Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder – Just another disability!
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by Chloe - 4 January 2010
I apologise to everyone for throwing in an obscure reference to the movie "To Kill a Mockingbird" in last month’s post, Ruminations on Sexuality, without giving any clue as to why I find relevance to BIID in the story. This post is to rectify that.
To Kill a Mockingbird continues »
by Chloe - 16 November 2009
Tora’s comments regarding "On The Origin Or Causes Of BIID – Abuse Or Not?" got me thinking. There are potential psychological, physical and financial benefits to having BIID. Others, and indeed ourselves, can mistake such benefits as having a causative nature with regard to BIID. The logic in making such a connection is faulty.
Benefits Masquerading as Cause continues »
by Sean - 20 August 2009
In a recent series of comments on A comparison between transsexuality and transableism, which had 117 comments at the time of this writing, Nikki Sullivan asked several most interesting questions, and made many good points. I wanted to separate those questions and points and address then in a post of their own, as they are too important to "hide" them in a long list of comments.
Responding To Nikki Sullivan’s Questions continues »
by Sean - 9 April 2009
Today’s topic is one that can be quite controversial. Legalised Physician Assisted Suicide, or Legal Euthanasia, and how BIID relates to that. It is interesting that between the time I conceived of this post and now, I’ve had two other people write about that theme (upcoming posts). The basic idea here is to contrast the "value" of death vs the "value" of life with a physical impairment.
Physician Assisted Suicide And BIID continues »
by Chloe - 23 January 2009
I was browsing this site and came across Sean’s "Walking the Dog". It started me thinking about what it’s like to walk in public now. I was going to post a comment, but my thoughts on it kept expanding.
Walking Is Weird continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2012 - All Rights Reserved.