BADD - Two impacts of disability discrimination on BIID.
by Sean - 1 May 2007
Today is Blogging Against Disabilism Day (BADD). I made an entry about it last year, and it was nearly not accepted into the collection of entries, but after some exchanges, it was accepted. There are so many issues that could be raised that tie the issues of fighting discrimination on the basis of disability and those encountered in relation to Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID). I’d like to raise two of those at this point: First, how amputees often do not perceive themselves as having a disability, and how that reflects itself in the BIID community; and second, how the medical community has a negative bias against disabilities, and how that impacts the struggle of the transabled individual.
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