NGC’s Taboo is doing an episode on transablism.
In the promo for their new season, there’s a lady who is having surgery to become paraplegic, saying it will make her “feel like a complete person.”
From the NGC site:
Photo 1: Chloe Jennings-White leads a double life. A Ph.D chemist in Salt Lake City, Utah, Chloe lives as a paraplegic in a wheelchair. For the most part, people believe that Chloe is unable to walk, but she has a shocking secret. Chloe isn’t paraplegic at all.
Photo 2: Chloe Jennings-White stands beside her wheelchair. She is not a paraplegic, but chooses to live as one.
I just don’t even have anything to say about this anymore, man.
A disability is not a motherfucking choice. This beyond pisses me off. My disabilities are invisible, but still prevalent, and given the chance I would love to find a cure. I cannot help but view this as incredibly fucking offensive and making light of people who have lived their lives as paraplegics WITHOUT A CHOICE.
Oh yes. Live out your life and make the decision to become disabled, AREN’T YOU LUCKY. Jesus christ. Transabilism. Just fuck off, I’m done being ~tolerant~ for the fucking day.
Wow. My best friends sister is quadrapalegic and it wasnt her fucking choice. You’re not a good person or proving anything by doing this.
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I have no problems with Otherkin (unless they’re appropriating the language and struggles of trans* people), but other...
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Just want to point out that this woman, who states that she would ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY LOVE to be paraplegic, goes on 12...
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I’m just going to throw my opinion in. Being transgendered and transabled are similar in that both derive from a...
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Two things you mention here strike me: the first is the assumption that body dysphoria is more of a choice than gender...
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Seriously, trying to justify the CHOICE of the transabled by pointing to the issue of sex and gender, which is a valid...
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I had absolutely no idea what this was last night because I had it on mute but, I was very very confused when she went...
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it’s quite unpleasant even with hormones it’s a disconnect between the brain’s perception of the body and the reality of...
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gender is a social construct. legs are not.
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I don’t normally comment on things like this but … Are you fucking kidding me?! Who would CHOSE to be disabled?! It’s...
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Attention whore.
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Baffled beyond words. Is there an interview that I can look for or something, because this isn’t making any sense to me...
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The doctors shouldn’t even be considering doing this— this woman needs a psychiatrist, not a surgeon.
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I’m not sure what scares me the most, here. The psychological mechanisms behind this person’s choice or the ethical...
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Wow. My best friends sister is quadrapalegic and it wasnt her fucking choice. You’re not a good person or proving...
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there are a couple of studies suggesting those three behaviors are the result of a specific malfunction in the affected...
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Not disabled/ethnic/special enough? There’s an app for that.
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