Have you come across the word ‘transabled’? This is a new one on me, and I find it a frightening term, expressing a depressing idea. ‘Transabled’ people are like ‘transgender’ people – they don’t like the body they’ve been born in. A person who calls themselves ‘transabled’ was born with a normal, healthy, fit body but wishes they had a disability.
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