Transgender Adults Have 2x Higher Rates Of Disability Than Their Cisgender Counterparts

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[–]ClassroomPast6178 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Transgender adults have a higher probability of reporting a disability compared with cisgender men and women.

I’m one of those old-fashioned disabled people, you know with an actual life-long disability that restricts my activities of daily life, who has had to watch as the meaning of the word “disabled” has been eroded over the past two decades.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that these TG “disabled” figures have been compiled by self-report with no definition of the word “disabled”.

It’s like sudden rash of female celebrities reporting their autism and adhd diagnoses - it doesn’t seem to have handicapped you in anyway as you performed on TV, stage and screen, unlike the 10 year old autistic child in my class who bit and spat at people.

I was on the UK teacher Reddit sub where newly diagnosed autists and adhd’ers were asking what accommodations they could get away with asking for. I felt like typing in all caps, the ones you have always needed you fucking cunts! You should know what sorts of accommodations you need because it’ll be the fucking shit you can’t do or need help doing!

And don’t get me started on the cunts who have begun to use “crip” as an identity, fuck that too.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah i wouldn't claim by posting this that they are legitimately more disabled but they certainly do claim disability constantly in their own profiles for some reason.

[–]LyingSpirit472 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Honestly, I could buy being legitimately more disabled as the reason: The groomer/cultists know that targetting misfits is easy mode to lure people into your cult, because they're social misfits who would honestly do anything if it meant they had friends, acceptance, a sense of belonging somewhere...and likewise, both cults and hate groups get to a point where eventually it becomes "maybe you're right and they're hateful, but I fight for them because they're my friends. Why should I turn my back on the only friends I have in this world for you? To make you get a warm fuzzy feeling inside? You made it clear you wouldn't piss on me if I was on fire, but these people accept me. You don't like me being on their side, maybe it's YOUR fault I joined them. Truth be told, you should shake my hand, now you have a reason to hate me!"

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yep agreed. But also just looking at it from a number of perspectives, it's not surprising to see a correlation. For a number of reasons in addition to yours.

People who are disabled are going to be at a higher risk of developing mental illness and depression because, quite simply, being disabled sucks. You can't access society as easily as other people. There's a real risk of ending up sitting at home unhappy and wasting countless hours online until your mental health degrades, which of course can be the gateway into the trans cult along with just about anything else you can think of. I've had a couple of injuries that fucked me up for a while and the social isolation that can come from just having a simple outing to the coffee shop feel like you've climbed a mountain makes you isolated even if you're proactively trying to avoid that.

Then well another unfortunate truth of the world that is simply taboo to say, stupid people are more likely to get themselves injured and on permanent disability because they are more likely to do stupid things. If you're mentally ill already in some way you're going to be at a higher risk of injury just because you're going to he more likely to engage in dangerous behavior or make stupid mistakes. And well we could potentially describe these various kinds of bodily disphoric conditions as self destructive as well since as they progress the subjects will attempt various forms of self treatment. You'll find the interesting (morbidly speaking) cases of people amputating their own limbs and frankly if you are sadistic enough to peruse medical literature here (not recommended) you'll find an edge case for virtually anything you can imagine.

To keep things simple and not subject you to the worst of it. I'll say I think these are all co-morbidities with suicidal ideation, which may also be described as a kind of "disphoria" rather a feeling that one should be something they are not, in this case dead. And we all know that suicide can end up being a socially contagious problem. At it's core I don't think there really is that much different between someone despondent at their own existence to the point they wish to actively destroy themselves vs some part of themselves except for the progression of the mental Illness.