So without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, I bring to you Matt Walsh. Thank you.

Thank you.

Don't do that.

Don't give me a standing ovation before I say anything.

You set the bar way too high. I can only disappoint you now.

Thank you all for being here. Thank you to the American

Principles Project for inviting me to be a part of this very special night. The timing of this

event is of course quite fortuitous. Just yesterday I was at the rally outside the Supreme

Court as the court heard arguments in a case that stems from the law we passed in Tennessee,

banning quote unquote gender transitions for minors.

And this fits well with the subject that I was asked to speak about tonight, which is the fight to protect children in our culture.

How do we protect children in this culture?

As far as I see it, to protect our kids, we first have to identify the threats.

What are the threats we're dealing with?

And I'd like to speak about tonight the two great threats, or two of the greatest, that

children face.

These are also the two issues that I have personally focused on the most and devoted much of my life to.

Just as a side note, you know, I recently released a film called Am I Racist?

That is, thank you.

It wasn't just me fishing for applause, a little bit it was, but I haven't gotten used to the fact that, you know, that movie was a comedy, and a lot of people discover me for the first time from that movie, and so they know me for comedy, and they expect everything I do now to be riotously funny. And so I was talking to a guy at the meet and greet and he said, big fan, love the movie,

can't wait for the speech, I know it's going to be hilarious.

And I'm looking down to my speech now, I'm like, that guy is going to be so disappointed.

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