Chambana Sun

The Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) hosted conservative firebrand Matt Walsh in early October to give a lecture on his recently released documentary "What is a Woman?"

In "What is a Woman?" Walsh travels the country and world asking people a simple question: What is a woman? He posed this question to left-wing Women’s March attendees, pediatricians, gender studies professors and politicians. No one could answer the question.

However, Walsh did travel to Kenya to meet with the Maasai Tribe where he got a clear answer right away.

The event started with a screening of the documentary in which the 150-seat room where it was being aired was filled to capacity. The screening of the documentary was followed by a live lecture and Q&A session with Walsh. A livestream of the lecture can be found here.

“We are living through a period of mass psychosis that is very truly unprecedented in human civilization. It seems as though all at once, millions of our countrymen woke up one day having forgot some of the most basic facts about reality, like this giant epidemic of the weirdest sort of amnesia,” Walsh declared during the lecture.

Walsh said gender ideology conners have quickly spread throughout the country.

“Lying at the heart of this intellectual chaos is the confusion, or apparent confusion anyway, over human biology. A mental disease called gender ideology has grabbed hold of a large swath of the American public and has totally taken over all of our most powerful institutions,” he said. “The disciples of the cult have been convinced, or pretend to be convinced, that men are women and women are men, that men can have babies and women can have penises, that a woman can impreginate a man who can then give birth to and breast feed a child, and of course, the child has no sex at all.”

Walsh noted biological facts overcome other concerns.

“The most basic facts of biology and of reality, facts which all people everywhere across the world for thousands and thousands of years all recognized innately, somehow that is no longer valid. It's total madness, and it is a madness that has infected our society and is now threatening to tear it apart at the seams,” he said.

According to Bailey Parks-Moore, the chair of the UIUC YAF chapter, “There were 315 people in the room with Walsh, 250 people in a streaming room watching Walsh’s lecture and we unfortunately had to turn away 400-500 people.”

She went on to say, “We were thrilled with the way that the event went because we allowed not only conservative students to have a voice on campus and to talk about their beliefs, but to also to give liberal students a platform and the opportunity to engage in conversation and debate with Walsh and students in YAF.”

The event went smoothly despite leftist students trying to obstruct the event, both before and during it. Prior to the event, YAF students put up flyers around campus to advertise the event. However, not everyone was happy with the flyers, and two leftist students were caught on video ripping down signs for the event saying, “He’s a f–ing right-winger. He wants to genocide trans people.”

During the event, protesters lined the hallway outside the auditorium and tried to disrupt the lecture. At one point they sang "Bohemian Rhapsody," which garnered a personal reaction from Walsh on his YouTube channel the next day. Walsh was less than impressed with their performance. In the same video, Walsh noted that a protester outside the auditorium told a reporter, “[Walsh] being here is disruptive to my being as a whole.” Walsh said that many conservatives make fun of the left for saying things like this, but this is actually what they believe.

When it was time for Walsh to leave the auditorium, protesters swarmed Walsh’s car and cursed him out. Despite leftist students trying to disrupt the event at every turn, this was a major success for the UIUC YAF chapter.