Rebel, Rebel: And You Think You Are Confused About Your Identity

The world must be getting tired about homosexuality because the transexuals have been all the rage lately.

Things can get really weird, really fast in this brave new world, so bear with me.

First there was the ABC newstrans who started out as a man then changed to a woman and has now switched back to a man as related in the NY Post,

"ABC News editor Don Ennis strolled into the newsroom in May wearing a little black dress and an auburn wig and announced he was transgender and splitting from his wife. He wanted to be called Dawn.
But now he says he suffered from a two-day bout of amnesia that has made him realize he wants to live his life again as Don."

And then there is the bizarre story of Chloe Jennings-White who used to be a man, and who now has decided that he/she is a paraplegic due to something called "Body Identity Disorder".

"Chloe Jennings-White, a Ph.D., chemist living in Salt Lake City, Utah, lives her life as a paraplegic — and wheelchair users, she also wears long leg braces that lock at the knee to enable her to ambulate with crutches. She is comfortable and happy as a paraplegic. However, when she needs to use the flight of stairs in her house, she gets out of her chair and walks up and down the stairs, with the leg braces unlocked, enabling her legs to bend at the knee. She drives, but rather than the slow cumbersome task of taking her chair apart and transferring it into the car, she stands up and walks to the back of her car and puts the chair into the trunk. The car she drives doesn’t have hand controls.
Like many wheelchair users, Jennings-White enjoys outdoor activities. While most wheelchair users employ adaptive equipment and arm power to engage in these activities, Jennings-White simply removes her leg braces and goes on 12-hour hikes in the woods and climbs 11,000-foot mountain peaks.
When she wants to go snow skiing, Jennings-White stands up, clips into her ski bindings and spends the day on the slopes as non-disabled skier — at the top of a ski lift she will hike a considerable distance in order to get to the best snow on distant, very steep expert runs or chutes — runs with rocks or cliffs on each side.
If this sounds confusing — it is — because Chloe Jennings-White is only pretending to be a paraplegic. She chooses to live her life as a paraplegic because she has a rare condition known as Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) — characterized by, in her case, by an overwhelming desire to become a paraplegic. For her, using a wheelchair and pretending to be a paraplegic helps ease this desire."
h/t FiveFeetofFury 

I haven't felt this confused since my brush with David Bowie way back when:



Sometimes I wonder if all this confusion is really just the work of of the great deceiver.

Things were much simpler back when the only deceivers we had to contend with were the ones Tennessee Williams wrote about in "The Glass Menagerie".