
Episode 149: The NYT Restarts Trans Kids Discourse And A Dimes Square Movie Gets Canceled For Transphobia And Matt Gaetz Is G**
And another white woman spontaneously turns into a native American and Katie wants to kiss Chris Rufo and Chuck Tingle gets brought up... and more on the pod's longest episode to date*
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
Return of the Grifter
Rebekah Jones exposes Matt Gaetz

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


A privated twitter account says something about the movie, IDK
https://twitter.com/kryandwhisper/status/1612870613047119875?
Crumplar’s scathing review of the film
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.
Images courtesy of Getty.
Episode 149: The NYT Restarts Trans Kids Discourse And A Dimes Square Movie Gets Canceled For Transphobia And Matt Gaetz Is G**
One of the things that drives me mad about the trans/school opinion writing is that very little of it bothers to examine what schools supporting social transition means for the other students. There is significant pressure to accommodate trans students well beyond name & pronoun changes. Making toilet and changing facilities gender neutral, deciding what sports team trans students should play on, how sleeping arrangements should be decided for school trips... all of these things are affecting the whole student body, NOT just the trans student. We see this again and again in this discourse, to the point that we are regularly told to just switch our brains off and “be kind” because the issue “doesn’t affect us.” But it does, and the persistent blind spot about this only feeds into parents’ distrust of where the process is going.
Elephant in the room: should schools tell parents when their kids pretend to be Native American?