You’ve heard of transgenderism, of course, as have your children ad nauseam if they are unfortunate enough to public school.
You may be familiar with the more controversial practice of transracialism, as embodied by the lily-white BLM lady who transed herself into racial diversity.
If you’re deep in the weeds, you might have encountered the “transage” self-identity in which adults live their lives as children.
But you may be uninitiated into the world of “body integrity identity disorder” and its implications for a phenomenon called transableism.
The Psychiatry Bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, regularly manufactures new diagnoses — that, not coincidentally, require ongoing interventions such as therapy and drugs — to describe an ever-expanding list of psychiatric conditions.
