{"id":1722082,"date":"2022-11-02T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T20:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722082"},"modified":"2022-11-02T16:34:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T20:34:39","slug":"should-be-ashamed-twitter-reacts-to-man-who-identifies-as-disabled-woman-uses-wheelchair-most-of-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/should-be-ashamed-twitter-reacts-to-man-who-identifies-as-disabled-woman-uses-wheelchair-most-of-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Should Be Ashamed\u2019: Twitter Reacts To Man Who Identifies As Disabled Woman, Uses Wheelchair \u2018Most Of The Time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshould-be-ashamed-twitter-reacts-to-man-who-identifies-as-disabled-woman-uses-wheelchair-most-of-the-time%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722082&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/norway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Norwegian<\/a> man who identifies as a woman has inspired ire on social media for also identifying as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/disability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disabled<\/a> and using a wheelchair despite not physically needing one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have struggled with this every day my whole life,\u201d J\u00f8rund Viktoria Alme, 53, told the Norwegian outlet Vi earlier this year, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/reduxx.info\/norwegian-man-now-identifies-as-a-disabled-woman-uses-wheelchair-almost-full-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reduxx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a cognitive dissonance: in the same way that I experience <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">being a woman<\/a> in a man\u2019s body, I experience that I should have been paralyzed from the waist down. This is not a desire to be a burden on society. It is about the wheelchair being an aid for me to function in everyday life, both privately and at work,\u201d Alme continued.<\/p>\n<p>The publication noted that Velme faced backlash following a recent interview with Good Morning Norway (God Morgen Norge, GMN). It became such a big story that Norway\u2019s TV 2 did a follow-up piece including the perspectives of four disabled women.<\/p>\n<p>One of those interview subjects was an 18-year-old woman named Emma Sofie Grimstad who spent two months in a wheelchair after contracting an inflammatory disease.<\/p>\n<p>She said \u201cthere are many who don\u2019t have that choice\u201d to be in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think everything should get airtime,\u201d Grimstad told TV2. \u201c[Alme\u2019s] interview can harm people who are in wheelchairs and do not have a choice. It can even lead to suspicions about people who have no visible illnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter users reading about Alme\u2019s story were equally outraged, especially those who were disabled themselves or had family members who were.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy daughter has had a wheelchair since she was 18 [months] old \u2013 it was tiny, specially made,\u201d one person <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VonAlawon\/status\/1587552971176706049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared<\/a>. \u201cThe 1st thing she said was, \u2018I walk!\u2019 This man should be ashamed. But\u2026of course he\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Able-bodied male uses wheelchair almost always [because] he identifies as a woman who is paralyzed.\u2019 Mental illness is reaching levels we never thought possible,\u201d another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PekalaLaw\/status\/1587575962761396226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is so insulting,\u201d another Twitter user shared. \u201cI\u2019m a wheelchair user. I went through excruciating pain with spinal &#038; neurological damage. It\u2019s not a joke &#038; this to me is mocking me &#038; others who\u2019ve suffered awfully. Being in a chair has taken so much life away from me &#038; my family. This is appalling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/19132621\/#:~:text=The%20term%20body%20integrity%20identity,transection%20of%20their%20spinal%20cord.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PubMed<\/a>, body integrity identity disorder (BIID) is an \u201cextremely rare phenomenon of persons who desire the amputation of one or more healthy limbs or who desire a paralysis. Some of these persons mutilate themselves; others ask surgeons for an amputation or for the transection of their spinal cord.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alme replied directly to the criticism, saying, \u201cI have struggled with my own shame and prejudices for 50 years before I was so bothered by BID that I finally had to open up about it.\u201d The Norwegian said the interviews were done to promote \u201cdiversity and inclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the BID was sexually motivated, Alme replied, \u201cI don\u2019t know, maybe so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alme described being \u201cenvious\u201d of an elementary school-aged child with crutches. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy reaction was an intense interest. My heart pounded, my pulse increased and I was activated in my body. I was incredibly focused on him and what this was all about. Everyone gathered around and was going to try the crutches, while I kept my distance. I was so afraid that someone would find out what was going on inside me,\u201d Alme told the Norwegian outlet Budstikke.<\/p>\n<p>Reduxx noted that GMN was deleting negative comments on their social media pertaining to the news story about Alme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Norwegian man who identifies as a woman has inspired ire on social media for also identifying as disabled and using a wheelchair despite not physically needing one. \u201cI have struggled with this every day my whole life,\u201d J\u00f8rund Viktoria Alme, 53, told the Norwegian outlet Vi earlier this year, according to Reduxx. \u201cIt is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1722085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}