Transcredulous, we are

Becoming disabled by choice, not chance: ‘Transabled’ people feel like impostors in their fully working bodies

“We define transability as the desire or the need for a person identified as able-bodied by other people to transform his or her body to obtain a physical impairment,” says Alexandre Baril, a Quebec born academic who will present on “transability” at this week’s Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Ottawa.