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 -  (2 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.

[–]hfxB0oyADon't piss on my head & tell me it's raining. 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Came here to say just this. Most likely "identifying as disabled".

We've got a self described queer BIPOC observant Muslim hijabi woman in my neck of the woods who reaches for extra points by also claiming she has an "invisible disability". So annoying.

[–]lunarstrain 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The manipulation of people's goodwill for invisible disability is really sad. I knew a man with pulmonary Sarcoidosis and you wouldn't have known he was terminally ill by looking at him until it eventually spread to his skin.