My initial thought was that there are so very few of these people that they aren’t worth spending a lot of time thinking about, that the article is sensational and attempting to push just another hot button for the vast population that is media addicted, and that certain accademics have found yet another marginal affliction to study and possibly enhance their carreers. I now am positive that all the above are fact.
It is no surprise to me that most of these people live in countries—Germany and Switzerland—with excellent social welfare systems where they can live the rest of their lives in comfort while the populations around them work and support them with their taxes—thereby eventually threatening a very good social welfare system. And now that these people’s self-mutilation is given a veilance of legitimacy by academia with a diagnostic name, “Transabled”, it is only a matter of time before this insanity spreads and these people will be asking for the same rights as the transgenderd, the transsexuals, the transvestites and the many other “trannies”—whom I believe are legitimate.
I believe, at this time, that these “transabled” people should be vilified and this is why:
We all belong to a society whether we like it or not. It is our duty, as members of our societies, to contribute to them what we can.
To purposely do something that can prevent oneself from contributing and simultaneously make them dependents or even threaten to make them dependent, should be considered a crime. It should be recognised as a psychiatric problem, and it should be advertised that if these people don’t seek help before carrying out these acts of crippling self mutilation, they should be punished as welfare cheats. At this time, I believe that the are welfare cheats and are endangering good, necessary programs for others who desperately need assistance.
We punish alcoholics who don;t seek help and damage property, hurt, and kill people. These people need to be punished for not seeking help and endangering social welfare programs and not given legitimacy by academia.