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 love Taboo. It’s probably one of the smartest shows on the NGC. But this fucking blows. This is stupid Liberal moral relativism “all opinions are equally valid” at it’s most venal.
I mean, I could be wrong. Maybe they’ll do a really smart job of explaining why this shit is, and should be, taboo.
But I don’t have high hopes.
do you remember that episode of glee
where tina tells artie she doesnt really stutter
and artie says,
at the end of the day you can stop stuttering but i’ll be in this chair forever
fuck transabled ppl 4 real
cos even if they have BIID, there is no obligation for me to entertain what is quite literally psychosis as a legitimate set of social signifiers. like if she has BIID i get why she does this but that doesnt mean i have to support claims to marginalization.
If BIID is real (I have no knowledge about the subject), I don’t understand how it would be different in this case from GID. I see no difference between you saying “there is no obligation for me to entertain what is quite literally psychosis as a legitimate set of social signifiers [sic]” when referring to BIID and GID.
