Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder – Just another disability!
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by Sean - 1 May 2011
Today’s post might anger some people. So be it. May 1, 2011 is Blogging Against Disablism Day. I’m going to talk about a form of disablism – or disability discrimination, that is not obvious at first sight. I’m going to talk about how so many transgendered people express virulent "opposition" to transabled people and how that is discrimination.
BADD – Discrimination, Transsexuals and BIID continues »
by Sean - 1 May 2009
I watched a recent Australian documentary about BIID. The documentary finished by asking if potential surgeries for BIID and related medical care should be paid for by tax payer money. This is a controversial issue, and one that is brought up on a semi-regular basis.
Who Has To Pay For Surgery For BIID? (BADD) continues »
by Sean - 1 May 2008
Blogging Against Disablism Day (BADD) is happening for the third year. And for the third year, I am participating. The first year was a bit bumpy, the second year wasn’t so. You can read past the past entries if you are interested :) This year, I wish to speak about the hierarchy found in the disability community, as it is a topic that has been toyed with on this blog recently.
BADD – How disability hierarchy hurts transabled people continues »
by Sophie - 1 May 2007
For a while I wasn’t sure I was going to be doing any post for Blogging Against Disablism Day. I didn’t really know what I should say. It wasn’t until I established in my mind what the term disability really meant to me that something sprang to mind. Sean will probably already go over this (if he hasn’t already), but I personally think an impairment is the actual physical/mental/emotional problem, and a disability is what arises from the social and physical constraints as a result of your impairment.
BADD – When does an impairment become a disability? continues »
by Sean -
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.
BADD – Two impacts of disability discrimination on BIID. continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2012 - All Rights Reserved.