Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), or Body Integrity Dysphoria, is a rare psychological condition characterized by an intense, lifelong desire to become physically disabled (e.g., amputee, paraplegic) because of a belief that a specific body part does not belong. Symptoms include severe distress, acting as if disabled, and risks of self-harm, often stemming from a discrepancy between the brain’s body map and physical reality.

I’ve recently stumbled upon such disorder’s existance, and in some ways it seems similar to gender dysphoria. It supposedly cannot be cured by therapy nor anti depressants. The way it manifests is really similar to how GD does, so I’m curious if it stems from similar malfunctions in different regions of the brain on a biological basis.

I’ve also recently saw some online comments under a video about BIID, and the way that people reacted were similar to how transphobes or cissoids do. I feel like it gives a perspective on how cissoids might perceive us. Probably not literally in the same way, but coming from the same background of lack of understanding. They literally cannot understand what they didn’t experience, just like we can’t understand BIID in the way BIID people do.

Sorry if too off topic from trans issues, or too truscum, but I want some actual discussion here. Not a troll post.

    • FuwareiOP
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      3 days ago

      Not really much, I’ve only heard of it recently. But the way we as trannies even react to BIID seems similar to how cissoids do to trans people. For example Ray Blanchard just used a tactic for BIID, which transphobes use to invalidate trans people, saying that it is a delusion. I do not wish to be a hypocrite, so assuming people with BIID suffer on a psychical brain structure malfunction basis similar to how trans people do, and they are grown adults like 25, years of therapy didn’t help, and their quality of life is unbearable due to dysphoria. I think amputation would be justified, but with a much more rigorous threshold than it is to transition for trans people, due to the very obvious disability.

      • honlarperlarper
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        3 days ago

        BIID is, by definition, a false belief that the limb doesnt belong. a delusion is a false belief.

        just because transphobes incorrectly label being trans as a delusion doesnt mean anyone who uses the term delusion is using the same “tactic” as transphobes ffs.

        • FuwareiOP
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          3 days ago

          But it is literally based on their brain mappings, therapy doesn’t help. I see it literally in the same light I see my own dysphoria. What would you do if you’ve felt the same kind of dysphoria but towards your legs instead of gender? Were you able to cure your gender dysphoria?

          Od course I am assuming it is the same in nature as gender dysphoria is. If it isn’t, and there are some differences which make it curable, then I turn back every word that I had said.

          • honlarperlarper
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            3 days ago

            having the brain of the wrong sex is different than a brain that has a defect causing BIID.

            • FuwareiOP
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              3 days ago

              Yes they are but they manifest in a similar kind of distress. Depending on the fact if BIID is easier to fix on the neurological level it might be a better option to find such cure.

              • honlarperlarper
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                3 days ago

                there are a lot of things that could cause a similar kind of distress. but just because the symptoms of two conditions look the same from the outside doesnt mean the experience of living with those conditions is comparable.

                • FuwareiOP
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                  3 days ago

                  But this is the only other neurological issue I know of which causes such distress