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Blocked and Reported

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

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

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

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

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/

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

A privated twitter account says something about the movie, IDK

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

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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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do it.

0:10.0

Katie Herzog, how's it going?

0:12.0

Good, Jesse.

0:13.0

Did you notice that we got an email recently from ancestry.com?

0:16.2

I did.

0:17.2

Yeah, I was curious what that was about.

0:19.0

So remember our, I think this was on our last episode.

0:22.8

We talked about the pretendian in Wisconsin, the white woman who, uh, what was her name?

0:28.4

Kayla Claire?

0:29.4

You want to give a little, a little refresher on that?

0:31.7

Yeah, she was a, um, local Native American artist and activist until it turned out she

0:37.8

wasn't.

0:38.8

It had been spending a lot of time in a tanning booth.

0:40.5

Okay, so it's pretty soon after we recorded that, that episode.

0:43.8

I got on Facebook and there was a friend of mine.

0:45.7

I hadn't seen a long time and I just wanted to check in to see how she was doing.

0:49.2

So I went and looked her up on Facebook and I realized we weren't Facebook friends anymore.

0:53.2

She'd unfriended me.

0:55.0

She had also, I realized, changed her name from something very, I would say, I'm not sure

0:59.0

I would say white sounding to something, uh, a little bit more ethically ambiguous.

1:03.6

Oh my God.

1:05.0

Also, changed her pronouns.

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