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Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

2. Never use ace bandages/belts/tape/etc to bind.

3. Do not sleep in your binder.

4. Do not wear your binder for long periods of time.  I’ve seen 8 hours mentioned as the max amount of time.  Learn to read your body.  Some people cannot handle binding for even 8 hours but ignore the signs and injure themselves.

5. Whenever you take your binder off give a few big coughs, this well help to break up any fluid that may have settled in your lungs.

when i was young and stupid, I used duct tape to bind. NEVER EVER DO THIS CHILDREN. i couldn’t breathe, i could barely move, it cut into me so hard that sometimes i bled, it was so hot i got blisters, i would sometimes cry because of how much pain i was in, and it left my breasts numb in some places because of how tight it was. It killed nerve endings in my chest.

GC2B is pretty standard nowadays, they’re breathable and they go on and come off so much easier than Underworks ever did

Transtape is another option, this does NOT go all the way around your ribcage!!! It may be difficult to use if you have sensitive skin because it is an adhesive, to protect your nipples you fold a square of toilet paper and that on with a little piece. To put it on you lean forward, swoop ‘em to the side and stick (use more as needed) this can be used to go swimming and shower and is sleep safe*

DONT buy cheap binders off of amazon!!!! The materials will not move with you, they will restrict your ribs (and the sizing charts often suck ass) which means you can get hurt and will have to take a break from binding to heal!!

You don’t want to take a break from binding because it gives you the relief and comfort you need to function??? THEN PLEASE BE SAFE!!! The safer you are the more often you will be able to do it.

For those of you who can’t afford or cannot safely get a binder at this time:

sports bras are your friends, the ones without padding. Double up, one forward one back.

We all know hoodies help, but it gets hot as fuck in the summer

Compression shirt, they’ve got them for swimming and working out

TUMBLR ADS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO AUTO-PLAY AUDIO! THAT IS A BUG AND YOU SHOULD REPORT IT!

"This ad is auto-playing audio" is literally on the drop down menu for reporting an ad. Tumblr isn't trying to implement this! Don't protest this "new policy", cause it's not one.

Report the broken ads.

This is all bugs or malicious advertising which is also against tumblers ad policy. You should report all ads which do this.

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