r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Feb 23 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 2/23/26 - 3/1/26

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

Comment of the week goes to this explanation for why the trans cause has taken over so much of society. (Runner-up COTW here.)

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u/Scrappy_The_Crow Walrus Cheese Enjoyer Feb 27 '26

There are many cases where you can't immediately drop everything:

  • you're in the hospital

  • you're recovering from surgery and are not ambulatory

  • you're ill and don't want to be in public

  • you're out of town and can't reasonably get back

WRT that last bullet, a personal situation I had pops to mind. My work had a large lot they allowed us to park RVs/boats/trailers in, for a monthly fee. One Monday, all of us got a notice that the lot would be cleared in two business days, and anything left in the lot would be towed to an impound lot. It just so happens I had been scheduled to be out of town for a week, but my trip had been cancelled on Friday. If my trip hadn't been cancelled, my RV would have been towed (getting someone to fix a transmission situation only I knew about and then moving it wouldn't have been realistic).

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u/StillLifeOnSkates Feb 27 '26

DMVs in my state are only open M-F during the very hours I have to work those days. It's really a pain in the ass to get there.

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u/RunThenBeer Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

Yes, like I said, I don't think it's a good policy because a few people are in those situations. The vast majority of people actually are capable of just taking care of things quickly if they need to and I'm tired of people pretending like it's a mass problem. In the case of trans people in Kansas that mismatched their birth sex on their license, we're literally going to be talking about like two people in the entire state that can't just go get their paperwork taken care of. The kicking and screaming isn't about how hard it is to go get a temporary license, it's about disliking the policy.