Far-Right Troll Tried to Dupe Trans People Into Joining His Anti-Trans Documentary

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Justin Baragona
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.@EliErlick exposed the plan by far-right podcaster Matt Walsh's production team to dupe dozens of trans people—including a 14-year-old kid—into participating in an anti-trans film, all while claiming they were from the "Gender Unity Project."

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Far-Right Troll Tried to Dupe Trans People Into Joining His Anti-Trans Documentary
The transphobic star of Ben Shapiro’s right-wing media empire tried to trick trans people, including a 14—until the deception was revealed this week.
12:58 PM · Feb 8, 2022

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A far-right podcaster working for The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro‘s right-wing outlet, has been attempting to dupe dozens of trans people and doctors into participating in an anti-trans documentary under false pretenses, a prominent trans activist revealed this week.

Matt Walsh, who has an extensive history of overtly bigoted rhetoric predating his work for Shapiro’s burgeoning media empire, has become a leading anti-trans voice in the conservative movement as of late. The one-time shock jock’s cartoonishly hateful remarks about the LGBTQ community has only increased his public profile and garnered him right-wing media stardom, including frequent appearances on Fox News.

Along the way, Walsh has continually upped his trollish antics. Late last year, for instance, his transphobic children’s book, titled Johnny the Walrus, was briefly the best-selling “LGBTQ” book on Amazon before the retailer recategorized it following public backlash. “So I’m an LGBT author, and I’m, you know, I think one of the leading LGBT voices in the country right now according to Amazon, and I embrace that,” Walsh gloated to Fox News last December.

Fresh off the mainstream attention he gained from a controversial appearance on Dr. Phil, Walsh apparently decided to up the ante yet again. While ripping a page from the Project Veritas playbook, he recently attempted to trick a number of trans people and medical professionals into volunteering for what now appears to be an anti-trans documentary.

Walsh’s deception was exposed, however, by one of the activists his team attempted to deceive.

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