'Transablism' is now a thing?!

Afterthought: the sole purpose of providers asking 'do you have a disability' is either to check if they need to be aware in order to check they are meeting your needs according to their legal responsibilities for which they are accountable, or to measure how their service is accessible to and successful in being used by the disabled population.

Once we get into 'identify as' meaning just a personal choice of identity enactment as opposed to provable reality, those statistics become meaningless and pointless as they're fictional, and it's no longer worth collecting them. Might as well record who likes Downton Abbey or identifies as an elf.

There’ve been quite a few documentaries about this - there was a Morgan Spurlock series a few years ago with an episode about it, and another one I saw about a doctor who went around down backstreet amputations in hotel rooms. It’s another fetish for the most part, and then you get the people who deliberately blind themselves etc. It’s a mental illness clearly, but apparently blinding yourself isn’t okay but cutting off your genitals is? 🤷‍♀️

That's a good point Errol. The EA2010, which hoovered up the original Disability Discrimination Act, has clear criteria for what disability is for purposes of legal protection or for service providers to judge whether or not someone may come under that protection. 'Identify' has become a tactful way to say would you like to disclose that you are disabled, but like much of the bastardisation of language in the SJ agenda the meaning gets adapted and repurposed.

The EA also requires reasonable adjustments to be made for disabled people, with the meaningful word being 'reasonable', the necessity to balance all needs within the context of size of organisation and resources, and where possible to find adaptations and third ways that work for everybody, or to be able to demonstrate that this particular place/organisation is not able to meet the person's needs and something else should be provided. It would be very useful if the GRA worked in the same way.

'do you identify as having a disability'.

Some people who actually do have some form of impairment (eg deafness) don't want to identify as having a disability - so in some contexts that could be a valid question. But obviously no one who does not have a disability should be allowed to 'identify' as having one.

Why are they "transabled" if they want to be/identify as, disabled? That doesn't make sense. Because-
Trans + abled, reads as, wanting to be/'identifying as' + abled, implying that they're not already abled. I mean, it looks like someone who says they're "transabled" would be a disabled person who's in a state of denial, not accepting of their condition, or like someone with disabilities, making a pointed comment on identitifarianism and associated (mis)appropriation.

[I'm fact, I'm almost certain I've made snarky remarks before now about being 'Trans-agile' or 'trans-non-arthritic']

Does reality have a function in the fair division and allocation of resources in society or do we all just follow men's dicks around and call that 'inclusion'?

Beautifully put!

Delirium I wonder if body dysmorphia is what you're thinking about? The difference between someone with a significant psychological distorted perception of their body - be it feeling that a limb doesn't belong to them, that they're fat when actually they're dangerously thin, or that their body is the wrong sex - and someone who has selected an identity they are attracted to and choose to perform?

No, it's not a new thing.
I remember a few years back a woman in a wheelchair who asked the doctors for leg braces, got them, despite the fact "she" didn't need either a wheelchair or leg braces. And, you've guessed it she was born male too.

Doctors really need to stop indulging people's delusions.

Transrace is a thing
Transage (identifying as a child or baby) is a thing.
Women in the work place have actually had issues with males with fetishes demanding to have their nappies changed on the grounds of transabled/transage, and threatening discrimination proceedings if refused.

I put this question to my MP years ago in the early stages of this farce: once you've legalised someone's feelings and personal choice of identity over actual, provable reality, how are you going to draw the line between the man who is in a woman's prison in a twinset, and the fifty year old man attending the local preschool in nappies?

What are you going to do when someone who is transabled fights legally for their right to benefits, carers for full personal care, a wheelchair adapted car and a home installed wet room?

Does reality have a function in the fair division and allocation of resources in society or do we all just follow men's dicks around and call that 'inclusion'?

I think I remember that documentary (I remember watching something about people having limbs removed back in the 90s).

Do we now have people who identify as disabled but don’t feel the urge to amputate? I’d say there’s a huge difference between someone who has a limb removed and someone who uses a wheelchair needlessly. I mean, I don’t understand what drives someone to remove healthy body parts but to claim a disability based on “I feel...” is surely a totally different thing?

I’m not expressing myself well so hopefully someone else will make a better comment and help me work this out.

To be honest it seems the inevitable consequence of magling language.

So many forms now ask not 'are you male/female' but 'do you identify as male/female' and similarly not 'do you have a disability' but 'do you identify as having a disability'.

It is a shift away from material reality to feelings that leaves those who 'actually are' as opposed to 'identify as' vulnerable to having their already limited support directed away from them. I really, really dislike the phrase 'identify as'.

Transabilism is not a new phenomenon, I've seen articles and videos about it for years. I don't think society will ever accept it as they won't accept transage or transracial.

It may be growing due to the internet, people who say they are transabled are able to connect with others who feel the same way and normalise the behaviours and rally against the unfairness of a society who does not accept their mental disorder.

Where else have we seen that happen?

Really interesting twitter thread which touches on this.

twitter.com/twisterfilm/status/1155458088964636675?s=21

Insane right?!?

To you and yours.

Thank you for posting (Dr Em is so awesome!).

J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith, don't quite remember if it was the second or the third in the Strike series had a "transabled" character in it - using a wheelchair and creating a stink when she wasn't enabled in that why while admitting herself she was perfectly able to walk (it wasn't a temporary or even intermittent disability). The book's several years old already.