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The article says they are just like people that feel they are prisoners in a body that "does not belong to them"....and research indicates it is no different" than those wanting to change their gender.
Well, if you had bothers to read the article, you would find it will be briefed this week at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Ottawa. Evidently this study is being done by Researchers in Canada who are trying to better understand how transabled people think and feel. Clive Baldwin, a Canada Research Chair in Narrative Studies who teaches social work at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N.B., has interviewed 37 people worldwide who identify as transabled.
Well, if you had bothers to read the article, you would find it will be briefed this week at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Ottawa. Evidently this study is being done by Researchers in Canada who are trying to better understand how transabled people think and feel. Clive Baldwin, a Canada Research Chair in Narrative Studies who teaches social work at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N.B., has interviewed 37 people worldwide who identify as transabled.
37 is nothing for a research study group. Aside from that, a few points. With transgender there is a scale, and not all people who fall on the scale wish to modify their bodies. When they do, it's in order to become more whole, not disabled! I find the idea of attempting to become disabled to be a slap in the face of those who had no choice in the matter.
Since it doesn't effect me, isn't about me, and isn't about anyone I know or care about its not that relevant to me. Maybe at some point I will become interested in this. Right now all I wish is that these people get the help they need.
I have run across a couple of people like this (they have attended a wheelchair group I belonged to).
I'll admit that we were freaked out that their were people that actually wanted to be stuck in a wheelchair when we had no choice in the matter.
I usually live and let live, but this truly confused me as I would give anything to not be disabled.
The article says they are just like people that feel they are prisoners in a body that "does not belong to them"....and research indicates it is no different" than those wanting to change their gender.
These people are mentally ill IMHO.
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