Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder – Just another disability!
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by Chloe - 23 November 2011
The Utah Pride Center recently sponsored a gender conference at a local college entitled "Beyond the Binary". I couldn’t resist. Besides inherent interest in the subject matter per se, I knew I would find BIID analogies sprinkling down from the ceilings wherever I went.
Beyond the Binary continues »
by Chloe - 20 November 2010
Phil asked me recently "Dear Chloe, how have you found peace of mind and this attitude [about BIID]?" In the thirty months or so that I have been following transabled.org I have gone from feeling insecure, scared, confused, frustrated and desperate about BIID to feeling comfortable and peaceful about it. How was this magic trick accomplished?
Peace of Mind continues »
by Chloe - 6 February 2010
There I was, waiting for the intersex support group to begin. The psychotherapist and I were chatting, a vacant chair between us. Someone walked into the meeting room and sat down in that chair. My jaw dropped. I stared. Those feeble little cogs in my brain churned away trying to comprehend the situation.
Found Out! continues »
by Chloe - 16 September 2009
I am not somebody easily aroused to anger. However, I am writing this because I’m pissed off. It started with the fuss about the gender of South African athlete Caster Semenya. I blew my fuse when I read the headline "The birth defect people don’t talk about."
I’m Defective! continues »
by Chloe - 17 April 2009
People with BIID inhabit a netherworld of being neither able bodied nor disabled. Hermaphrodites inhabit a netherworld of being neither male nor female.
BIID/Intersex Analogies continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2012 - All Rights Reserved.