Xenomelia Conference--Zurich

[JesusA (imported)]

In March of 2013, a two-day international conference on Xenomelia (Body Integrity Identity Disorder) was held at University Hospital Zurich. The conference program and all of the Powerpoint slides used in the presentations are available as a 24 meg. download at:

http://www.fortbildung.usz.ch/pdf/FS201 ... omelie.pdf

Some of the presentations are difficult to understand from the slides alone, but most are very clear.

Since many of the members here seem to fit a xenomelia diagnosis, this might be a good opportunity to use this thread to comment on what the "experts" are seeing. What I find most interesting is that they completely avoid any discussion of male genitals, even though I had been in email communication with both Peter Brugger and Michael First about how common it is and how well it fits a xenomelia diagnosis well before the conference. This, even though at the 2009 conference when it was titled Body Integrity Identity Disorder, a presentation by Marian Swindell and Jan St. Lawrence attempted to count all examples that could be found in the medical literature. They determined that male genitals were the most frequent body parts effected. Left lower limbs were second in frequency in the medical literature.

[Dave (imported)]

Those slides are enough to put one off his or her feed for a day or two.

Gee, golly whizzes, are they hiding from the transgender community? Or don't they want to deal with it?

That is my first question.

This sounds like the only problem is with people who want arms or legs or hands or feet parts removed. It sort of ignores genitals when any person hearing the story of a transgender individual knows that they dislike and what to remove or change their current set of genitals.