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[–]GConly 14 insightful - 3 fun14 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Here for real talk/research on my foreign limb disorder...

I have some BIID and trans mri links cached.

https://www.reddit.com/user/datatroves/comments/e2jsrn/datatrove_for_biid/

https://www.reddit.com/user/datatroves/comments/e73qt0/datatrove_transgender_mri_studies_correcting_for/

Relevant brain part (IFOF) and other conditions it's relevant to.

https://www.reddit.com/user/datatroves/comments/e8rvwr/datatrove_what_is_an_inferior_frontooccipital/

My sympathy, that has to be uncomfortable.

There is a link between trans and BIID, about 19% of BIID cases are also trans, from 15 years ago. There's no way it's an accidental relationship.

The part of the brain that is abnormal in trans brains has to do with body perception, anxiety and all kind of weird mental health issues. I wouldn't be surprised if you'd see an abnormality in BIID there too.

The connection with transsexuality is especially intriguing due to the percentage (19 percent) of BIID patients who also exhibit a gender identity problem and the high percentage of homosexual and bisexual BIID patients (also 19 percent) (First, 2005; Lawrence, 2006).

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Bailey/BIID/Lawrence%20article%20-%20June%202006.pdfaa

Clinical and Theoretical Parallels Between Desire for LimbAmputation and Gender Identity Disorder

Desire for amputation of a limb: Paraphilia, psychosis, or a new type of identity disorder.

All subjects were asked if they ever had ‘ feelings of wishing to be the opposite sex, or having the feeling of being in the body of the wrong sex ’. Ten subjects (19%) said yes; the majority of whom (n=7) reported some history of cross- dressing behavior (not including those who only cross-dressed as part of transvestic fetishism); six out of the ten reported thoughts of getting sex reassignment surgery and one did.

[–]NotYerWorthlessWurm[S] 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

thanks! lots to read tonight

[–]GConly 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

You're welcome.