have you managed to collect money for your transition? i paid pretty much for it and i wonder what happened
Anonymous
Hi! Thank you so much for your contribution! I managed to collect enough to pay for psycholgist but unfortunately I wasn’t able to raise more than 13% of my goal, so my other transition goals must wait for now.
my boyfriend and i are slowly getting out of financial trouble and weve been doing a tiny bit better lately. its still very hard to manage all the expenses tho and any amount of support would be extremely helpful right now, which is why i wanted to let yall know ive opened a ko-fi account.
this website is literally incredible like u need to constantly walk on egg shells in order to avoid someone having an issue w you & i don’t mean that in the anti sjw way i mean like i reblogged a pic of a fat cat & got accused of normalizing animal abuse
i own a proper binder that fits me well and is the right size, i’m generally fairly good at only keeping the binder on 8 hours at a time and i typically break from binding at least twice during the week.
that being said-
i still get back pain that will keep me up in the night, my ribs ache and feel compressed and almost moved slightly out of place at the end of the day and i do often experience sharp stabbing pains that don’t go away even with the binder removed.
and yes!!! that is with binding safe and properly- because binders are basically a medical compression shirt that squeezes your ribs and lungs and even with ‘safe’ binding there’s not really away to completely avoid the negative side effects of binding.
another thing is that my ‘chest’ sags considerably more than it did before now that i bind regularly
none of these things are cute and quirky, the pain and disfigurement is not a fashion statement and this is the reality of trans men that people don’t talk about enough
Try to keep your binder off as long as you can/it is possiblr for you. If you’re at home, try to prefer baggy clothes not to see your chest rather than binding.