thesassymunchkin:

heels-down-kick-on:

pugbutch:

deirdrearchleone:

soloveitchik:

Tbh I know no form of binding is actually really “safe” but I feel like some of the messages communicating this feel… Fearmongery. Trans and butch people that bind know it’s not Good for us but binding in the safest way possible helps to alleviate dysphoria and it’s like there’s a weird moralism in it like. You’re all a MENACE for your unsafe gender practices. Trans and butch people are going to continue to bind, communicating the safest ways to do so is actually a good thing. The sort of backlash this got feels like: don’t you know you need to be OKAY with your body for which I am the moral authority of its health and safety?

Not to get galaxy brain but people don’t talk about underwire bras and high heels like they talk about binding + hormones + surgery 🤔 there’s a difference between being honest and upfront about the risks and then there’s uhhh what a lot of people do, which is try to scare you out of it or present it as a last case scenario only

I feel this when people tell me not to wear sports bras 24/7…even a single well-fitting one…even non-compression ones. How can it possibly be worse than sleeping in an underwire bra? “It puts pressure on your ribs” Probably, but so does underwire? The 8 hour rule, while probably good sense, also has absolutely no medical backing. While the medical community has largely failed to figure out what is a risk, lesbians and transmasc people are guilted for taking any risks.

In the spirit of putting out real, data-backed information on binding: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27300085

and here’s one more in case you aren’t subscribed to that journal:

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/7xzpxx/chest-binding-health-project-inside-landmark-overdue-transgender-study

This is one of the first, if not THE first large study done on binding that comes at it from a surprisingly respectful angle. And the results are pretty important:

The 8 hour rule isn’t medically backed, as the person above me said, but in addition what IS backed is taking full days off from binding.

So its waaaay more important to let yourself have 1 or 2 days, maybe the days you just stay home from work or school, to not bind and that can have a much stronger positive impact on your health. 

Binding isn’t IDEAL but no one really does it for fun, and if you can strike the right balance between wearing a properly fitting binder, or even better a sports bra, and taking breaks throughout the week, and trying not to bind over 10 hours, then you can mitigate the risks inherent with binding a great deal.

Also! If people are so concerned with trans people’s health why aren’t they concerned about the mental toll that dysphoria has on a person?

Same reason people fat shame for “health reasons” but don’t seem to care what that does to a fat person’s psyche.

If people can construe that trans-ness is bad for your health of course they will. It’s because they’re transphobic.