Canada's National Post is reporting on an interesting study involving people that classify as "transabled" -- those that "feel like impostors in their fully working bodies."

"Transability" is defined by experts as "the desire or the need for a person identified as able-bodied by other people to transform his or her body to obtain a physical impairment. The person could want to become deaf, blind, amputee, paraplegic. It’s a really, really strong desire."

It is stated that this desire is very similar to how a transgender person expresses their feelings of being in the wrong body.

One person featured in the story goes by the moniker One Hand Jason. He explained in an interview with ModBlog that he has always considered having a right hand as a birth defect. At various times in his life, Jason tried crushing and cutting his hand so that it would have to be amputated. Since that didn't work, he says he finally used "a very sharp power tool" and removed his own hand.

Jason, not his real name, has kept this secret from friends and family, telling them he had an accident. Now that his hand is gone, he says he no longer desires amputation. He explains what he felt after his wound healed:

A huge surprise at first was how much lighter my forearm was. Maybe it was because of that, or maybe because my brain didn’t ever completely accept that I had a right hand in the first place, but it didn’t take long to accept that I couldn’t reach out and grab stuff, and instead had to pinch things between my stump and my body, or a table or something.

Jason is part of an infinitesimal group of people. Canadian researchers have only interviewed 37 people worldwide who identify as transabled. According to the report, most are men from Germany and Switzerland, though there are a few in Canada. A picture in the story shows a woman in Salt Lake City, Utah who because of an actual disability uses a wheelchair. However, she also wears leg braces, though she does not need them.

Most transabled people are said to crave paralysis or amputation, anything from becoming blind or even removing sexual organs. And many arrange "accidents" to achieve their goal, the report states.

Ironically, it is noted that the transgender community is very resistant to these people and have become very judgmental towards them, viewing them as dishonest.

If this all sounds like the perfect combination for an episode of Jerry Springer, well, it was: