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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    6 days ago

    Watch some videos about BIID on YouTube. The way they describe it, the way they are desperate, it is all the same. The way people in the comments are ignorant and actively laugh about it, just like at trans people. They see it as a delusion. It is not just ideology, it is lack of understanding. Lack of feeling the same is lack of understanding of the subjective experience.

    The difference are the different parts of the brain being malfunctioned. In case of BIID the structure which corresponds to body mapping and for gender dysphoria the structure related to your sense of gender.

    As I said before, it is a hard moral choice. But based on satisfaction polls we could measure if such treatment is effective. As I’ve said that is how we objectively know trans people are better off transitioning.

    • Loose_Sandwich9217
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      6 days ago

      They see it as a delusion

      i wonder why… im sure this has nothing at all to do with their worldview

      But based on satisfaction polls we could measure if such treatment is effective. As I’ve said that is how we objectively know trans people are better off transitioning.

      if srs made no difference in terms of satisfaction would you be against it?

      • FuwareiOP
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        6 days ago

        I’ve illustrated the point that people perceive BIID individuals as deluded even without any ideology, the same applies to trans people to a lesser extent. Ideologies can however increase such behavior. Societal acceptance decreases it.

        If SRS made no difference in satisfaction then I’d think I’d be a waste of healthcare and surgeons time, but it’d be up to the trans person to decide for themselves, and they’d have to know they won’t start feeling better because of it. However such scenario is self contradictory. If someone has dysphoria, it’ll be relieved by fixing the thing they’re dysphoric about. SRS which doesn’t relieve dysphoria would mean that it is not targeting the actual source of discomfort.