People are now becoming disabled by choice and they are called ‘Transabled’

Some
people are becoming disabled by choice and calling themselves “transabled.” Researchers in Canada are trying to better understand how transabled people
think and feel.

Clive Baldwin, a Canada Research Chair in Narrative Studies who
teaches social work at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N.B., has
interviewed 37 people worldwide who identify as transabled. Most of them are men.

About half are in Germany and Switzerland, but he
knows of a few in Canada. Most crave an amputation or paralysis, though he has
interviewed one person who wants his penis removed. Another wants to be…