auntiewanda:

c-the-truscum:

auntiewanda:

c-the-truscum:

auntiewanda:

c-the-truscum:

auntiewanda:

appropriately-inappropriate:

c-the-truscum:

appropriately-inappropriate:

c-the-truscum:

politicalfemale:

anotherlilpizzamyheart:

billnihilism:

We really have harmed a whole generation of trans and gnc children by failing to communicate how serious a decision binding actually is, how there’s no ACTUALLY safe way to bind, how it permeneantly damages the body, how it can make top surgery more difficult in the future. I don’t think we should be keeping trans kids from binding (we let kids do all sorts of things they’re really not old enough to understand the potential consequences of) but we owe them the ability to make informed decisions at LEAST

@slavz the fuck are you doing this is a transphobic take. my own trans specialist told me its not unsafe, it might just stretch out the skin and make it more difficult to perform surgery on, which is why you shouldnt bind all the time but theres zero harm if you rest enough between wears

Your specialist is dangerously misinformed and you should let them know so that they don’t risk the health of other trans people. There are nonbinary and trans men on this site who will talk to you about the dangers of binding – here is glumshoe’s post about it. They suffered reduced lung capacity, a slipped rib, and nerve damage from binding, and even six months after they stopped binding, they haven’t fully recovered.

Please don’t downplay the damage binding can do just because it’s inconvenient to think about! I understand that binding can be an effective stopgap measure for treating dysphoria, but the fact is that compressing your entire ribcage for hours, day after day, has the potential for serious consequences, even if you bind “responsibly.”

Just don’t forget that yes there’s risks even when binding responsibly, but it’s a lot less risky to bind when you’re doing it safely than it is when you’re not being safe. I can’t tell you how much worse feeling it is when I sleep in a binder compared to when I bind for only 8 hours. I personally haven’t had any bad reactions to binding other than some sharp pains and back aches but it’s still good to be cautious.

Those back aches are the binder compressing your spinal nerves and torquing your back, and those chest pains are ribs being contorted out of position.

You should probably get that shit checked.

No way man lmao if I go to a doctor they’ll tell me to stop binding

Which would be medically appropriate, given the symptoms you just described.

Look, you have one of two options: your symptoms tell me your binder has already done damage.

You can address your hangups and work with your doctor — even if it’s not what you want — in order to forestall future health problems or;

You can ignore your symptoms — which is what you’re doing — until they become a crisis.

Either way, you will have to stop binding… either now, while you still have your health, or later, when you don’t.

If you’re mature enough to transition, you’re mature enough to confront the health issues head on.

“Other than some sharp pains”. @c-the-truscum That’s not good. At all. That’s not something to wave off as unimportant. If your subculture is encouraging you to do something you know your doctor would tell you to stop doing you may want to stop and have a think about what’s actually good for you here.

My subculture isn’t encouraging me to do shit. I tell them my ribs hurt, they say I need to bind less. I bind less, my ribs hurt less. But that doesn’t mean I need a doctor to tell me that I need to stop binding because binding is mentally good for me. Binding takes away this disgusting constant “this shouldn’t be here” thought and I can feel free and happy. And that’s my game plan until I get top surgery.

I’ve been binding for 3 years, I know what I’m doing.

You’re in pain, you know a doctor would tell you to stop, and is it even mentally good for you? It doesn’t address the root of your hated for your own body. Neither will surgery. All it does is cover up the problem while worsening your health. It’s self-harm. 

Binding isn’t self harm. Binding unsafely to inflict harm on yourself isn’t self harm. And yes transitioning will absolutely help me out. Do I need to show you the proof that top surgery and bottom surgery and testosterone are good for trans men? Cause I just started testosterone yesterday and I’m already starting to feel better. And yes binding is mentally good for me because I feel much better when I do it. And if you compare it to cutting or some shit I’m sorry but you’re a moron. It’s a short term plan to substitute for the long term plan of top surgery. That’s all.

There is no such thing as “safe binding”. You already know this because you’re experiencing pain and side effects despite saying you know what you’re doing. 

How about this FTM website that shows how bad excess testosterone is for a female body: http://www.ftmguide.org/tandhealth.html

You’re looking a higher blood pressure, increased risk of heart disease, increased risk of liver disease, loss of feeling in extremities among many other health risks. 

Did you know that if you artificially induce excess testosterone in your body you’ll have to have a hysterectomy within about 5 years or else your uterus will become necrotic? A doctor may have been able to tell you that.

And “top surgery” itself comes with numerous health risks: https://www.genderconfirmation.com/complications-and-tradeoffs/

And for what? Because you hate your body? Because you know men are treated better in society? 

Everything has health risks. I’m fully aware of the affects that testosterone has thanks lmao. Also no I’m doing this to treat my mental illness in the only way science knows how. I am a boy who was born as a girl and I’m doing what I can to fix that and frankly I don’t think it’s any of your business lmao

Except it isn’t “the only way science knows how”. It’s a mental illness. Why are you unnecessarily altering your body to the detriment of your own health for a mental illness?

Do doctors help anorexics starve themselves? Do they amputate the limbs of people suffering from somatoparaphrenia? 

Something is very wrong with the attitude toward people feeling body dysmorphia about their sex or sex characteristics. Talk to other dysphoric women. Talk to detransitioned women. The approach of “treating” this mental illness by enabling the symptoms with damaging drugs and surgery is unethical and regressive. This stuff won’t make you male, because that’s impossible, it will just make you reliant on medical care for the rest of your life.

You don’t need fixing, society’s attitude toward the sexes does.

auntiewanda:

c-the-truscum:

auntiewanda:

c-the-truscum:

auntiewanda:

c-the-truscum:

auntiewanda:

appropriately-inappropriate:

c-the-truscum:

appropriately-inappropriate:

c-the-truscum:

politicalfemale:

anotherlilpizzamyheart:

billnihilism:

We really have harmed a whole generation of trans and gnc children by failing to communicate how serious a decision binding actually is, how there’s no ACTUALLY safe way to bind, how it permeneantly damages the body, how it can make top surgery more difficult in the future. I don’t think we should be keeping trans kids from binding (we let kids do all sorts of things they’re really not old enough to understand the potential consequences of) but we owe them the ability to make informed decisions at LEAST

@slavz the fuck are you doing this is a transphobic take. my own trans specialist told me its not unsafe, it might just stretch out the skin and make it more difficult to perform surgery on, which is why you shouldnt bind all the time but theres zero harm if you rest enough between wears

Your specialist is dangerously misinformed and you should let them know so that they don’t risk the health of other trans people. There are nonbinary and trans men on this site who will talk to you about the dangers of binding – here is glumshoe’s post about it. They suffered reduced lung capacity, a slipped rib, and nerve damage from binding, and even six months after they stopped binding, they haven’t fully recovered.

Please don’t downplay the damage binding can do just because it’s inconvenient to think about! I understand that binding can be an effective stopgap measure for treating dysphoria, but the fact is that compressing your entire ribcage for hours, day after day, has the potential for serious consequences, even if you bind “responsibly.”

Just don’t forget that yes there’s risks even when binding responsibly, but it’s a lot less risky to bind when you’re doing it safely than it is when you’re not being safe. I can’t tell you how much worse feeling it is when I sleep in a binder compared to when I bind for only 8 hours. I personally haven’t had any bad reactions to binding other than some sharp pains and back aches but it’s still good to be cautious.

Those back aches are the binder compressing your spinal nerves and torquing your back, and those chest pains are ribs being contorted out of position.

You should probably get that shit checked.

No way man lmao if I go to a doctor they’ll tell me to stop binding

Which would be medically appropriate, given the symptoms you just described.

Look, you have one of two options: your symptoms tell me your binder has already done damage.

You can address your hangups and work with your doctor — even if it’s not what you want — in order to forestall future health problems or;

You can ignore your symptoms — which is what you’re doing — until they become a crisis.

Either way, you will have to stop binding… either now, while you still have your health, or later, when you don’t.

If you’re mature enough to transition, you’re mature enough to confront the health issues head on.

“Other than some sharp pains”. @c-the-truscum That’s not good. At all. That’s not something to wave off as unimportant. If your subculture is encouraging you to do something you know your doctor would tell you to stop doing you may want to stop and have a think about what’s actually good for you here.

My subculture isn’t encouraging me to do shit. I tell them my ribs hurt, they say I need to bind less. I bind less, my ribs hurt less. But that doesn’t mean I need a doctor to tell me that I need to stop binding because binding is mentally good for me. Binding takes away this disgusting constant “this shouldn’t be here” thought and I can feel free and happy. And that’s my game plan until I get top surgery.

I’ve been binding for 3 years, I know what I’m doing.

You’re in pain, you know a doctor would tell you to stop, and is it even mentally good for you? It doesn’t address the root of your hated for your own body. Neither will surgery. All it does is cover up the problem while worsening your health. It’s self-harm. 

Binding isn’t self harm. Binding unsafely to inflict harm on yourself isn’t self harm. And yes transitioning will absolutely help me out. Do I need to show you the proof that top surgery and bottom surgery and testosterone are good for trans men? Cause I just started testosterone yesterday and I’m already starting to feel better. And yes binding is mentally good for me because I feel much better when I do it. And if you compare it to cutting or some shit I’m sorry but you’re a moron. It’s a short term plan to substitute for the long term plan of top surgery. That’s all.

There is no such thing as “safe binding”. You already know this because you’re experiencing pain and side effects despite saying you know what you’re doing. 

How about this FTM website that shows how bad excess testosterone is for a female body: http://www.ftmguide.org/tandhealth.html

You’re looking a higher blood pressure, increased risk of heart disease, increased risk of liver disease, loss of feeling in extremities among many other health risks. 

Did you know that if you artificially induce excess testosterone in your body you’ll have to have a hysterectomy within about 5 years or else your uterus will become necrotic? A doctor may have been able to tell you that.

And “top surgery” itself comes with numerous health risks: https://www.genderconfirmation.com/complications-and-tradeoffs/

And for what? Because you hate your body? Because you know men are treated better in society? 

Everything has health risks. I’m fully aware of the affects that testosterone has thanks lmao. Also no I’m doing this to treat my mental illness in the only way science knows how. I am a boy who was born as a girl and I’m doing what I can to fix that and frankly I don’t think it’s any of your business lmao

Except it isn’t “the only way science knows how”. It’s a mental illness. Why are you unnecessarily altering your body to the detriment of your own health for a mental illness?

Do doctors help anorexics starve themselves? Do they amputate the limbs of people suffering from somatoparaphrenia? 

Something is very wrong with the attitude toward people feeling body dysmorphia about their sex or sex characteristics. Talk to other dysphoric women. Talk to detransitioned women. The approach of “treating” this mental illness by enabling the symptoms with damaging drugs and surgery is unethical and regressive. This stuff won’t make you male, because that’s impossible, it will just make you reliant on medical care for the rest of your life.

You don’t need fixing, society’s attitude toward the sexes does.