Director Greta Gerwig’s highly anticipated Barbie arrives in theaters this week, and while reviews from mainstream critics have been mostly positive, conservatives are enraged that the movie wasn’t transphobic enough.

...A July 10 post on conservative Christian film site Movieguide warns parents not to take their daughters to see the film. The post, which is credited to the site’s staff and notes that a “full review” of Barbie will be available soon, accuses the filmmakers of forgetting their “core audience of families and children while catering to nostalgic adults and pushing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender character stories.” It is unclear whether the post’s authors have actually seen Barbie.

In his mostly incoherent review for conservative outlet National Review, Armond White criticized Gerwig’s “obnoxious social messaging.” While White did not directly address any LGBTQ+ themes, characters, or performers in the film, he mainly took issue with the film’s “hipsterism,” arguing that Gerwig should have focused on “the special feeling that females might know — the fulfilling, personal escape into free femininity, childbearing, family, homemaking, and romance that should be the essence of a Barbie movie.” Incredibly, he also described Rae and co-star America Ferrera as “diversity hires.”

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and wife Ginger weighed in on the film after attending a special screening on Monday. Among Ginger’s complaints about the film were its failure to address “faith or family” and “Disappointingly low T from Ken.” Meanwhile, her congressmember husband responded to a tweet criticizing him for attending the screening of a “movie where ‘Doctor Barbie’ is played by a Trans actor.”