Anti-LGBTQ+ troll Matt Walsh says the lack of gay babies is proof you can’t be born gay

Anti-LGBTQ+ activist and Daily Wire host Matt Walsh recently went on a rant about how sexuality cannot possibly be innate since there are no gay babies.

His argument came as he was defending conversion therapy and stating that anyone who feels tortured by being gay and wants to be straight should have the freedom to seek that help.

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“In almost every case, when we hear about so-called conversion therapy, it is a case where somebody with a same-sex attraction goes to a therapist or to a counselor to help them overcome that attraction,” Walsh said. “Like, they’re looking for counseling, for therapy to help them overcome this attraction that is troubling them and that they don’t want… and why shouldn’t people have the right to seek that kind of help if they want it?… If someone desires to be straight, then why shouldn’t we affirm that desire? Why shouldn’t they receive affirmative care in that context?”

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Walsh’s choice of words was a clear attempt to “best” progressives by equating conversion therapy with gender-affirming care. What he failed to acknowledge was most legislation banning conversion therapy focuses on banning it for LGBTQ+ youth, who are often forced to endure it with no choice in the matter.

Additionally, those who do choose to engage in this so-called therapy as adults are often the victims of bigotry and discrimination that make them feel like they must “fix” their sexuality in order to survive. A 2013 survey found that 84% of former conversion therapy patients said they felt lasting shame and emotional harm as a result of undergoing the pseudoscientific practice.

Walsh then criticized state legislators for trying to come between therapists and their clients, despite being okay with lawmakers coming between a doctor and a patient by supporting gender-affirming care bans.

However, he didn’t mention that the actual methods of ex-gay therapy are fraudulent. They include telling people not to masturbate, rigorous exercise, Bible study, “covert aversion” (making LGBTQ+ identity seem dangerous, unhealthy, and repulsive), and “reframing desire” onto “heterosexual surrogates” (re-directing sexual desire onto opposite-sex partners). Other methods include not shaking hands with anyone of the same sex and not listening to music.

Walsh then decried the idea that sexual orientation is “immutable and unchangeable.” He asserted that trauma, abuse, and exposure to pornography at a young age are some of the many things that could affect someone’s sexual orientation.

“There is no gay gene no matter how hard they look for one,” he said. “And the idea that people are born gay has always been incoherent because, you know, if people are born gay – like, born gay. You’re gay from birth, right? That’s what that would mean. And then that means that there are what, homosexual infants out there? Again, no sane person thinks that. So there’s no reason why a person can’t seek and receive successful counseling to overcome same-sex attraction.”

He also called those on the left “shameless, soulless, hypocritical con artists.”

“Nothing they say means anything,” he said.

He’s also incorrect about the genetic basis for homosexuality. In 2017, medical doctor James O’Keefe pointed out that epigenetics and evolutionary biology may contribute to the development of homosexuality in people from a very young age.

Walsh’s attacks on LGBTQ+ humanity are legion, from accusing LGBTQ+ people of being responsible for their own murders at mass shootings, to organizing protests with people demanding “Doctors who mutilate children should be killed.”