The binding methods we’re told not to do
About a decade ago, before he was outed as scamming his audience, Chase Ross was one of the biggest transmasc youtubers. In one if his early videos he had a skit where he was binding with tape (on his bare skin) to poke fun at the action and then immediately follow up by telling his audience of mostly young trans guys that we shouldn’t do that. He was, of course, post top surgery in this video. I don’t bring this up to shame Ross, I have no interest in beating a dead horse, and his videos were very helpful to me in my early years after coming out. I bring this up to discuss that how even among our own community, unhealthy binding became the butt of many jokes, because you can and should just buy a gc2b binder. But what happens when our access to binders is attacked, when they’re treated like “dangerous medical objects”? When the geriatric cis men in power are concerned about “young girls’ breasts”? Perhaps we need to make like our trans elders and remind them that there’s always duct t...
