Matt Walsh (born June 18, 1986) is an American right-wing political activist, author, podcaster, and columnist.
He is the host of The Matt Walsh Show podcast and is a columnist for the American conservative website The Daily Wire.
He has authored four books and starred in The Daily Wire online documentary film What Is a Woman?.
2010
In 2010, Walsh began his career as a talk radio host for two stations in Delaware, before moving to Kentucky and launching his own website in 2012.
2011
Walsh began his career as a talk radio co-host of The Matt and Crank Program at WZBH 93.5 FM in Georgetown, Delaware, from early 2010 to August 1, 2011, and then moved to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, with WGMD 92.7 FM later that month, where he worked for less than a year.
2012
In 2012, he moved to Lexington, Kentucky, joining NewsRadio 630 WLAP and launching a website, The Matt Walsh Blog, in which he discussed various issues from a conservative point of view.
2013
He left WLAP in Kentucky when his show was cancelled in December 2013 and joined Blaze Media in 2014.
Walsh announced in December 2013 that he was "leaving radio forever" to focus on blogging after his show was canceled.
2014
Walsh began working for conservative media outlet Blaze Media starting in October 2014.
2017
He joined The Daily Wire in 2017, and began hosting The Matt Walsh Show in 2018.
Walsh has appeared on several nationally syndicated publications and talk shows.
Walsh opposes transgender rights and has campaigned in opposition to groups providing or encouraging transgender health care, particularly for minors.
In 2022, Walsh released Johnny the Walrus, a children's book in which he compared being transgender to pretending to be a walrus, and What Is a Woman?, a documentary film about gender identity in the United States.
Walsh has campaigned against several hospitals, comparing the transgender healthcare they provide to child sexual abuse, genital mutilation, and rape.
He was also a contributor to HuffPost and began writing for The Daily Wire in October 2017.
He has appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight, The Ingraham Angle, Fox and Friends, Dr. Phil, as well as the podcast The Joe Rogan Experience.
2018
Walsh hosted The Matt Walsh Show on YouTube starting in April 2018 on weekdays; it is an hour in length.
According to Walsh, the show made $100,000 per month through advertisement revenue.
Walsh announced in April 2023 that the show was being moved to the Daily Wire website after his YouTube channel was demonetized for repeatedly misgendering transgender woman Dylan Mulvaney.
Walsh's work has been supported by J. K. Rowling, Elon Musk, and some Republican legislators.
Rowling argued that Walsh's work "exposed" the "incoherence of gender identity."
In 2023, Walsh starred in a Daily Wire comedy film, Lady Ballers, which debuted on December 1, 2023.
He portrayed the character of Kris Dilby, a woke beatnik.
On March 29, 2022, DW Books published Walsh's children's book Johnny the Walrus, which compares being trans to identifying as a walrus.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson called the book "hilarious".
Conservative news website TheBlaze called the book "an effort to push back against radical gender ideology which defies biological reality".
The satirist Andrew Doyle, writing in UnHerd, praised the book for mocking the "indoctrination of the young".
LGBTQ Nation denounced the book, calling it "anti-transgender" and a mockery of transgender youth, while PinkNews referred to it as "hateful" and "transphobic".
It was listed as the bestselling LGBT+ book on Amazon in December 2021 before Amazon recategorized it to Political and Social Commentary.
Walsh called the recategorization "an unconscionable attack on gay rights and a horrific example of homophobia and gay erasure".
Target removed the book from its online bookstore on the same day.
Walsh's online documentary film What Is a Woman?, released by The Daily Wire on June 1, 2022, at the beginning of Pride Month, featured Walsh asking the question "what is a woman?"
to various people, and arguing for his own views.
Walsh had asked the same question in other appearances, including a Dr. Phil show on January 19, 2022, with transgender and non-binary people.
On June 14, Walsh published a book based on the documentary, entitled What Is a Woman?: One Man's Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation through DW Books.
The documentary received a divided reception from critics and political commentators.
Detractors, such as AJ Erkert of Science-Based Medicine and Erin Rook of LGBTQ Nation, denounced the film as "propaganda", "transphobic lies", and "science denying".
Erkert compared the documentary to the antiscience films Vaxxed and Expelled.
Conservative commentators, such as Rich Lowry and Rod Dreher, praised the film as "mesmerizing" and "excellent".
Dimitrije Vojnov of Radio Television of Serbia said that Walsh could become the American right's equivalent of Michael Moore, and just as biased.
