Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed transgender ideology this week when asked about ongoing controversies involving the hot-button topic.

The governor, who criticized Bud Light’s decision to partner with transgender-identifying influencer Dylan Mulvaney, took a shot at the transgender movement as a whole when asked if it represented an “an existential threat to women.”

“A total fraud,” DeSantis said in a video posted to Twitter on Tuesday. “I mean you have a swimmer that competes on the men’s team for three years at Penn and then switches to the women’s team and then wins the 500-yard freestyle national championship for women. When you’re a mediocre male swimmer and now you win the women’s, and so you had a second-place finisher, she was actually from Sarasota, she should have been the national champion.”

DeSantis’ remarks were in reference to Lia Thomas, a male who claims to be female, who beat Emma Weyant, a woman, in the 2022 NCAA championships 500-yard race.

“I did a proclamation from our office saying she was the best woman swimmer in the 500 yard because she was,” DeSantis said. “That swimmer was not the best women’s 500-yard champion, okay? The number two [swimmer] was the best woman, so that’s just the bottom line.”

DeSantis, perhaps foreshadowing something that might be a key theme of a potential presidential campaign, said that the larger issue was the truth.

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“And so some of this is yes, it’s taking away opportunities, and athletics and some other stuff, and that’s really, really important,” the 44-year-old governor said. “But I think there’s also just the issue of, are we going to be a society based on truth? Or are we going to be a society based on deceit? And if you take a man and they dress up as a woman, and you tell me, I have to accept that they’re a woman, then you’re asking me to be complicit in a lie, and I just refuse to do that. So we’ve got to tell the truth. I think the truth will set you free.”

“If you take a man and they dress up as a woman and you tell me I have to accept that they’re a woman, then you're asking me to be complicit in a lie,” @RonDeSantisFL tells @bennyjohnson.

“I refuse to do that.”

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— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) April 18, 2023

Daily Wire host Matt Walsh broke his silence Wednesday after a hacker gained access to his Twitter account, disclosing that the hack was more comprehensive than people thought.

Many of Walsh’s followers noticed something was awry when his Twitter account started posting uncharacteristic messages. Although he has since regained access, Walsh said that his phone and private online files were also infiltrated by a stranger.

“My entire life laid bare,” Walsh said. “As expected, the Left and many in the media were eagerly cheering on this series of felonies that were committed against me and my family. Reporters took to Twitter to openly solicit the hacker to send the reporters stolen information from my phone, so they could use it to try to embarrass me. Prominent leftists and trans activists gloated, declaring that a criminal infringement on my privacy and safety is okay in this case, because they don’t like me.”

Walsh, speaking on the topic of transgenderism at the University of Iowa, also said that an “insider” helped the outsider gain access to Walsh’s information by switching Walsh’s phone number over to a sim card controlled by the hacker. But the Daily Wire firebrand had a message to those who took the hack as an opportunity to try and solicit his private information: “lawyer up.”

“What was motivating the insider to distribute my personal data to a hacker?” Walsh asked. “We can make some educated guesses, but we don’t know at this point. There is still a lot we don’t know about what happened — who did it? How? Why? But I’ll tell you, we are going to get answers to all of those questions. We’re getting them right now — and there are going to be consequences. … That includes the journalists who solicited stolen information from my phone.”

.@MattWalshBlog on being hacked:

"They're going to be severe consequences… that includes the journalists who solicited stolen information from my phone. I hope you can afford more expensive lawyers than I can because…lawyer up." pic.twitter.com/t2L43OhUcx

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) April 20, 2023

Hours before his speech at Iowa, Wired published an interview with someone purporting to be the person who accessed Walsh’s personal information. The hacker, identified as “Doomed,” told the outlet that he just wanted to stir up controversy and chaos on Twitter, and was “bored.”

Walsh also revealed that he and his family have been subjected to recent threats from radical leftists and trans activists. The conservative commentator said that one trans activist threatened online that he would kill Walsh, but when Walsh reported it to the local district attorney, the threat was dismissed as “harmless trolling.”

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“We have been doxxed so many times I’ve basically lost count at this point. We have been threatened by message, by email, by snail mail to our house. People have shown up to our house. We’ve been blackmailed,” Walsh said. “It got to the point where we need 24-hour armed security in our house. … Security is our only option because the system has no interest in prosecuting these people.”

.@MattWalshBlog to the woke Left:

"I have never been more motivated to oppose you…I truly see the fight against gender ideology as the last stand for western civilization. If the sane side loses this, it’s over. It's over after this…I’m staying put." pic.twitter.com/N8TWen1oIO

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) April 20, 2023