx what about focusing on the heart of the matter without annoying non english speakers with pedantic grammar remarks?What about not being third grade level people but adult people?just a thought

[@glassrobot1759]

There was a commercial for Autism speaks in front of this. WTF.

[@JessieGender1]

Uggg that sucks. Sorry that happened

[@mountainharpie]

Commercials are frickin evil...and I don't use that word lightly...

[@xXNibiNoNekoXx]

Are you able to report commercials? I've personally never tried before.

[@fionatastic0.070]

@@xXNibiNoNekoXx Sometimes? It depends on where they’re posted it seems. If you see the three dots next to the video you usually can, otherwise unfortunately no.

[@JayPharmD]

There's a REASON for it. 😂😂

[@NineToFiveGamerUC0079]

I'm with you Jess. We need to fight for with fire I'm not trans. I'm an African man who's had to hear, constantly how horrible black people are. I turn on the news and people cheer for our deaths. I'm ready to fight with words against bad actors.

[@bugzta236]

hope your doing great man.

[@hithere7080]

@@billymitchell655 try harder

[@MercenaryPine9]

You’re amazing for this. ❤️ Thank you. In my experience, a good portion of hate also comes from our cis POC brothers and sisters, but seeing people like you gives me hope. Especially for the black trans women out there, one of the most targeted demographics for violent crime and sexual assault. Thank you for your wonderful allyship. We are all better together. Black and trans liberation is liberation for all! ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️

[@alim.9801]

We will fight together 💜💜

[@keithsanford1374]

A great deal of us ARE horrible. Go fight in the black neighborhoods against black on black crime before fighting against people who simply talk about it…

[@erikdaniels0n]

Johnny the Walrus is like that “Go The Fuck To Sleep” book that was written for parents as a parody of children’s books, only filtered through the lense of the Kevin Smith movie Tusk and transphobia

[@elegantoddity8609]

Yeah that's what's damning about it. Because even as it positions itsef as a kids book, it's not targeted at the child. The child in the book isnt the protagonist, the parent is. This is her story, not his. It's not trying to teach the child something, but rather warning the parent about the dangerous gender idealogy people who'll push you to push your child into being something they aren't. It's just what he usually does with simpler wording and a cartoon art style.

[@calvinwhite8231]

lol maybe people would take some of trans arguments seriously if you didn't just slap transphobia on anything that doesn't agree. Like when i see a person use the word transphobia its a big red flag for their arguments.

[@elegantoddity8609]

@@calvinwhite8231 Note phobia doesn't necessarily indicate fear. Phobic can simply mean "repulsed by" (antonym of -philic), either out of anger or disgust.

[@Dutch3DMaster]

@@elegantoddity8609 It's more damning that he accuses trans people of brainwashing children by using explicit examples in education and books (which is not what happens), and then goes unhinged to be absolutely sure that he does just exactly that...I mean, accusing us of one thing that is not happening and then making sure that you do is really hypocritical...

[@Dutch3DMaster]

@@calvinwhite8231 You know? If someone says "I have a hard time understanding that" on an explanation about gender dysphoria, that's OK. I get that, it's how most people have never had that second thought about how their body looks and why that doesn't looks what they feel inside that trans people usually will have had, sometimes from a very young age onwards. That's not transphobia, that's someone who tried their best to be genuinely curious and acknowledges that taking time to understand something might be needed, or that it might not ever land with someone, but who is a person with basic respect in trying to understand you. Matt Walsh however is someone who thinks it needs to be perfectly fine that, as an ADULT male, it needs to be normalized to hate a very particular group of children, and stoke his "fans" to bomb-threat a children's hospital for spreading the lie about what that hospital supposedly was doing to transchildren (surgeries performed on children below 16, which is not true), with his fans being just stupid and angry and especially fearful enough for not realizing that that hospital also has OTHER forms of medical care in wards all across the building. So when he viciously shouts we need to be "protecting children": maybe do that, maybe do that by NOT hating a particular group of children as an adult man, maybe not incite violence against a complete CHILDREN's hospital just because you ignore the fact that there are other wards than a gender clinic in there. Maybe not attack transchildren if you are so concerned with their wellbeing as an ADULT. THAT's when and why we call someone transphobic, not someone not being unable to understand a single thing, but when it's someone's mere goal to get legislation to pass based on lies, fear and a vicious hatred of transpeople and ALSO likes to monetize off of these viewpoints, and does it's ABSOLUTE best to visit meetings he should not be capable of speaking at (for not being a parent or citizen of a city or state of the school that the meeting is for). Next to this: he makes absolutely sure to call us groomers, rapists (and shooting himself in the foot with that one, according to him transwomen are all just men wanting to rape women, so that includes him ;) ), brings up the supposed brainwashing that we do ALL the time. That's when and why we call someone transphobic. The mere fact you fail to see this distinction ALONG with the fact that the trans community has been surprisingly resilient AND composed in responding to these deranged individuals who are spewing so much hate, is really worrying.

[@PsycoAxeFairy]

Matt Walsh so clearly has a wallet where most people have a soul and it shines in the way he tries to both weaponize and MONETIZE innocent children while being so throughly uninterested in the performance he’s forcing himself to put on. Even a cashier can fake more soul.

[@seekingabsolution1907]

That's because cashiers often have kind nurturing souls that are slowly strangled whenever they're at work. Walsh is a man who bricked up his soul inside a wall cask of emantiado style and never lets it out, ever.

[@SA-mo3hq]

Nice concern trolling bro

[@SA-mo3hq]

Wet Mulch is definitely a Chaser. All the vicious transphobes turn out to be Chasers

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

@@jamiehopkins3796 Wrong. Teaching kids about LGBTQ topics and exposing them to LGBTQ topics does not turn them gay or trans, because conversion therapy does not work. Study after study has thoroughly refuted the idea that a person's sexuality or gender identity can be forcibly changed through outside influence. If you think merely hearing about trans issues will turn people trans, that says more about you than it does about anyone else. Also, you're misreading the study, probably on purpose. The "resolution" of gender dysphoria was based on misdiagnoses, so that doesn't count. The suicide rate post-transition did in fact decrease, but was still higher than the general population due to discrimination from transphobes, like you. And for someone so concerned about messing with children's brains, nothing does that more so than your pushing trans kids back into the closet and forcing them to live out their assigned gender role.

[@snoog8447]

@@SA-mo3hq "wet mulch" What an amazing name. I love this

[@asmrplushpaws]

I dislike matt with a burning passion. A big reason he became more popular was through ad promotion. KZbin should not alow bigots to promote videos...

[@mountainharpie]

Hearing the words Clap Back come out of his mouth made me shudder...

[@asmrplushpaws]

@@jamiehopkins3796 Why do I feel you are reffering to transphobic cis women who feel "threatened" by trans women... Whatever you mean, someone (Matt) who hates trans people does not truly speak up for women.

[@shaunmccomish8572]

@@jamiehopkins3796 Weird how no one disputed Walsh's right to free speech. Jessie simply criticised his horse flop. At no point was it suggested Walsh should be sent to a gulag for being an arsehole. Freedom of speech is not a vindication of all speech or defence from moral criticism. Just because you have a right to say things does not mean you should say them with no pushback. This is a real pet peeve of mine; freedom of speech is such an important right but is reduced to a get out of jail free card for bigots.

[@asmrplushpaws]

@@jamiehopkins3796 I never said that. Is said youtube shouldn't allow bigots to promote videos. But now that i think about it, yeah, he shouldn't have a platform here either! :)

[@shaunmccomish8572]

@@jamiehopkins3796 Smurfs are lovable little blue people who live peacefully in the forest when not being hassled by Gargamel. Terfs are a different story. Also simply going "free speech, free speech" in an argument about bigotry is rather poor I must say.

[@hunterwise5661]

I needed this video. I had a conversation with someone who doesn't realize I'm non-binary and she went into some TERF territory with me. It was very uncomfortable and while I don't think she means anything harmful by it, I ended up crying in my car on the way home from work. I think more people need to open these discussions. People like her don't get to hear our voices and many of us in the community are afraid to come out (me, I'm talking about me). Thank you for producing this content.

[@dcmarvelcomicfans9458]

@@Houseofpheromones0 take your bigotry somewhere else

[@1995Auburn]

@@Houseofpheromones0 why on earth are you commenting on this video, what a loser.

[@zoyadulzura7490]

@@Houseofpheromones0 That's not all they said. It wasn't "just" misgendering, she expressed views that aligned with TERF perspectives. Also, why is it bad to get upset about being misgendered? They were sharing an upsetting encounter that reinforces just how normalized transphobia is, where people will say transphobic things without being very aware of it, simply from lack of understanding in the matter rather than out of malice.

[@grmpEqweer]

Remember, trolls are sadists. They enjoy upsetting you.

[@grmpEqweer]

@A Foster Fellow Enby here. I'm also stealth, mostly. Talking about that at work seems like a giant, dangerous mess. ... Talking about my politics is somewhat similar.

[@lucadivine3862]

Jessie's literally just like, "If you're gonna insult me do it properly!" Love it! Thank you from a fellow transfem~ 💜🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️

[@pepi7404]

That's an adorable profile picture.

[@bainbonic]

I used to do that in high school when the bullies came calling. Actually worked.

[@snoyoclan2519]

@@bainbonic I'm sure u did, now go back to writing ur self insert fanfic

[@bainbonic]

@@snoyoclan2519 Not able to imagine not being bullied says more about you than me, buddy. XD

[@EZOnTheEyes]

Dr. Phil has done much more harm than good to the mental health community, and to most of the guests that appear on his show. He's not even a licensed Doctor. I wasn't surprised when he platformed Walsh, considering his history of platforming and defending Transphobes. He's as bad (if not worse) than Walsh himself.

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

Was an asshole dam and millions watch this guy smh

[@littlelordfuckleroy3822]

@@kennethc2466 Dr. Phil, using his massive platform to bring on unlicensed people to talk about trans issues with the intent of sounding like a medical professional is COMPLETELY different than a trans KZbinr, who has never claimed to be a professional, talking about their own lived experience. You know the difference, don’t play dumb.

[@sarahwatts7152]

Illuminaughti did a video on [Dr.] Phil that's informative and enraging. He may well have had his medical license taken away if he didn't let it lapse...

[@LiarJudas666]

@@kennethc2466 go find the horizon, bigot. It'll be a better use of your and our time

[@cremetangerine82]

I’ll never forget the one episode where he wanted a woman to divorce her husband because he cross-dressed. Not for any good reason or even understanding his motivation (he was into it as a fetish, or was a trans woman), but just because he cross-dressed. He’s a poor excuse for a psychologist or human.

[@PochamaRex]

There is something I can’t stand about the whole “if they found your bones they would classify you as the sex you’re born with, so why should we respect your gender identity?” argument: For one, archaeological digs can also uncover items and clothing with the remains which might indicate more about who the person was and how they might have identified or been seen in their time. Even then, it will likely be very different to contemporary notions of gender identity or roles. Furthermore, and this is more personal, it doesn’t matter what people initially think of my bone structure or whatever if they found my body hundreds to thousands of years in the future! I will be too dead to care by then! It’s more important that people recognize and respect my identity and personhood HERE AND NOW while I’m alive, and whatever physical features I or anyone else might have is not going to stop that, because the internal sense of self is not bound by the constraints of the body. This is not to say that one shouldn’t make whatever actions for their body to fit their internal self, just that the physical body should not be the arbiter of whether the internal self is recognized. It’s not hard to treat someone with dignity, even when their experience in and of the world is different from yours

[@williewonka9805]

He isn't even telling the truth about the archaeologists in the future being able to tell your gender. The skeletons with distinct gender characteristics are rare. They're graded on a scale of likeliest to be one gender or another and most people end up somewhere in the middle. It's just that in CSI shows people can tell instantly, otherwise the show wouldn't work.

[@ChristyAbbey]

@@williewonka9805 He also doesn't get that there's a pretty significant amount of bone re-knitting that goes on in transition. As my aching body will affirm.

[@gloriasangermano3687]

The problem comes when you ask the key question what is a woman.if woman is just a social construction well give me at least a social definition of woman

[@liviwaslost]

@@gloriasangermano3687 that’s the thing. It’s a social construct. It depends on society/culture, so there isn’t one definition. Plus, it’s just rude to define people like that. I’m a woman but I wouldn’t want someone else to define who I am.

[@ChristyAbbey]

@@gloriasangermano3687 Sure. Me and a bunch o other people. (This is not an answerable question, though my answer is accurate.)

[@nanamiharuka3269]

those poor kids, imagine them actually realizing they’re trans later or even just have progressive politics and have to live with the fact that their parents put them in a video like that…

[@LittleMissLounge]

There used to be this thing (I'm sure it's still a thing sometimes) where anyone left-of-center would wish pricks like MW would have a LGBT kid. I think the idea was they would be forced to have a change of heart because it's their kid FFS, but as we all know... that kid would truly be in a special kind of hell. I'm glad I don't run into this thing as much anymore.

[@kazikek2674]

@@LittleMissLounge There is a subset of conservative parents that opened up a little when they realized what close-minded views were doing to their kids and relationships to their kids, but I find it incredibly hard to believe Matt in particular would have any change of heart when exposed to that experience.

[@Wandering.Homebody]

Well luckily that's statistically incredibly unlikely :)

[@Thegenderfluiddinosaur]

@@LittleMissLounge yeah it's still a thing I encounter it every now and again and part of me finds it kinda funny but most of me hopes their not LGBT just so they aren't bullyied as much

[@headdown1]

Imagine the poor kids who according to statistics most likely would have left his trans identity behind if his parents hadn't guided him to chopping off body parts as a kid. Now he can't have an orgasm, and can't be a father, and doesn't even feel "trans" anymore as an adult. Thanks mom and dad!.

[@void3926]

Your final comment of "people will die on this battlefield" hit me like a fucking brick. Because you're right. I'm non binary, I am very lucky to have a steady support system for this exact topic in a country that isn't generally trans friendly, and I know that a lot of people wouldn't be here if it wasn't for similar support systems (accepting family, friends, online communities, etc). What people like Matt Walsh are doing isn't just drama, or trolling, or whatever. It's dangerous, and it can be deadly.

[@void3926]

@Beefcake Trynna cope with your lackluster response, y'all really don't have new jokes and that's sad, especially when you're replying to comments about serious topics. Trans people in my country have been murdered. Trans people in my city have been beaten up and stabbed because they're trans. One of my friends got chased down the street being called a tranny by a group of men. Even if you don't like trans people or our existence, no human being should be treated like that. I sincerely hope you have a good day.

[@pilomalik9696]

lol try living in a 3rd world war zone. thats actually dangerous. you being able to call Matt deadly and dangerous really shows your first world privilege.

[@void3926]

@@pilomalik9696 TLDR: Matt influences people to be openly transphobic, something that can literally be a death sentence to queer folks as people get killed and no one bats an eye, and both issues are equally as important since we need to solve BOTH of them if we want to live peacefully. Obviously war is a more urgent matter, but let's not pretend that queer people aren't affected by war and in different ways, as I am mentioning later on. We are murdered in the streets and no one bats an eye, in what is supposed to be a civilized society. Matt Walsh's rhetoric IS dangerous and deadly. The fact that other things can be dangerous and deadly doesn't negate this situation's danger and deadliness. The fact that you are so quick to dismiss people's suffering just shows how privileged you are. I mentioned it above, queer people are murdered in my country. As I mentioned above, a friend of mine got chased by dudes while being yelled transphobic slurs at. There's been attacks against trans people in my city and no one batted an eye. A young queer person was grabbed by the throat and punched for wearing eyeshadow. A trans woman went missing and after a few days they found her dead body in the street, she was the victim of a hit n run cause our lives mean so little to people. There was a young queer person, who was being chased, went into a jewelry store to hide. He was obviously not well, as he was stumbling around. The guy fell to the ground and the owner of the shop started kicking him in the head. When the police arrived on the scene they ALSO started kicking his head when he tried to get away from the shop owner. That guy was killed due to all the head trauma. That guy was a famous queer rights activist, and drag queen, Zackie. Existing as ourselves, outside of society's boxes of what gender and presentation are is literally extremely dangerous for us as we could get abused, chased, catcalled and then ridiculed, murdered and left for dead. We have to keep our heads low if we want to keep them. I'm not negating the importance of war as it is a horrible thing that thousands of people die from, but this isn't the video for that. Which is why it wasn't mentioned. EVEN IF war is ALSO fkn shit for queer people, obviously. Like those trans women in Ukraine right now who cannot exit their country because Ukraine is so transphobic it's almost impossible to change the identification on your certificates. So those trans women have to stay in a fkn warzone cause they don't have the correct documentation, because the the government is transphobic, and therefore either have to stay there and die, or go stealth mode, which isn't easy when you've lived a lot of your life being yourself and you have to revert back to that. Aside from the debilitating dysphoria one might experience. In addition to that, these trans women have the chance to be brutally abused and murdered if they do chose to go to the borders and people realize they're trans. As for trans men, not only does their identification not match, which brings up all of the previous points I made, they are also expected to go to war and if they don't they're not "men enough". That logic is extremely flawed and I hope I don't have to explain why. Again, ofc people who experience war go through shit, I'm not saying they don't. All I'm saying is that trans people also go through hell and we shouldn't invalidate that. Cause honestly, are you REALLY using the argument "other people have it worse :(" like yeah, no shit. Everyone has different experiences, some people are luckier than others. But I bet that everyone has at least ONE thing that could get them to be a sobbing mess on the floor. Are you gonna tell someone who lost a family member or smth that they're not going through enough to express that grief? Are we not allowed to mourn the people who have gone through hell and back anymore? If your suffering is greater than mine, does that mean I just get to be happy? Or do we both need fkn therapy, and a support system, and everything a person who's going through the worst experience ever needs? At the end of the day it's not about who's got it worse, it's about helping EVERYONE as much as possible. If you've read all of this, thank you 💜/gen

[@Lagchunk]

Deadly to what? Your feelings?

[@void3926]

@@Lagchunk bestie, bestie, I wrote 10 fucking paragraphs on how it's dangerous and deadly for trans people's LIVES. The fact that you think the only thing hurting is feelings just shows how utterly ignorant you are.

[@fairiesandlillies3471]

I found out I was trans in my late twenties and I know I did not become trans becuase I have always felt like this

[@senescence57]

Even if you did "become trans", there'd be nothing wrong with that either!

[@AdaTheWatcher]

@@senescence57 agreed, I myself am currently very gender confused myself, I wear dresses as a male at home but I'm not Shure if I'm trans or not. I do feel a little upset I can't wear the clothes I like outside.

[@bainbonic]

@@AdaTheWatcher That's entirely fair. It can take time to figure ourselves out because identity is extremely complicated, personal, and emotional. Some people figure it out instantly, others have to explore it. No matter where you find yourself in the end, as long as you're true to you, you're doing it right.

[@CharlotteSWeb-oh7ou]

@@dlg78 ...Says the person making up a fantasy stereotype about trans people. Stop feeling entitled to the bodies of others, you people are so toxic and always project.

[@krossraig7370]

@@AdaTheWatcher Wear the dress. You are a man and a dress and I am sure it is stunning. If you wear the dress and say you are a woman you will still only be a man in a dress.

[@becklong5111]

One thing we LGBTQ people are good at is reclamation, especially of insults and slurs people like him throw at us. I’ve always found it amazing that we seem to have the ability to take it, laugh at it, and adopt it in stride. We’re certainly (sadly) never going to run out of material, so would you do a video on the history of reclamation within the LGBTQ community? Also, I will never be one to complain about you making long videos; good things take time to say. I like to listen while I draw or clean to keep me thinking. (Also, if Matt is a “straight LGBTQ member”, is he -dare I say it- a trans man????)

[@ArchieHalliwell]

Or Matt could be e g g

[@nickapvikes]

I also liked how she repurposed Walsh’s show’s terrible opening guitar riff for the transitions in the video 👍

[@ianpage2509]

What was the slur he used? Because when I was watching his stuff I didn’t see anything.

[@cthulhutheendless1587]

@@saggysampson9373 -Learn to spell Q-tip correctly

[@kommisar.]

"I’ve always found it amazing that we seem to have the ability to take it, laugh at it, and adopt it in stride." Ha! That's a joke, right? Your numerous self-taken, hysterical unhinged, "rant" videos, protests, efforts to doxx and cancel people, social media posts about having nightmares and depression spirals after being "attacked", tantrums, etc. prove the exact opposite. "Take it, laugh at it and adopt it in stride"? That must be why all those activists went outside Netflix HQ and protested Dave Chappell, right?

[@jalainasrandomness3165]

If Mattie 'Cancels' you, you'll join a long list of people that are doing all the right things. But sadly you'd be subject to that guitar riff.

[@cremetangerine82]

Sadly, he canceled Amazon probably for the wrong reasons and not because they’re a monopolistic capitalist nightmare.

[@haha-lj5sq]

He’s also cancelled things like “traffic” and “long lines at fast food places”, do you think those are good too?

[@drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749]

It just means you're laughably bad

[@brandonrathbone3690]

@@haha-lj5sq yeah, that bigot really showed how much of anold, bigoted boomer he is when he did that. it was really funny. 🤣

[@brandonrathbone3690]

@@drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749 how hypocritical.

[@user-uu2cj9ct3j]

Walsh’s tactics to reel in trans people for his documentary are just downright sinister… and really gross. You create great discussions on this channel, but you gave him a lot more than he even deserved here honestly. On a side note though, I really like the look, especially the waistcoat.

[@user-uu2cj9ct3j]

Oh also, don’t apologize for the 2-hr videos, they are always really good!

[@ddjsoyenby]

honestly we need to stop playing nice and just scream at people like matt to f off or get p**ched.

[@user-uu2cj9ct3j]

Um… hon, you do realize the documentary wasn’t out yet when she made this video right? And when he tries to trick people into conversations for the purpose of misrepresenting them, yeah, it is still gross.

[@dante6985]

@@Topak420 Sorry to 'dogpile' on you but: -Release date of this video: Feb 11, 2022 -Release date of Matt Walsh's "What is a Woman?" Documentary: May 2022

[@headdown1]

So it's sinister and gross to let trans activists hang themselves with their own words? Matt just asked simple questions and let them make fools of themselves trying to answer. What is gross and sinister about that?

[@Skarry]

The book is at least at the reading level of his audience.

[@Rupert3434]

Can I also just say that the art is awful, the font is awful, and it looks like the graphic designer had no idea what they were doing.

[@Skarry]

@@Rupert3434 yes you may, and I agree.

[@quinndawsonosgood5261]

The book was written for transphobic parents not the kids imho. The irony is it's being sold as a kids book.

[@technopoptart]

@@Rupert3434 to be fair, can you imagine someone _wanting_ to draw for that sort of book? X''D not a surprise it looks like they got literally the first person they could find who could(kinda) draw a humanish shape to be the artist

[@quinndawsonosgood5261]

@@janepatton8100 the scientific, medical and academic consensus supports transgender and nonbinary people. The inconsistencies are yours.

[@juliamuffinmonster1838]

Completely beside the point but I'm a librarian and here's how the Dewey Decimal System works! It's actually pretty easy: In a library, fiction is organized by author's names (and sometimes subdivided by genre, mystery often gets its own section, for example). But if we did that in nonfiction, then stuff about the same subject wouldn't be together. Which is annoying, especially since that's not how people think approach reading nonfiction books for the most part. When people read or look for nonfiction, it's less likely because you're interested in the author (with a few notable exceptions for someone who's really well-known, like Mary Roach or Malcolm Gladwell or something), and more because they're interested in the subject. The Dewey Decimal System exists because we needed a way to sort books by subject, and so a guy named John Dewey basically made a list of every subject and assigned it arbitrary numbers, with similar subjects being numerically close to each other. The number for WWI histories is followed by the number for histories of the Great Depression is followed by histories of WWII. Like all classifications it's not perfect (poetry and plays are in this under "nonfiction" even though they're technically fiction, biographies have their own section sorted by last name of subject and are in a completely different section of the library usually, there's some baked-in problematic attitudes/racism because this was thought up in the 1800's so of course there is) but it works well enough. You don't need to have any idea what number correlates with what - most librarians only know a few big sections, like cookbooks (641!), by heart. If you need a nonfiction book at a library and don't want to ask a librarian to help you (though we're happy to help! It's our job!) you can go to a computer with the catalog on it. Type in the specific title/author you want or a general subject keyword and you will be given a number. All nonfiction books are going to have two things on them, an at least three digit number and under that three letters that are the first three letters of the author's last name. Nonfiction is sorted in numerical order FIRST, so the order on a shelf would look something like: 123, 123.001, 123.082, 123.107. The three letters only become important if you're in a section where there are a lot of books under that number. 811, for example, is North American poetry, which is usually a pretty big section! That's sorted alphabetically within the call number, so Maya Angelou (811 ANG) would be followed by Margaret Atwood (811 ATW), who would be followed by Elizabeth Bishop (811 BIS). Hope this helps, and happy reading!

[@mountainharpie]

Super simple!!😉😁💚🫂🌈

[@ZijnShayatanica]

THANK YOU FOR THIS COMMENT. It was a very nice break from the content of the video & other comments, hahahah 😂🤣

[@dunstvangeet1500]

Bah! The Library of Congress system is so superior than Dewey Decimal System. Everybody should switch to it!

[@nonexistingvoid]

This is very helpful and interesting! Thank you for sharing

[@electronics-girl]

But I don't think we should be glorifying Melvil Dewey. He's the answer to the question, "What if Harvey Weinstein was a librarian?"

[@rachaelbao]

I really connected with the moment where the little tiny sweetie-pie child walks up to the bad book man and says, "So what's this thing doing on the floor, though?" First, thanks to that child for neither eating that unidentified object, nor forcing it into his or anyone else's orifices. Second, that kind of thing happens a lot to us uncharismatic teachers who can't engage a class even at the bast of times for more than a few seconds. It was so reassuring to see a confident white man endure that while he tries to both do them harm and use them as pawns harming other people. When kids start picking stuff up off the floor, it's well past song and game time, but aren't we all glad we didn't have to see the bad book man sing a song or play a game with little tiny ones? I guess. :)

[@cremetangerine82]

Honestly, they were so bored during the book reading, they were more fascinated by what was on the floor than what Matt Walsh was reading from his garbage children’s book!

[@electronics-girl]

Aww, I would have liked to have seen the child force the unidentified object into Matt Walsh's orifices.

[@jgcoverkknot5701]

@@electronics-girl I bet he did and they cut it out

[@st.anselmsfire3547]

I can sympathize with going all-in on Walsh, because he seems like a genuinely terrible human being. Like when you see the way he talks about his own children. He commits the double-sin of being both insufferably smug and impossibly stupid. He tries to make a sincere version of the "attack copter goes brrr!" attack on transgender people, while aggressively misunderstanding the difference between sex and gender and refusing to let people explain how one is biological and the other is a social construct that has changed significantly within his own lifetime.

[@LiarJudas666]

@@Houseofpheromones0 so when did you realize what gender you are, bigot?

[@ThylineTheGay]

i feel so sorry for his children

[@kommisar.]

Then answer his question: What is a woman?

[@korn6657]

@lemonssssssss4 it goes both ways

[@reneedailey1696]

When all they get back is gaslighting, sealioning and being ignored, why expect anyone to engage people like him- Or you? When you're approaching them in bad faith and assuming you're right, no one is obligated to put up with that.

[@ksdtsubfil6840]

"You can't shame the shameless." Let's rumble, Walsh. If you think this is a battleground then we will not back down.

[@OllamhDrab]

In the words of Mal Reynolds: "If I start fighting a war, I guarantee you'll see something new."

[@germacyde]

You couldn't fight yourself out of a wet paper bag...PUHHLEASE!! LOL!!!!

[@ksdtsubfil6840]

@@germacyde Says the person who gets riled up because of the fight for trans rights. You don't even have skin in the game yet you're here. I was about to say a little bit of education on your part might help, but from the looks of it you're a lost cause. Girl bye.

[@OllamhDrab]

@@germacyde Umm, I *wouldn't* fight my way out of a paper bag, cause it's only a paper bag. Silly person posturing at random Internet people you don't know. :)

[@LevadeNZ]

I've said this before on Jessie's videos, but I'm a cis woman who is prescribed a drug that, in trans kids, can also be used as a puberty blocker. For me it's medically induced menopause, and quite frankly? It has more risks in my adult body than it does in a child's, and has more benefits to trans children than it does to me - and I'm taking it as a life preserving measure. It's very safe, easily reversible (I know, turns out my body wants the 3 month implant every 2 months and I fell out of induced menopause so fast), and overall just not a big deal. Some of the fearmongering over puberty blockers so clearly comes from transphobes not understanding how these medications work, what other applications they have, and just how common they are in applications other than as a puberty blocker. Adult cis men and women use these drugs ALL THE TIME for hormone dependent cancers and illnesses, with few side effects. Trans kids have even less side effects.

[@user-uu2cj9ct3j]

Ironic that they don’t know how the medications work, when they are claiming trans people don’t understand biology & biological processes.

[@simongaudin2506]

My great niece was on them to give her a rest from her severe endometriosis whilst awaiting surgery to remove her ovaries & was fine got mild menopausal like symptoms but nothing on her endometriosis. Kids don't get those and they where developed to delay puberty in cases of precocious puberty so intended to treat kids specifically. Denying them to those that need them and spreading lies about them to scare off worried parents is wicked & to do so for personal or political gain outright evil in my opinion

[@QuikVidGuy]

@@AustinFan4Life you're mixing rare cases with decades-long effects of aging, side effects that exist in many medications, and overall minor things that are about your personal taste (changes in weight? oh yeah very life threatening.) and not a single hint as to how you got this info or that you even understand what a good deal of it means or how it works

[@ChristyAbbey]

@@AustinFan4Life Yes. Trans people can't get rid of the transphobic cancer. Nice to see you did research on mumsnet. Side effect of the drug I take: anemia, osteoporosis, prolonged bleeding, heart failure, thinning skin. That's not the trans drugs; that's the drug I take for my heart stent, ftr. Plus most of the ones above. Saying that they're possible side effects doesn't mean they will happen, just to be aware that it's possible. It's possible you'll stop being transphobic, but *sigh* that's a low probability occurance.

[@ChristyAbbey]

@@AustinFan4Life Not trying. And I know the Mumsnet creedo by now; every actively online trans person does. If you didn't do it specifically there, then you cut/pasted from someone who did. Where you got it is irrelevant to your misuse of it as a dire warning. But you're not ready to actually defend your wanting to harm trans children in the guise of protecting them.

[@MsSumoon]

I AS a children's book illustrator and author kind of feel insulted that this awful man wrote this book and idk who illustrated it but I find it amazing that some artists side with extremists, like do they know they don't have ANY respect for our profession? I truly bet he paid less than minimum for these illustrations that is not to be mean but they look very very amateur and my god his book looks poorly designed.

[@thunderbird3304]

Maybe he underpaid the illustrator and as revenge they just asked their kid to draw the book for him. I think that's the best explanation I have for why the illustration's so amateurish

[@Kreylem1]

I think it looks more like he did them him self

[@pawmo3162]

@Murals and Music are it for Me how do they sound hateful? Could you explain?

[@thunderbird3304]

@Murals and Music are it for Me I guess I'm jealous because if my guess is correct, they managed to troll Matt Walsh

[@technopoptart]

@Murals and Music are it for Me kiddo, you should go enjoy some kitten videos. something tells me you could benefit from something soft simple and easy on the mind

[@user-pr4ur9kx6m]

Trans women don’t exist? I wonder if he’d feel the same way of a bunch of trans women used the mens room. Would he be uncomfortable with a bunch of women in the mens room? He’d probably say “hey lady! This is the mens room!” He, like the rest of us, labels trans women as women without knowing it. For that matter, how do we know Matt is a man? We assume based on his presentation.

[@boognewsnetwork7620]

I’d be even more interested to see his reaction if he saw a trans man going into the woman’s restroom with this wife or daughter or sister; I doubt he would be okay with it😂 Even though that is what he & people like him are ultimately actually in fact advocating for🙃🥴

[@toddashi]

@@boognewsnetwork7620 Exactly! Michael Hughes posted a few selfies in women's rooms to illustrate this point. He's a trans man. If you image search Michael Hughes bathroom, you can find several of his posts.

[@technopoptart]

something tells me he wouldn't give a toss what happens in an actual woman's bathroom. he's exclusively interested in the hypothetical bathroom that exists only in the minds of the paranoid conservative. real ones aren't even on the radar

[@technopoptart]

@@dlg78 quite literally all of those features are shared by individuals both cis and trans across both lines and all the way through the space in-between AND all of those features can also be bought with surgeries

[@copenwiththestress3732]

@@dlg78 local transphobe reveals they dont know what voice training, shaving and hrt are. More news at 6

[@zoyadulzura7490]

"Please find more creative ways to hate me." I laughed even though it makes my heart hurt. Also, it's so deceptive that Abigail Shrier wears what looks like a doctor coat, when she's a jounalist/author. PragerU uses such slimy tactics to influence viewers.

[@Dutch3DMaster]

Big words to call someone like Abigail Shrier a journalist...an author, well, yea, but a journalist being incapable of doing the proper research is pretty much a stretch in every definition of the word :P . I hope someone calls her out on that look though, it is absolutely clear what she is trying to do there...

[@cappuccinocrafts2412]

When Matt Walsh (or any right wing person) dares to make an argument based on "truth" vs. "untruth", I just can't. Can't. After they spout and embrace "alternate facts" and conspiracy theories constantly for years. Nope. They can't argue on the basis of caring about or defending the idea of "truth". So, I already know Matt Walsh is talking nonsense.

[@ralphiesarch8980]

Just because someone agrees with some things within a political party doesn't mean they believe everything coming out of that party. Seeing the other side as all of them believing every little thing a random person who claims that side says is just not being grounded in reality.

[@CharlotteSWeb-oh7ou]

@@ralphiesarch8980 And if the right wing didn't invariably all support each other in no matter what against any outside opinions and vote in lockstep for whomever is up for the election on their side, no matter what, then you would have a point.

[@haha-lj5sq]

The truth is that if you are born with XY chromosomes you are a Man/Male.

[@zexionthefirst6767]

"Trying to make vests a thing" No, listen, you aren't trying. You're succeeding. I literally paused the video to go rummage through my closet to find a vest I haven't worn in over a decade just to have solidarity with you, fam.

[@cbecht]

I'm 30 minutes into the video and had to search the comments to see if anyone was talking about how awesome that vest is. Didn't catch the "make vests a thing" line; just really like the vest.

[@SaviourInDistress]

By vests do you guys mean waistcoats? Edit im genuienly asking. In scotland vest means a tank top type thing you wear under your normal clothes. No one really wears them nowadays. Waistcoat means that grey sleevless top she has on in the video. I wear them alot. Its a great look

[@phantomstarsx9343]

@@SaviourInDistress that is interesting. definitionally (in the US anyway) yes a vest is basically just a waistcoat, aside from formality, i'm not 100% sure what the difference is otherwise.

[@creatrixZBD]

Where in the lgbt world have you been these last million years? The vest is most definitely a thing, it’s kind of a lesbian in-joke

[@stupidusername3333]

Jessie is the hero America doesn't deserve, but she is the one it needs right now.

[@FinntasticMrFox]

Thank you for putting your time and emotional labour into topics like this one, Jessie. They're definitely exhausting, even in light of the good you're accomplishing by discussing them, so I hope the rest of your day is going to be filled with fun activities and Newt cuddles. Matt Walsh is absolutely a grifter. Trans people have become a very easy way for conservatives to stir up fear and make money in the process; I think there's something else going on with guys like Walsh and Crowder, though. The level of fixation is too extreme, both of them need serious help unpacking their hatred and the places it's stemming from.

[@JessieGender1]

Thank you Finn, and thank you for suggesting I do this one ❤️

[@mountainharpie]

Grateful to you both!!!💚💚💚

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

For a cis man, Crowder seems to own an awful lot of women's clothing, just sayin'. "It's for a bit, I swear!"

[@Usagi393]

I’m usually not a fan of the idea that “anti-trans folks are secretly repressed themselves” but honestly, in Crowder’s case, it might legitimately be true

[@ChristyAbbey]

And heading over to your own video about it would be a lovely thing for all!

[@saraht855]

Maybe Walsh just watched Tusk by Kevin Smith and just thought "this is a problem", or like, I am the Walrus by The Beatles. Honestly it's weird that "person turns into a walrus" media exists at all, let alone multiple times

[@saraa.4295]

I recently read a historical novel, where one of the main character was left handed. Every teacher tried to conform him, and being left handed was seen as shameful, defiant, twisted and wrong ..and it's true, we used to see it that way. Now, 200 years later, being left handed isn't a "thing" anymore..we instinctively adapt when needed, they adapt when needed, and the few studies made about them are truly intresting, but not judgemental.. I hope one day, being gay and or trans will be seen as being left handed today is. But i hope it will not take us 200 years to get there....

[@mievaselli7910]

@@Houseofpheromones0 Many trans people start feeling that their assigned at birth gender was wrong at a very young age. My brother did. He can't even remember thinking of himself as a girl, only a boy that people keep calling a girl for some reason. But he wanted to be a good kid and was led to believe that meant being a good girl. So he played the role of a girl and suffered disphoria for almost 20 years, before he came out last year. When he was aroud 5 he told us he was going to be a daddy when he grew up. We told him "No, you can't ever be a daddy, you're a little girl. You will become a big girl, then a woman and if you want a mommy." I regret this so much. In this occurence and many other, we made him feel like he had to keep pretending he was a girl. He never felt like he could be himself in his own home, with his own family. No child should have to go trough this. Trans kids exist, wether we aknowlege them or not, wether we inform them about transness or not. Refusing to inform them just lead to their suffering. Letting them know they don't have to keep pretending to be the wrong gender is not brainwashing.

[@CharlotteSWeb-oh7ou]

​@@Houseofpheromones0 So Matt is arguing against a nonsensical strawman of a moral panic. Got it.

[@haha-lj5sq]

@@mievaselli7910 I hope your sister eventually comes to her senses

[@AammaK]

Walsh is simply a horrible person. There's nothing in his personality or lack thereof I can say I like, and I wouldn't even if he didn't use the whole of his platform to harm others. He's mean, rude, ill mannered, cynical and bitter, and it's all on purpose. For some reason he thinks that's what makes him a good debater. It's pathetic and enraging.

[@ddjsoyenby]

honestly he's just a control freak who wants to control everything everyone does, thinks and feels all the time and throws a fit when he doesn't.

[@CirianAlani]

@@ddjsoyenby Or, in a word: fascist.

[@haha-lj5sq]

If he’s enraging you he’s accomplishing all of his one goal. You’re literally giving him the win by whining about it.

[@suzannax]

Does he honestly think anyone trans is going to turn around and say, you're absolutely right, because of that one comment I'm now not having gender dysphoria. 🤷‍♂️

[@mountainharpie]

🙏🏼sending you validation and love!!😁💚💚💚💚

[@suzannax]

@@mountainharpie 💜 Thanks

[@mountainharpie]

@@suzannax Absolutely. Sending you prayers for euphoria, balance, homeostasis... We're all in this together!!😁💚🌈🫂⭐⭐

[@saraa.4295]

No...he is hoping transpeople will fear the wrath of the likes like him so much, they all go back to the closet, so his right wing goons can continue to pretend we live in the 50s where white cis male were the only ones who made all the rules... But thanks to great creators like jessie, abigail and many more, couragious members and allies of the lgbtq's communies and their allies, they will NOT!!!

[@mountainharpie]

@@saraa.4295 Yes! Unity! Solidarity!!!

[@crazyrabidsquid5186]

I had a coworker who consumed Matt Walsh's content and prided himself on spreading bigotry towards trans and queer people. He was also a disgusting misogynist who groomed all the young teenage coworkers there and sexually assaulted me and my friend. I told him that I was dating a trans woman and that my sister was trans but he didn't care and I clearly didn't want to hear it and he spouted bullshit anyway. He got kicked out of the workplace thankfully.

[@ajaxwillis3962]

He literally Can't be a LGBT author. His Not a part of the LGBT community. Also is he the next Ben Shapiro? Since his already started Only rephraseing his stuff it won't be long till someone else takes his place. But, he is the next Ben, right?

[@nathanmauk9387]

Kind of rich for Matt Walsh, an actual sea lion, to opine about identifying as a walrus.

[@adeer87]

What did sea lions do to you??

[@brutusmagnuson315]

Also, don’t worry about being an “angry trans woman.” You are one of the the, if not the most, reasonable person I’ve ever come across on KZbin. This is why I will do whatever I can to support you and your channel. Keep being you. I know the things you go through is hard on your mental health, but remember that you have a passionate fan base for support and we have you. 🤜🤛

[@mountainharpie]

I fully agree!!!

[@nukiradio]

So what we if trans women get "angry"? Anger is an emotion the entire right wing is made of

[@ddjsoyenby]

honestly tr@ns people should be angry anger is a rational response to people treating you sh1tty.

[@coreyhonkonen7670]

It's OK to not be able to give someone the benefit of the doubt when they've proven so entirely they are not acting in good faith. I applaud your ability to see the best in people, I am frequently in awe of how much benefit of doubt you manage to provide to people who are actively hurting you and so many others. I can't speak for anyone else, but for me, seeing you reach a breaking point is a testament not to you in any way, but to the depths to which some bad actors will stoop. We love you, Jessie, keep using your voice to better the world.

[@sjain8111]

💛

[@OllamhDrab]

At this point, 'If there's doubt, there is no doubt.'

[@whysocurious7366]

True, Matt Walsh is clearly dishonest/ evil, imho.

[@plamenasiniye]

This is incredibly off-topic, but are you Finnish American/of Finnish descent? I don't mean to pry into your personal info, but your surname is Finnish, lol.

[@coreyhonkonen7670]

@@plamenasiniye I am of Finnish descent, yes. My grandfather was full blooded Finn, and according to my ancestrydotcom results, I'm 29% Finn myself

[@silversam]

Soon as I saw the title it was like "Oh this one's gonna be different. Jessie always takes great pains to be fair..." And you know what? You've been as fair with Walsh as he deserves. It must be exhausting having to deal with these guys. As unfair as it is that somebody has to do this, you're really good at it.

[@phantomstarsx9343]

I took awhile to think about whether not I wanted to make this comment but for the sake of solidarity, I want to. I'm a cis woman. I grew up with stories from my mother and great grandmother, recounted the historical horrors that make me glad I'm alive to day, and gives me hope for the future, that things will continue to get better. But I want to say to any trans woman who end up being harassed by other women, congratulations, you are a woman. Progress is not gendered, and I was surprised to hear from my great grandmother and my mother that basic womans rights, such as voting, having an opinion other then your husbands, being allowed to not have a husband, faced critique from women and men alike. And while arguments could be made for why that is, it was more startling to hear women shouldnt vote or have a life outside their family basically, then from a man. People like TERFs have always existed, but now that it's generally accepted for women to be... individuals, ya know, only certain women of course according to them, this kind of thing has unfortunately always existed whenever rights for anyone comes up. Theres always gonna be people that you would think would understand the struggle, but don't want the change. Hell for a Cis vs Cis example, look at Girl Defined. As far as they're concerned the world would be better off without someone like me.... without someone like you I'm sure as well. And that's what gets me. I'm cis. I'm relatively lucky. When someone talks down to me or is straight up sexist I can know it's either coming from a place of polite ignorance that I can maybe address on the spot, or if not, I'll at least be backed by general opinion. Trans women in the USA are experiencing the same brutish outdated behavior that for me, in most circles, wouldnt be accepted. Outdated already in feeling and all too familiar. I often find people using language similar to what it was just a few generations ago for cis woman, unapologetically sexist and insulting.... and in some cases, dangerous. Threats, violence, the same ones women have faced for generations continues. It saddens me. It disgusts me. History indeed repeats itself but that comes with a glimmer of hope. It took a long time for woman to get where we are today. But it happened. Few still disagree though it feels like many, but time marches on. I just hope some day when I'm old and boring a bunch of 4th graders that I can tell them the horrors and shocking stories that *USED* to afflict people that seem unbelievable and gross to them, that maybe they will appreciate their time as much as I do mine, though it's hard to think things will get better, so much is wrong these days... but still I hope to witness progress celebrating quietly as people who harass, threaten, and dismiss those who are different due to circumstances beyond their control, slowly fade from echos. And that hope extends not only to trans women, but trans men, gays, lesbians, every member of the LGBTQ+ that some day, people will be shocked and appalled by your stories as well, and what you had to endure to get where you are like so many already have.

[@DetectiveDespair]

This is such a respectful and well thought out comment, I think it was good to post it. Have a like, I hope more people see this : )

[@phantomstarsx9343]

@@DetectiveDespair aww thank you!

[@mountainharpie]

I also really appreciate the time and thought you put into this comment. It means a lot🙏🏼💜🌼🌟🌟🌟

[@electronics-girl]

Your solidarity and your empathy mean so much to me!

[@llGemini19]

No, no. I think I get it when he said that saying a person who is sitting is actually running, and that being an untruth. He's saying that it's the same thing as saying Matt Walsh is intelligent. See? It's an untruth!!

[@navygraym]

I can't wait to watch this and get angry!! My one wish is that people stop attacking/vilifying trans people; I think most trans-individuals/gender-expansive individuals just want to be able to exist and live our lives.

[@nicholashoward971]

Conservatives: Did you ask our permission? Trans and their supporters: no and we don't need your permission cryservatives.

[@OllamhDrab]

Don't bother. There won't be anything new.

[@geekazodium]

Mmmhh yes I'm "definitely" going to ask for permission to exist from cuckservitives.

[@jacksnow54104]

Girl you are beautiful and agreed on the statement of that transphobes are void of creativity.

[@cakecinema9385]

When you make fear and hate your god, creating new things becomes almost impossible.

[@haha-lj5sq]

99% of all artists in history agreed with the idea men are men and women are women and it can’t be changed. I guess Picasso, Beethoven, Mozart, Van Gogh are all uncreative huh?

[@BobbiCodes]

"Conservatives aren't funny." Matt Walsh: "Hold my cough syrup"...

[@FatherIimaginedyoutaller]

I don't think you're the "angry trans woman" steryotype but like even if you were, you shouldn't have to apologize for ir. Fitting a steryotype isn't a crime.But anyways let's get to the meat of the video. The Troll: the thing about making the other side look bad is interesting because that seems to be the argument that an abusive parent would do, like you tell them "You need to treat me with respect" and they answer "Oh so you want me to kiss the floor you walk on, it that what you're saying?" idk if that makes much sense but it's just the energry I get. Like I don't think I'm crazy for pointing out that the Venn Diagram of Conservative Rethoric and Abusive Parent tatcis is a circle. The Viral: I don't have a lot to say about this point except that the media is very choosy about who the choose to platform. Like recently I wrote an article about Damian Wayne's (The fifth of Batman's Robins) etnincity and how a lot of the hate directed towrds him might be raced-based and on the same day, Medium (the platform where I posted it) recommended me an article from a transphobic guy who was imposing their harfuls views on their audience. This also ties into the book segment. The book: Yikes! Holy shit. I'm having South Park flashbacks dolphin surgery. I wouldn't be surprised if he got it from there. Anyways but the point that you bring from the book not being from children but being from the parents it's interesting too because I think that fearmongering it's quite literally the point of transphobia. Like not to be literal with the word "phobia" but I think that fear it's the point of everything, they feel fear so we should also be afraid. The grift: I don't have thoughts on this, but I genuinely can't wait for your video on Cancel Culture (I have my whole opinion on the whole thing but that's neither here nor there) Thanks for making thie video Jessie, you always get me thinking about stuff. It's like excersise but for my brain.

[@OllamhDrab]

These Christian RIghties would and do scream 'We're being oppressed for being Christians' if we flung Danish and donuts back in response to their bricks and baseball bats. And frankly, that's why they want to divide the rest of us queers against trans people. It's for the same show where they feel dominant if they can mess up the country and claim to be martyrs if they can't blow snot on children in a pandemic.

[@user-uu2cj9ct3j]

@ OllamhDrab Tell me about it. My city was trying to pass an ordinance that would ban conversion therapy on minors, particularly from unlicensed counselors. One of the wealthier local churches here made a whole movement out of it, saying this was about religious oppression… because apparently it is oppressive for them to not be able to tell people (and young folks) how to live their lives and who they can love and/or have sex with. The language in the ordinance did not condemn discussions about homosexuality and what the Bible has to say about it, but the church pastor claimed it was an attack on “free speech”. I wrote several letters to my the city council about my support for the ordinance to protect minors from this kind of religious counseling (which I also was subjected to as a minor), and they received a lot of letters from others expressing their support, including some people who have suffered under this church’s “counseling” program involuntarily. But unfortunately, this church pulled out a fucking lawsuit on the city, and then they backed down. Classic case of “Christian persecution” complex, except oh wait, yeah, they were able to throw their weight around until they got their way. So persecuted!

[@Tues48]

Love more people out to debunk matt walsh.

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

Same here tho I wish they get alot of views

[@Tues48]

@@USSAnimeNCC- I try to share good videos like this when I can. I know I'm just one voice but I wanna help spread good messages

[@mountainharpie]

@@Tues48 I'm grateful for good messages too. Giving us the language to use!!!

[@austinluther5825]

Great video, as always. I honestly don't know why Matt Walsh and people who buy into his ridiculous notions think trans people want to "turn" kids trans. I'm a transgender man and I have 2 daughters. I'm not trying to force anything on them (except hygiene habits, because I don't care that you don't wanna IT'S BATH TIME). I just want them to know that they can be themselves and express themselves in whatever way is authentic to them. You'd think if any lefty-lib parent was going to want to "turn kids trans" it would be a transgender parent. Alas, but no.

[@jameswinkle8056]

I bet if your daughters wanted to become Catholic I'm sure you'd have something to say about that

[@electronics-girl]

It's also just not possible to "turn" kids trans, because gender identity is immutable. Either kids are already trans, or they are not trans. The only choice is whether to enable them to discover their identity, or force them to suppress it. I wish I had been able to discover my identity decades ago, instead of trying to convince myself that I wasn't really feeling what I was obviously feeling.

[@gentlerat]

I appreciate you going after modern Daily Wire type conservatives. Those channels from what I’ve gathered seem to have replaced the old-school frequently atheist and superficially sex-positive-ish (even incels are sex positive technically) anti-SJW channels that people like HBomberguy managed to ridicule so well with more straight laced religious conservatives as the top right wing voice on this platform seemingly in less than a decade. Not quite sure why that happened, although I have theories.

[@gentlerat]

I should explain there are a lot of very key differences. I can’t at all picture Dennis Prager complaining about video game characters not showing enough skin or even talking about video games period.

[@ddjsoyenby]

ikr.

[@TinaThePinkPhantom]

Wait, are you nonbinary now? Or was that a joke? I hope I’m not being rude - I just always thought you were a trans woman.

[@fairiesandlillies3471]

I am a trans non bionary man I go by he/him and thay/them but I dont mind People calling me she/her but I dont want to dress as a woman all the time but enyways I cant Tell you how she is non bionary but it might be something simular but she have to tell you her self but she has seid she is non bionary before

[@JessieGender1]

I’m a non-binary trans woman. Basically, specifically, I identify as a Demi girl. There’s a large discussion to be had on that, maybe I’ll make a video on it

[@515aleon]

I started thinking I was going to transition to man, but the longer I am at the less binary I feel. I also am more comfortable interacting with women (or trans people), so there's that too.

[@kinesin8221]

Matt Walsh is one of those conservative clowns that make my blood boil. I know that's what he wants, I know I shouldn't let him get to me that much, but I can't help it. He's just such a hateful ghoul who riles up his transphobic audience for a quick buck, not caring about anyone he hurts along the way. It's hard to to filter out the Kill Bill sirens that start blaring in my head whenever he starts talking, I don't know how you do it honestly. We stan a good faith librarian/professor

[@janetkizer5956]

Actually, we cannot tell 100% the gender of all the bones we dig up, even sometimes if we have the whole skeleton. Most skeletons can be determined, but not all. So, he's wrong there.

[@jrcrimson6818]

Honestly this situation made me think about the time when I finally realized how horrible transphobia is. In early 2014, I had broken my left hip and when I went to the hospital, I conversed with one of the nurses that helped me. She talked to me about her trans daughter and showed me a picture of her. Sweetest little thing. But then told me that she was getting bullied in school. When talking about this, I could see she was almost about to cry but composed herself because she knew she had to help me out. From this point forward, it occurred to me that trans people are human beings and deserve to be treated as such and not othered. I mean if I did or said something that would contribute to the bullying of that nurse's trans daughter I couldn't live with myself.

[@WillardStillesHere]

Watching videos about these kind of people is exhausting and frustrating. Can't imagine what it's like to make them. Thank you 🏳️‍⚧️

[@pichaelhunt5449]

I mean dude literally self identifies as a theocratic fascist in his Twitter bio if that doesn’t render his argument invalid ion know what does

[@YACHIHANNAH]

Is he going around demanding people call him a theoretic fascist?

[@scrumpledmilkskin]

Not librairian or professor, but instead, another amazing form of Dr. Who, that of which I want to travel through time with while preventing unimaginable horrors.

[@sanyammaybe]

I saw him on Samantha's video earlier and it fked me for that day and upcoming days , i was so frustrated and my anxiety was very severe. Samantha made such strong arguments against him , but the bs he spouted was highlighted in my brain and it was all i could focus on at that time. It took some days to settle in and i kept making counter arguments trying to defend my identity and it exhausted me a lot. but as time went by i kinda forgot about it and counter arguments started to make more sense and i could see clearly that he was spouting bs , even though i knew it all along. ( Earlier in my life , i used to think that stuff like this would make me crumble and quit but when it actually happened , i didnt think about stopping to live my life as i am , i was able to sustain my sense of self. ) This confidence is there in me because of Samantha , you and other awesome trans creators in the community. I feel so lucky to have all these people. I understand how exhausting it is to address a-holes like him , and also to come in good faith. I really appreciate you.

[@luminousghosts]

Where Ben Shabibo is charismatic and Crowder is….appealing to 12 year olds, so you can kind of get why people listen to them, Matt Walsh is just painfully unlikable, awkward and I wouldn‘t trust him to do a high school grade presentation in front of people. EDIT i forgot the major creep vibes he gives me..

[@kazikek2674]

Yeah, while I don't know a lot about Crowder, this is pretty much how I see things.

[@noalowenstein6741]

I know there isn't really any such thing as "bad art" because all art conveys a message no matter the skill applied but like. good lord the art in that Johnny the Walrus book is bad

[@lavernebennet7395]

I feel like he just got his niece to do it, or something. The art is amateurish, but it reminds me of how I used to draw as a teenager. Whoever the artist is, I think they have potential (provided they get over the transphobia).

[@Parker-nm9cg]

"virginian trapped in a tennessean's body" 😭 dude. dude have you heard.... of moving to another state and establishing residency if you wanna be a virginian you literally can

[@kingboobs20]

I guess he thinks that's scientifically impossible too.

[@mariah.2024]

There was a Netflix "Documentary" about several chronic patients where these ill people were lured in under false pretenses and lied about named Afflicted. The KZbinr "You look okay to me" made a video about it

[@bottombarrelbudgetfilms1854]

OH NO NOT AGAIN!! 😡 I mean hey, I'll watch it to support our trans queen, but I wish the GQP would shut up so she can just do Trek

[@mountainharpie]

Grateful for Jessie's sacrifice to help, push back, give us language and understanding.... and yeah, more trek!💜🖖🏻⭐⭐⭐

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

I wish the right stop with their bullshit and people stop buying into it

[@mountainharpie]

@@USSAnimeNCC- I wish that too. Being the change is what I can do though!!

[@joeblaster8770]

Years ago a young Matt Walsh was playing near a nuclear power plant when an unforseen error radio active gas was blown into Matt's face increasing the punchablebilty of Matt's face to super human levels making him THE MAN WITH THE INCREDIBLY PUNCHABLE FACE!

[@chocolizard678]

A point on the "trans is a mental illness" thing. I find that super dumb that some transphobic people think that's the "win argument" button. Like, let's pretend this argument is right. So what? If that was the case, then it would still be better to refer to trans people by their preferred pronouns and names because not doing so worsens trans people's mental health, and deliberately doing something you know will make someone's mental condition worse is widely considered a horrible thing to do. Also by this logic, trans people who want hrt and parents who allow their trans kids to take puberty blockers should be able to do so; after all, people with mental conditions still get to choose the treatments options that are right for them. No one is going to tell someone with depression "hey you can't take Prozac!" or "you have to do CBT because I think you should." I feel like the "trans people are mentally ill, and therefore I don't need to respect their needs" argument is the most "tell me you are ableist without telling me you are ableist" thing out there. It only makes sense if one implies someone being mentally ill inherently makes them so delusional that they can't understand their condition or their needs, and it is the place of "normal people" to decide that for them.

[@e.458]

There's many reasons why I don't like the term TERF, a big one being that I'm not willing to call someone like Abigail Shrier a feminist (with or without the TER).

[@Shield-Theyden]

Holy shit, Walsh thinks the Dr. Phil appearance made him look *good*?

[@kilischwarzefalke4200]

Well, he gained an additional 150K subscibers within 1 week.

[@Shield-Theyden]

@@kilischwarzefalke4200 Well that's depressing.

[@DrTssha]

Indeed, that Dr. Phil show is fertile ground for people like Walsh, who find an audience of tough love enthusiasts and old-fashioned values proponents. Good god, the troubled teen camps alone...John Oliver did a segment on it awhile back, and it's worth a watch...but it's not an easy watch... 😣

[@Fenikagegami]

Matt is a disgusting piece of crap. I’ve tried arguing against people like him and yeah it’s exhausting because they lack so much self-awareness. Live long and prosper, and Godspeed Jessie.

[@Hanaconda_Aquaponics]

Why are these conservatives who are supposedly into capitalism not openly supporting the trans community for their own gain? When someone transitions it potentially opens a new level of consumerism: a whole new wardrobe, makeup, different grooming products, prosthetics, more regular trips to the hair dressers, hair removal, protein shakes, gym membership, gym equipment, therapy, speech therapy, hrt, surgeries, admin fees to change documentation, public transport or car maintenence costs associated with travelling to numerous appointments, support groups and social events, and even being queerbaited into consuming media and products aimed at trans people.

[@Hanaconda_Aquaponics]

And if they're gender fluid, even better: they might even need two or more of everything!

[@technicolorbarf6734]

Shhhhh you're giving them ideas

[@purplepeopleeater6880]

I'm 52 years old and I remember when homosexuality was decriminalised here in South Australia in the 1970s. My Dad was upset about it and totally confused. He thought my male teachers would start wearing dresses and was convinced that would be traumatising for me. Now it's trans people who will be the downfall of our community. Nothing much has changed really

[@Dutch3DMaster]

That's the most unfortunate thing, that the people I see using those arguments are not realizing how it's literally the same arguments that once were used against the gay movement/community. With the even more unfortunate thing that there's now social media which makes things even worse...

[@roma8855]

Fear mongering things they don't understand and don't want to because they fear change, It's hard to change that in people, some people need logic, some loss, some simply are too stubborn.

[@yournewbestfriend5950]

Commented this on Samantha’s and Sam Collin’s video but I figured that it belongs here too so I’m copy and pasting it: As a young trans person I can’t stand people like Matt. They’re only making it worse for us. Not better. I understand being a little weary of someone under 18 transitioning at first. But if that’s the case you should at least try to educate yourself on the difference between medical and social transition, transgender puberty and such. I came out as trans when I was 10 years old. The sheer idea of growing up, developing breasts, getting a period, etc made me lose it. I remember my mother sitting me down and having a conversation with me that I was gonna most likely start puberty soon. I kept a neutral face around her but after the talk was done I ran into the bathroom and had a mental breakdown. I couldn’t stop crying and I impulsively cut my hair off. My parents heard me screaming and ran in to see what was wrong and I just collapsed in their arms. The conversation was hard and I could barely manage to express how I was feeling but eventually I told them. It took me a year and a half in total to get a diagnosis of GD and hormone blockers(keep in mind I’m in the UK so I’m honestly lucky it only took that long). I’ve been told that I’m just a confused girl, my parents have been told that they’re abusing me by colleagues and relatives. But I’m honestly glad that they took me seriously and didn’t just brush it off as a phase. Five years since that day and I’m now a proud and happy non-binary trans boy. Yeah, sometimes I still have hard times but if my parents hadn’t taken my pain seriously I might not be here today so I’m forever grateful.

[@Bojan_V]

💚🌈

[@yournewbestfriend5950]

@@Bojan_V thank you❤️

[@DrTssha]

The dialogue around trans people is awful these days...made worse by the fact that people talk _about_ us, but never _to_ us. Like we're not qualified to weigh in on a conversation that is entirely _about_ us. It's infantilizing, it's patronizing and it's wrong. But you are valid and I'm glad you got the health care you needed, even if delayed. I can only hope we hold the line against TERF rhetoric and can continue to provide such affirmative care to everyone who needs it. Much love and support from Canada.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

I never had a childhood narrative myself, and I constantly think about that whenever I hear other trans people figuring things out at a young age. At the time I was growing up, the information and language wasn't readily available, and schools certainly weren't going to teach it. I was diagnosed with depression early on, and was conditioned to only see myself through the lens of depression, and nothing more. So I wish there had been more visibility, representation, conversation, and above all education on LGBTQ issues when I was in middle and high school. Maybe then I wouldn't have gone through decades of my life with crippling depression defining me.

[@alisaurus4224]

💚💜💙

[@twistysunshine]

"You don't get your own adjectives" is still the funniest thing. I think we should collect all the most offensive adjectives he's used for others and make them his now, since he thinks that's how adjectives work. I'm gonna start with "shrill" like he called that tiktoker earlier

[@caraxkins]

matt: hell yeah this sick guitar riff really drives home the comedy point the human ear:☹️🤬rusty door jamb stop🤬☹️

[@ddjsoyenby]

ikr.

[@SirNerdLeroy]

I feel like Matt only has 4 kids so he can just say he has 4 kids and have credibility when it comes to talking about children. The things he mentions about his kids is either creepy or disconnected from what an actual participating parent would say about their children. I wonder if he's the type to brag about his kids good grades or extracurricular activities while also not helping them with homework or missing an event so he can post more anti trans kids videos.

[@JustJen1386]

It is technically true that if Matt calls a man a woman he is saying an untruth, but something tells me he doesn’t mean that in the literal sense 🤔 maybe it’s the bigotry wafting from the out of focus bookshelves

[@swishyclang9175]

I desperately want to give you the views you deserve but I can't watch this right now because transphobia. I'll say in advance, though, thank you for doing the dirty work so that we don't have to.

[@JessieGender1]

Take care of yourself first

[@Fairygoblet]

I'm in a wheelchair. I run while I sit all the time. It's called using a wheelchair at high speed and I honestly don't care if Walsh is too dumb to know what I mean if my words don't perfectly match.

[@DetectiveDespair]

I have to say it again, that non-binary beard person is so pretty 😭😭💕

[@DetectiveDespair]

@@slevinchannel7589 what does this have to do with my comment?

[@CirianAlani]

@@DetectiveDespair Spambots, fam, report and move on.

[@justingerald]

So it turns out (if you listen to Tuesday's episode of Behind the Bastards), Dewey was an exceptional creep (even for the early 20th century). Genuinely groundbreaking system though!

[@ruthspanos2532]

Groundbreaking for the time, but now very outdated in its categories, which are deeply centered in his personal perspective on what is important.

[@justingerald]

@@ruthspanos2532 yeah the classification of religion and races is.....

[@natsmith303]

Just the other day, a DoorDash order for a "Matt Walsh" came into the kitchen I work in. I have zero reason to believe he was *that* Matt Walsh, but I tell you, I have never been more tempted to spit in someone's food.

[@paulmuaddib451]

I love that the whole video of Walsh reading his "book" is just a bunch of kids laughing at him and his "book".

[@thatjillgirl]

You hear about Matt Walsh more if you ever run in evangelical circles (which I grew up in). He has rubbed me the wrong way since I was first exposed to him nearly 10 years ago, and he has only gotten worse as his platform has grown.

[@purplepeopleeater6880]

Matt Walsh, you don't get your own pronouns.. Also Matt: don't call me babe

[@EuphemiaRem]

@@dlg78 so when you're talking, you can call people whatever you like, but when someone else is talking they have to call you what YOU like? doesn't seem like the trans people are the hypocrites here.

[@purplepeopleeater6880]

@@dlg78 irony upon irony because you just proved my point. At least we got somethings in common

[@purplepeopleeater6880]

@@dlg78 are you a troll? No judgement just curious

[@shaunmccomish8572]

That Walrus book is soooo stupid. Babylon Bee level bullshit with all the insight and sophistication of a Internet troll spewing hate safely out of punching distance. The premise is basically a rip off of a sub par Kevin Smith horror comedy called 'Tusk'. At least Smith didn't make his film become a horrible allegory about transitioning like South Park at one of its many, many low points.

[@Lili-ib2rh]

He didn't make a children's book about transgender people, he made a children's book about Tusk (the body horror comedy)...Do you think Kevin Smith can sue him? Also the most famous LGBTQ+ author...Does Matt Walsh know that Oscard Wild, Virigina Woolf and Truman Capote probably have more fans in one neighborhood than he does on the entire planet.

[@TwoTonTaft]

Matt Walsh has no problem saying a strawman is a man, so why can't he say a trans man is one too?

[@TwoTonTaft]

It's also not fair to say Walsh is just a grifter trying to make a buck. He's legitimately trying to spread harm to the left in general, but especially to the LGBT community. The fact he can make money doing it only emboldens him

[@Overseer2579]

Because it falls outside of his extremely narrow view of how the world should be

[@somebodynowhere]

I've seen his community brigading some trans creators and allies and it rarely seems like they have any interest in reasonable discourse, but your general audience will be here to help in whatever capacity is needed.

[@mountainharpie]

Yes indeed. We're here😉💚🌈🫂⭐

[@kingboobs20]

" it rarely seems like they have any interest in reasonable discourse" Ya think?

[@mountainharpie]

@@kingboobs20 absolutely. Easy to become jaded... but once in a while, it does happen. Sometimes language barriers can make honest questions sound disrespectful and easy to ignore. But i have experienced taking that chance and ending up in actual dialog, or the best that dialog can look in a comments section... but yeah, I agree, for the most part discourse isn't a "sqad goal"... but again, there's a few out there who are in good faith, if given the opportunity💜🙏🏼

[@newquinn22]

The show matt walsh is under-study for would be called "Rent Seekers"

[@minnie7453]

AOC’s family absolutely should’ve taken that money from the *hilarious* trolls and just donated it to a trans charity.

[@IceNixie0102]

I will say, this is a "children's book" in the same way that Stephen Colbert released "Whose Boat is This Boat" and whatever that White House Bunny book was (both of which I own). The bunny book can actually be read as a story to kids, though they are both just cryptic adult books pretending to be fun for kids. Walsh didn't create this format.