Chest binding flattens your chest to create a masculine or non-binary appearance. Since breasts are seen as a traditionally feminine characteristic, chest binding can help individuals alleviate gender ...

People who use binders report symptoms like back and chest pain, overheating and shortness of breath. By Amy Sohn It used to be that when a 13-year-old wanted a binder for school, it meant a trip to ...

Bella Ramsey says she wore a chest binder 90% of the time while filming 'The Last of Us.' Some trans and nonbinary people bind to appear more typically masculine or androgynous. If not worn properly, ...

The actor, who uses she/they pronouns, detailed their experience of using a chest binder for the first time in an Instagram post Monday and emphasized the importance of doing it safely. Chest binding ...

Chest binders are a common first step to explore gender identity. Restricting them could push people back to unsafe DIY ...

Chest binding, or wearing anything to flatten the chest in order to appear masculine or androgynous, is one of many ways that transmasculine and nonbinary people can affirm their gender identity and ...

Binding your chest can be a way to manage gender dysphoria, feel more comfortable in your skin, or stay safer in an increasingly transphobic world. For those unfamiliar, binding refers to flattening ...

Frances Reed became an expert in healthy chest binding practices so no one else would have to endure what they did to feel like themselves. The following is an excerpt from “Healthy Chest Binding for ...

Chest binding is arguably one of the easiest, cheapest, and least permanently-body-affecting ways for assigned female at birth (AFAB), transgender, or gender nonconforming people to express their ...

Binding is about loving the way you look and feel, but finding an approach that works for you is a series of balancing acts: between compression and comfort, between the full-coverage of your favorite ...

Chest binding (also known as breast binding) is designed to minimize the appearance of a person’s breasts and create the appearance of a flatter chest. Binding is used by transgender, non-binary, and ...