Twitter Reacts to Man Who Identifies as Disabled Woman, Uses Wheelchair ‘Most of the Time’
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.
“I have struggled with this every day my whole life,” Jørund Viktoria Alme, 53, told the Norwegian outlet Vi earlier this year, according to Reduxx.
“It is a cognitive dissonance: in the same way that I experience being a woman in a man’s 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,” Alme continued.
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’s TV 2 did a follow-up piece including the perspectives of four disabled women.
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.
My daughter has had a wheelchair since she was 18 mos old – it was tiny, specially made. The 1st thing she said was, "I walk!"
This man should be ashamed. But…of course he's not.
— Minerva 🖊💛💚 🤍 💜 (@VonAlawon) November 1, 2022
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