Episode 149: The NYT Restarts Trans Kids Discourse And A Dimes Square Movie Gets Canceled For Transphobia And Matt Gaetz Is G**

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In this week’s record-shattering episode of Blocked & Reported:

• The epidemic of white women transforming into Native Americans continues

• Katie: “I love Chris Rufo. I want to hug and kiss him”

• Recurring COVID whistleblower/serial fabulist tries to make Matt Gaetz into Matt G**tz

• Chuck Tingle, inexplicably, comes up somehow???

• NYT (re)starts the discourse on trans children in school

• Drama at The Music Box when an indie film gets canceled

• The rat king of circlejerks takes place in Dimes Square

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Return of the Grifter

Rebekah Jones exposes Matt Gaetz

Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah

!!!BREAKING!!! Matt Gaetz is believed to be having an affair with his press secretary, Joel Valdez, according to three independent sources. Gaetz' office and his wife have not responded to requests for comment. This is not Gaetz' first affair, nor is it his first w/a man.

The NYT’s “When Students Change Gender Identity, and Parents Don’t Know”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/us/gender-identity-students-parents.html

The Road to Terfdom

https://lux-magazine.com/article/the-road-to-terfdom/

A representative tweet from close personal friend of the podcast Jeet Heer

https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1617208577919254529

Jesse claps back

On Teachers Letting Kids Transition Gender While Keeping It A Secret From Their Parents

NYT On Trans Youth

NYT Opinion: “Trans Kids Deserve Private Lives, Too”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/opinion/trans-kids-privacy-gender-identity.html

An Instagram post from Chase Strangio

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn0PIPkASUh/

Betsey Brown

What is Dimes Square?

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/dimes-square

Peter Thiel’s “anti-woke” film festival

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/peter-thiel-anti-woke-film-festival-trevor-bazile

“This movie is transphobic and reeks of violence. I pulled my film from fests that were playing it.”

Jane Schoenbrun @janeschoenbrun

This movie is transphobic and reeks of violence. I pulled my film from fests that were playing it. Hey @musicboxtheatre this is a bad look :-(

Jack 📉 is in Chicago 🎃🎃🎃 @kryandwhisper

to the programming team at @musicboxtheatre https://t.co/6h8xAk3dEU

A privated twitter account says something about the movie, IDK

https://twitter.com/kryandwhisper/status/1612870613047119875?

Crumplar’s scathing review of the film

Crumps Meets Betsey Brown and the Ion Pack

The Red-Pill Pusher

My Own Dimes Square Fascist Humiliation Ritual

Air Mail’s Downtown Set

https://airmail.news/issues/2022-11-19/the-downtown-set

*I never bothered to check if this true but it sounds convincing, and that’s what matters.

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