Her condition is a genetic disorder, which is a kind of disease. The deaf 'community' consists of many kinds of deafness, some are not diseases, others are. Some of those diseases cannot be cured, others are trivial to cure.
In the same way there are many different kinds of cough, some due to diseases, others not, some curable, others not, yet no one pretends it's offensive to talk about curing a cough. This weird excessive sensitivity to language accomplishes nothing.
In the same way there are many different kinds of cough, some due to diseases, others not, some curable, others not, yet no one pretends it's offensive to talk about curing a cough. This weird excessive sensitivity to language accomplishes nothing.