Daily Wire's Matt Walsh defends his rhetoric leading to potential violence against trans people: “It's a risk worth taking”
Walsh: “If speaking the truth puts your life at risk I'll still speak it. It's a risk worth taking.”
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From the speech by Matt Walsh for Young America's Foundation at the University of Kentucky on October 17, 2023
MATT WALSH (DAILY WIRE): I care because the truth matters. Now, why do I care about gender ideology? I care because it harms children. I care because of what it does to women and their identities being appropriated and degraded by crossdressing men with fetishes. And of course, all of that is, is a reason enough to care. But, but even before that I care because the truth matters and you are saying things that are not true and I'm not gonna just let you say things that aren't true without, without disputing it. The truth matters more than anything. It matters more than your ideology. It matters more than your preferences. It matters more than your feelings or your self-identification or your gender identity or your sexual orientation.
The truth matters more than anything — it matters more than your life and more than mine. You know, trans activists say that if you talk about this issue -- that when I talk about this issue — that I'm putting their lives at risk somehow, and if that's true, well, you know what, its a risk worth taking. If speaking the truth puts your life at risk I'll still speak it. It's a risk worth taking. If speaking the truth puts my life at risk, I'll still speak it.