You're not alone

Here is your chance to exercise your allyship. Sign this petition. It can be very, very difficult for people who bind to get access to effective binders. They often resort to harmful things (like tape) that can break their ribs or suffocate them. 

if you use a GC2B binder and the shoulder straps wear out, you can sew the back of the strap to the front and make it last a little while longer - I have absolutely no sewing experience and I managed to fix mine so it worked just as new without having to spend money on a new one

“Vice reports: 

On a scale of zero to six, where zero signified “completely straight” and six meant “completely homosexual,” more than a third of the young demographic chose a number between one and five, indicating that they were bisexual to some degree. Only 24 percent of their older counterparts identified this way.

When it comes to gender, over a third of Generation Z (as I guess we have to call them now)  strongly agreed that gender did not define a person as much as it used to - only 28 percent of millennials felt similarly. Over half, 56 percent, of Gen Z said that they knew someone who went by gender neutral pronouns such as “they,” “them,” or “ze,” compared to 43 percent of people 28 to 34.

Gen Z’s perspectives on gender also extends to their wardrobe. Whereas 54 percent of millennials always bought clothes designed for their own gender, that number drops to 44 percent when it comes to teens. They also overwhelmingly support gender neutral bathrooms, with 70 percent in favor, versus 57 percent of millennials.

But for kids these days, embracing a queer identity while rejecting the gender binary is less a trend and more a reflection of growing up in a world with unprecedented access to information and communities, at a time when the concept of identity is open to interpretation.” 

Read more about the study at Vice.”

If any of you are ever feeling dysphoric about looking too young or having a baby face, just look at Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

Those “Les Lesbian Tomboy Chest Binders” that yourmanwatson recommended are actually basically just as bad as ACE bandages. Sorry the link is a little FTM-centric, but it’s got the important information. http://for-transmen.tumblr.com/post/95885023260/if-youve-been-looking-to-bind-whether-youre I know it’s a struggle between dysphoria and money, but the risk of injury isn’t worth it in my opinion.

(Sent as fanmail, so name not included just in case they’d rather be anon)