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