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Replying to @Pathfinder4545 @Mishyana and
I mean, no, this is false There are, in fact, case reports of people with BIID who've had an amputation, which appears to have resolved their condition Those are the cases the TERFs have seized on to start their moral panichttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4094630/ …
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Pathfinder4545 and
I mean. Literally the only thing we know that will resolve persistent BIID. Doctors are really fucking resistant to amputate healthy limbs for obvious reasons, but it is the ONLY TREATMENT WE KNOW OF THAT HELPS. Therapy doesn't do a damn thing for BIID sufferers.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
And in fact in many cases what happens if you "disaffirm" it is people try home amputations with like, kitchen knives and chainsaws and shit.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
(I'm pretty sure that's how there's any research at all -- some of them manage to do themselves enough damage that surgeons have had to give up and amputate the affected limb. Which resolves the BIID. Which seems to indicate that yeah, we COULD save everyone a lot of trouble.)
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
Severe BIID is rare as shit, but seriously, sufferers are CRIPPLINGLY unhappy. Is amputating a healthy limb anyone's favorite idea? Of course not. But is it really better to have someone die by suicide? PROBABLY NOT.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
Sorry, this is kind of a hobbyhorse of mine because BIID is the disorder that transphobes AND EVERYONE ELSE uses as the "these people are obviously too crazy to be indulged" disease, but IT REALLY IS NOT THAT EASY.
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Replying to @iridienne @Pathfinder4545 and
JK Rowling was giving away her TERFitude when she has Cormoran Strike, an amputee war veteran, flip the fuck out about encountering a BIID amputee support group As though there actually are enough of them in one country for such a group to exist
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
And as though anyone cares enough about this issue to write a whole book about it except for TERFs who see BIID as an analogy to trans people
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Pathfinder4545 and
Fucking YUP. Trans people are understandably reluctant to be compared to BIID sufferers, but i suspect there MIGHT be a similar underlying mechanism? But BIID is much rarer.
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If there is, it actually lends credence to the "born this way" explanation about it being a "wiring problem" between the brain and the rest of the body, and takes it away from purely "cultural" explanations ("evil men appropriating womanhood") etc.
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Pathfinder4545 and
Yeah, i mean, if you read descriptions of people who suffer from BIID about their dysmorphia, they do echo with the descriptions of SOME people who have severe gender dysphoria? (I don't think there's ONE underlying "cause" of trans-ness, i think there's probably several.)
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
Seems viable that if there's a mechanism for it to occur they could share commonalities
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