(Fox News) A troubling societal issue called “transableism” is attracting attention these days.
Transableism is a newer term for BIID, or “Body Integrity Identity Disorder,” in which a person actually “identifies” as handicapped.
BIID has been relabeled to transableism to align with today’s trans community, according to some.
The point of “changing the identifier” from a psychiatric condition (BIID) to an advocacy term (transableism) is to “harness the stunning cultural power of gender ideology” to the cause of allowing doctors to “treat” BIID patients by “amputating healthy limbs, snipping spinal cords or destroying eyesight,” according to Evolution News and Science Today (EN), which reports on and analyzes evolution, neuroscience, bioethics, intelligent design and other science-related issues.
Culturally, transableism is “the next abyss,” that site also notes.
In one case, a woman in her 50s in Oslo, Norway, identifies as disabled and uses a wheelchair, although she has no physical handicap. (iStock)
Why?
Because “some of these persons mutilate themselves; others ask surgeons for an amputation or for the transection of their spinal cord,” that site adds of the shocking steps some are taking.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) notes on its website, “Those with BIID desire the amputation of one or more healthy limbs or desire a paralysis.”
A North Carolina college student called transableism a “cry for attention.”
The 24-year-old told Fox News Digital, “It’s offensive to people who actually suffer from the condition that you say you need, in order to be your true self.”
“It’s offensive to people who actually suffer from the condition.”
He went on, “It’s embarrassing, and I don’t know if you can be considered a serious human being if you alter your body like this, instead of getting the appropriate mental help you need.”
In one case of BIID, Jørund Viktoria Alme, 53, a senior credit analyst in Oslo, Norway, identifies as disabled and uses a wheelchair, even though she has no physical handicap.
Alme is also transgender, according to Heraldscotland.com. Alme said on the morning TV program “Good Morning Norway” in 2022 that it had been a “lifelong wish” to have been born “a woman paralyzed from the waist down,” the same source noted.
One woman in her 20s (not pictured) identified as blind but wasn’t — and even took steps to try to destroy her own eyesight, according to multiple reports. (iStock)
In an even more shocking case, a 21-year-old North Carolina woman who identified as blind actually took steps to destroy her own eyesight, according to multiple reports from a few years ago.
“In my opinion, both transgender and transabled persons suffer from a delusional disorder,” Jane Orient, a general internist in Tucson, Arizona, and executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, told Fox News Digital via email.
“The Oath of Hippocrates adjures physicians to do no harm,” Orient said.
“Mutilating the body is an objective harm even if makes the patient subjectively feel better,” she added.
“Those with BIID desire the amputation of one or more healthy limbs or desire a paralysis,” notes the website of the NIH. (iStock)
“The disability is lifelong and imposes burdens on others — and neither patients nor physicians can duck responsibility for that.”
Orient also noted, “With transgenders the follow-up is generally very short — not sure about the [follow-up with] elective amputees,” she said.
What are your thoughts on trans age or transableism?
If one can change gender, can a 54 year old legitimately claim to be a 12 year old and society should treat them as such?
Likewise, can an able bodied person claim to be a double amputee and claim the associated benefits?
— Lovely Cushioned Header (@GrainOfDoubt) April 24, 2023
