Legless

[BDC]

Ooops.

[Vladimir]

Ooops.

I think that double posting is the sign of a disorder.

[yesdachi]

Should Universal Health Care pay for the procedure?

[Kanamori]

Well, I suppose it is possible that she got this entrenched in her mind since childhood and finds accepting her two legs as impossible...

There's no way I wouldn't call this a mental illness... but the possibility remains that she developed the insane desire and maybe the best way to fix it is to take them off... Ultimately, I think a person's body is in their own domain, so long as the action in question only effects them.

I say maybe, because I have no idea about how effective psychological or psychiatric treatments may be and whether or not some other underlying mental illness, aside from what they call BIID, prevents her from reasonably changing her mind.

Could nerves in the leg, or even those correlated in the brain, be messed up and she actually has some reason to think something is wrong with her legs?

I think BIID will stay taboo until people get together and bring it out. A hundred years ago, it was taboo to be gay in many societies, and 50 years ago the idea of transsexuals was abhorrent to most. I have tried to make the condition more understood but it is difficult to get a case out in the open by yourself.

The real issue isn't how accepted it is as being normal, but more about how accepted the idea is that she can't reasonably change -- I don't mean actually using reason but how likely she would be to ever change -- her mind about her legs.

[Vladimir]

This all reminds me of the tale of some boy (child) who thought he was female so much that he wanted a sex change. The usual shyness about being naked around boys when he was younger evolved into genital mutilation in high school. One time he shoved a metal wire up his penis multiple times hoping that it would have to be removed. It sounds very much like dry ice lady.

[Del Arroyo]

Hemingway wrote a short story about a boy who cut his own dick off.

[Papewaio]

Should Universal Health Care pay for the procedure?

If it is a mental problem:
Then the full spectrum of mental health resources should be engaged... which is compared to physical health minute at best... for some reason mental health still has a stigma about it which includes a lack of resources devoted to it. Mental health issues should get higher priority then life style choices (recreational drugs and sports for instance).

[doc_bean]

So, has she got a leg to stand on ?

[Hosakawa Tito]

Never heard of BIID. Is there no treatment for such a pyschotic condition, might the children be at risk of inheriting this pychosis?
I wouldn't be thanking her or the mother-in-law for not divulging this before the nuptials either.

Well, I had to look this one up. Here's the wiki-> BIID

[Kralizec]

This doesn't sound like a psychosis to me.

I heard of the condition before but I have no opinion about it, let alone the fact that I'm not a psychologist. If we're to allow sex-changes I don't see why this shouldn't be.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Firstly, transgender issues have now been shown to be biological. The brain in the sufferer is litterally the wrong type so that they are a man trapped in a woman's body, or vice-versa. I forget the exact science but it has been shown to be biological, at least in some cases.

BIID has not yet been shown to be such. Until it is it remains a mental health issue and sufferers should be counseled and persuaded out of it. At the point where they start endangering their own lives amputation then becomes an option.

[Rameusb5]

Should Universal Health Care pay for the procedure?

Probably not. But it should pay for her psychiatric treatment.