History Literature / JohnnyTheWalrus

* {{Allegory}}: The book is a very blatant one of gender transition, with people calling Matt's mother "phobic" if she doesn't let her child transition to a walrus. The medical doctor represents the medical community as a whole, which supports transition.

* DisappearedDad: Johnny's mother appears to be his only parent, his father is nowhere to be seen.

* BrokenAesop: Walsh's argument is supposed to be that children aren't mature enough to choose their own gender, but Johnny isn't the one who asks to be a walrus or genuinely believes himself to be one. In fact, he loudly complains about the transition process, something which would cause any trans healthcare specialist to immediately discontinue treatment. Furthermore, Johnny's in grade school, and while some trans kids do come out at a young age and start going by a new name and pronouns and might go on puberty blockers, they certainly aren't getting ''surgery''. In general, doctors don't approve of gender reassignment surgery or even hormones until the patient is a legal adult and can thus make a medically informed decision. None of this particularly matters in terms of the narrative the book is trying to convey (specifically the idea that being trans is itself the problem).

* StrawmanU: The Doctor got a "Woke Doctor" degree from the "University of Doctoring".

* WorldGoneMad: This is a world where doctors are trained to give surgeries to turn people into walruses, a procedure which activists support performing on minors.

* PropagandaPiece: This book is an introduction to transphobic rhetoric for kids, from a political pundit who is known for rallying against LGBT civil rights.

* StrawmanU: The Doctor got a "Woke Doctor" degree from the "University of Doctoring". This aligns with Walsh's belief that any sort of higher education amounts to liberal brainwashing.

* WorldGoneMad: This is a world where doctors are trained to give surgeries to turn people into walruses, a procedure which activists support performing on minors without their consent. The allegory being used suggests that to the author, a world in which trans people have rights is itself a World Gone Mad.

** Johnny is not the one who wants to start walrus treatment, and is in fact extremely vocal about ''not'' wanting to do it from the get go. No trans healthcare is going to force a kid to start treatment when they are literally explicitly stating, from the very beginning, that they do not want to do it.
** Johnny goes on "wormones". Judging by how old he seems to be, Johnny would actually be much too young to even potentially start hormones, or even puberty blockers.

* ScareCampaign: The book makes a distinct attempt to depict gender affirming treatment as scary and nonconsensual. One can draw parallels between the “Woke Doctor” trying to amputate Johnny’s legs to the canard of referring to GRS as “mutilation”.

* StrawmanU: The Doctor got a "Woke Doctor" degree from the "University of Doctoring". This aligns with Walsh’s belief that any sort of higher education amounts to liberal brainwashing.
* ScareEmStraight: [[LiteralMetaphor Or “Scare ‘em Cisgender”, anyway.]]

* WorldGoneMad: This is a world where doctors are trained to give surgeries to turn people into walruses, and is overall supported by activists. The allegory being used suggests that a world in which trans people have rights is itself a BizarroWorld.

* BrokenAesop: Walsh's argument is supposed to be that children aren't mature enough to choose their own gender, but Johnny isn't the one who asks to be a walrus or genuinely believes himself to be one. In fact, he loudly complains about the transition process, something which would cause any trans healthcare specialist to immediately discontinue treatment. This doesn’t particularly matter in terms of the narrative the book is trying to convey (specifically the idea that being trans is itself the problem).

''Johnny the Walrus'' is a [[PictureBooks Picture Book]] written by conservative political commentator and self-proclaimed theocratic fascist Matt Walsh, and illustrated by K. Reese.

''Johnny the Walrus'' is a [[PictureBooks Picture Book]] written by conservative political commentator Matt Walsh and illustrated by K. Reese.

* ArtisitcLicenseMedicine:
** Johnny is not the one who wants to start walrus treatment, and is in fact extremely vocal about ''not'' wanting to do it from the get go. No trans healthcare is going to force a kid to start treatment when they are literally explicitly stating they do not want to do it.

''Johnny the Walrus'' is a work of transphobic propaganda in the form of a [[PictureBooks Picture Book]] written by conservative political commentator and self-avowed “theocratic fascist” Matt Walsh and illustrated by K. Reese.

The story is a not-so-subtle allegory for gender transition written by someone who both does not understand and staunchly opposes such treatment, as Matt Walsh claims it [[https://archive.ph/mi8jc should be banned for everyone of all ages]]. The book was written in response to progressive children's books Walsh disliked like ''C is for Consent'' and ''The [=GayBCs=]''.

** The book's intended lesson is "Don't force transgenderism on children who are too young to understand what it is and haven't really figured themselves out yet, and just let them be kids in their own way.".

* PropagandaPiece: This book is essentially an introduction to transphobic rhetoric for kids, from a political pundit who is known for rallying against LGBT civil rights.

* StrawmanU: The Doctor got a "Woke Doctor" degree from the "University of Doctoring".

''Johnny the Walrus'' is a work of transphobic propaganda in the form of a [[PictureBooks Picture Book]] written by conservative political commentator Matt Walsh and illustrated by K. Reese.

''Johnny the Walrus'' is a work of anti-trans rights propaganda in the form of a [[PictureBooks Picture Book]] written by conservative political commentator Matt Walsh and illustrated by K. Reese.

The story is a not-so-subtle allegory for gender transition written by someone who opposes such treatment, as Matt Walsh claims it [[https://archive.ph/mi8jc should be banned for everyone of all ages]]. The book was written in response to progressive children's books Walsh disliked like ''C is for Consent'' and ''The [=GayBCs=]''.

''Johnny the Walrus'' is a [[PictureBooks Picture Book]] written by conservative political commentator Matt Walsh and illustrated by K. Reese.