Transgender Is So Yesterday - Welcome to The Transabled

 Transgender Is So Yesterday - Welcome to The Transabled - by PNWstaff - https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=6058 When transgenderism began to go mainstream, many conservative commentators began to ask reasonable questions. If a man could become a woman and a woman could become a mansimply by saying so -- by self-identifying as what they felt they were or what they would like to be -- then how could this not apply more broadly? Could someone, for example, decide to identify as black even if they were white? Could they be "trans-species" and announce that they were actually something other than human?How far would society have to go in universally affirming the weird self-actualization exercise of the deluded and trendy? These questions were dismissed as stupid and -- worse! -- disrespectful to the legitimate struggles and lived experiences of transgender people. Despite those who pointedout that if the biological boundaries of sex could be traversed at will there was no reason to assume that any other category would hold once the question of who we are was a question of how we feel, the elites embraced the idea that the Binary Was Bad. Occasional disconcerting examples of how these premises could be applied in other situations -- like the case of Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who identified as black foryears -- were dismissed as crackpot oddities. But that, as they say, was then, and this is now. The premises of gender ideology having been adopted, it is slowly but surely becoming more common for people to identifyas different races, as animals, aliens, or made-up creatures. And now the "transabled" movement is beginning to attract attention. This movement is made up of people who feel themselves to be disabled but are in fact physically healthy. Many of them wish to have a limb removed or to be otherwise mutilatedso that their appearance and ability will match how they "feel"; we already see a medical community which has embraced the practice of cutting off penises and surgically removing healthy breasts for the gender dysphoric so it will have trouble finding anycompelling grounds to refuse this new push. One recent viral example of this is an interview on Good Morning Norway with a robust 53-year-old Norwegian male named Jørund Viktoria Alme, who now identifies as a disabledwoman because, he told the interviewer, he has always wished he was born a woman who was paralyzed from the waist down. Almes, who works as a senior credit analyst in Oslo, first announced that he was transabled in 2020, and has received predictably sympathetic coverage from the mainstreammedia while being excoriated on social media. He has occasionally given interviews alongside his wife Agnes, who hasn't detailed how she feels about her husband's category switch presumably morphing her into a lesbian. Almes' story really is the sort of thing that, if pitched to a Hollywood producer, would probably be rejected as too far-fetched. He is perfectly healthy, but is in a wheelchair"almost all of the time." His identification, he says, is a combination of his gender dysphoria (leading him to claim he is a woman) and Body Integrity Disorder, which leads him to see himself as disabled. Disinterested observers will note that he is neither a woman nor is he disabled. Almes' own description of his condition concedes as much: "It is a cognitive dissonance: inthe same way that I experience being a woman in a man's body, I experience that I should have been paralyzed from the waist down. This is not a desire to be a burden on society. It is about the wheelchair being an aid for me to function in everyday life, bothprivately and at work." Understandably, people who have actual disabilities have been less than pleased by Almes and his media interviews, with a number of actual women with actual disabilities notingthat he is a "person with functional legs who chooses to sit in a wheelchair" and that his charade was a perpetual insult to the disabled community. The TV station that hosted the interview attempted to defend themselves by saying that Alme (who they obediently referred to by female pronouns) had a "deep feeling that certainbody parts or body functions feel foreign," but that their search for "independent professionals to explain what BID is" had "so far been unsuccessful." Now, Agnes accepts her husband's new identity, although she is clearly uncomfortable with it. Many women facing similar situations haven't been able to do that -- there hasbeen a surge in the publication of the memoirs of "trans widows" recently, as self-actualization journeys carry people away from their spouses and families. Plenty of people are responding to this story by claiming that those drawing attention to it are merely highlighting weird cases in order to smear the transgender movementas a whole. The truth is that Alme is being interviewed by mainstream media outlets who are utterly accepting of all of his claims, and deleting social media responses by respondents who are not. In even more extreme cases, transabled people take matters into their own hands and mutilate themselves. For example, a North Carolina woman named Jewel Shuping blinded herself with drain cleaner at the age of 21. Born perfectly healthy, Shuping said she had always wanted to lose her eyesight. "It hurt, let me tell you. My eyes were screaming and I had some drain cleaner going down my cheek burning my skin," Shuping told People Magazine. "All I could think was,'I am going blind, it is going to be okay.'" Once you buy the idea that a man can become a woman, you've accepted that identity no longer needs to correspond with biological reality. A healthy man identifying as a womanparalyzed from the waist down is just a start. Most would probably agree that it would be insanity for a doctor to inflict paralysis on a healthy individual. But one might also think the same thing about removing genitaliafrom a healthy male or performing a mastectomy on a healthy young female. Jane Orient, an internal medicine doctor from Tucson, Ariz., weighed in on the phenomenon. "In my opinion, both transgender and transabled persons suffer from a delusional disorder," Orient said. Orient -- who is also executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons -- cited the Hippocratic Oath. This binding principle says doctors should dono harm. "Mutilating the body is an objective harm even if it makes the patient subjectively feel better," she said. "The disability is lifelong and imposes burdens on others. Andneither patients nor physicians can duck responsibility for that."