hi ari sorry to bother you! came to ask about top surgery (specifically double incision) and overbinding
i keep seeing people say that overbinding can disqualify you from getting top surgery (if that’s true then i am. um. royally fucked and probably going to die) and from what i know it can only disqualify you from getting certain kinds due to skin elasticity? like i’m getting double incision no matter what because i got cursed with possible DDs (havent checked would rather die) but this is freaking me out. question summarized: can overbinding disqualify you from getting a double incision mastectomy
also does overbinding with the correct size binder and not sleeping in it have the same health risks as overbinding with a too-small binder/sleeping in it?? idk man this talk of me not being able to get top surgery is fucking with me
Not as far as I'm aware, no.
Yes. Binding too much in any way automatically puts you at higher risk for damage from it.
As someone who has watched many trans Native brothers disappear from the community without even a word or report, I genuinely despise the white trans women who want to say that they're somehow oppressed by Native trans men and trans men of color. At least your death will be passed around in the wider community and you'll have people defending you. Meanwhile I'll never see the greatest people in my life again because the government will never acknowledge the disappearances of Indigenous folk. Because unless their fellow Native trans siblings and family say something, none of you give a shit. There is no privilege in being treated like you never existed to begin with.
Today I wanted to talk about Kyle Bassinga. Kyle was a 21 year old man from Georgia, whose family described him as "a kind, thoughtful, and smart young man who loved nature, music, and the people around him". Kyle Bassinga was killed on February 18th 2026, just ten days after his birthday. He was found hanging from a tree in a park.
The police ruled it a suicide. The family and local community demanded an investigation. The police refused to change their ruling.
I know this website it too white for this to really go anywhere, but an understanding of the present reality of white supremacy in the United States is just so important to transfeminism here. Lynchings never stopped, white supremacy never went away, you just stopped looking.
Juliana Nzita, A 16 year old Black girl, was just found hanging from a tree on church grounds in Charlotte, NC. Police have ruled it a suicide, despite hanging ourselves from trees being like the one communally agreed way Black folks ain’t killing ourselves.
Every time I go on Twitter or Facebook I learn about another recent lynching or missing Black person going mostly unreported. Half the reason I keep an active account on either of those sites is because they’re the only place I can find out about the violence happening to Black and Trans people reasonably quickly.
But I do need y’all to know that Black folks are currently, actively, being disappeared and lynched—if they even find our bodies. Black girls are and have been more often stolen into human trafficking, especially if they’re immigrants, but I’ve been seeing new news of probable lynchings every other day. Shit is worse than you think it is right now, tumblr just too white of a site to care lol
Usually it’s ruled a suicide because cops or people affiliated with cops/prisons/legal system like lawyers or prosecutors did it then buried the body on land belonging to one of those organizations, such as I noted here: in this thread, where over 200 bodies were found buried behind a jail since 2016:
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Non-Black and/or non-US based people often wonder why so many left-leaning Black folks in the US try to operate alternate justice systems within smaller community such as restorative justice, transformative justice, etc. when “all over the world, activists and their ancestors have fought for access to legal systems like this” and this is why.
Our legal system is explicitly designed to kill and enslave Black people. Our legal system from the cops to the lawyers and courts (one of the few times we got justice) to the prisons is legalized slavery where prisons are privatized and corporations are encouraged to maximize their profit by incentivizing every part of this system to hold as many people as possible.
Black folks can be proven innocent after years of time in prison or on death row and still killed by the state or dying in prison because the goal was never justice, it was to keep culling and controlling the Black population.
And outside of the system, we are lynched, raped, abused, trafficked, and robbed by those involved in our legal system, lives often irreparably destroyed, entire lives disappeared with no justice because that is the point, not a flaw. It’s almost always those in the legal system or their families and friends doing this, so that it can be ruled a suicide or a runaway or intracommunity issues and swept away.
So when we look to justice systems that do not throw away a life of any human, it is because we do not wish to see them enslaved, murdered, raped, abused, etc. at the hands of the state, because that is what WILL happen here in the US. We become abolitionists because we see that the alternative option is to allow others to become enslaved. Because it’s a minimum we can do when 95% of the time there will be no justice for us no matter what.
Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.
Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.
Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.
Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.
Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.
Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.
I wish I could make white people(and not just white Americans) understand how diverse the pre-columbian Americas were. The history, religion, culture, politics was at least as complex as Europe's. There was the full gamut of religions, from monotheists to animists to ancestral religions. There were city building empires, village farmers, nomadic traders, and so many other ways to live. This is all just based on what we know, the fragments left behind and the stories of survivors of an apocalyptic plague. All this before the most extended campaign of genocide in history was waged in an attempt to wipe out those survivors.
Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.
Do you understand how much poorer our whole species is because of it? Can you imagine where art, religion, and science would be if we still had these vast bodies of knowledge? The stain of the colonial project will never be fully washed clean. We owe more than just the land to those we stole from. We owe them a whole future, a future that could have been brighter for all of us. If only greed and fear weren't allowed to rule this land.
the amount of hate anons and messages trans women and transfems could get simply for not wanting to take a part in pushing down trans men and transmascs is so disgusting. bc those people (tma/tme users and transandrophobia deniers) would claim to put trans women and transfems above everyone else but turn around and harass them the second they dont agree with their posts. its pathetic. shout out to every trans woman and transfem who is supportive of all trans siblings!!!
“you bind incorrectly” yeah i have big tits and binding any other way makes them obvious, yeah it’s gonna cause damage yeah it’s not smart but i value being seen as a man more then my health.
"oh you shouldn't wear two binders at once" "oh you need to take break days and not bind for more than 10 hours a day" like okay i have DDD tits and don't live alone so I don't really get a choice. i'm the one sitting here with costochondritis because of how i bind, trust me i know it's bad for me, but you know what would be worse? killing myself.
GIRL LUNCH! (YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A GIRL! IF YOU ARE NOT A FEMALE...just like put your gender instead of 'girl')
My girl lunch is a banana split and coke!
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Usually a meat stick and whatever else I have time to grab. Like gushers or something and occasionally pizza and then whatever is in my water bottle that day
I'm not for kink shaming but I'm gonna be real detrans and misgendering kinks can very easily be pipelines to groom trans men into detransitioning in real life. I feel like it comes from the isolation of being transmasc, and how we're only seen as desirable when we're performing femininity (you know the common story of young tboys being groomed by older cis guys who don't see them as men so they detransition? Doesn't it seem familiar?), especially performing femininity sexually. You either keep it very strictly fantasy and make sure you've got everything under control or you're at a pretty high risk of getting groomed.
yeah no you're not wrong about that. i'm lightly into detrans myself and there is absolutely an element of that going on and it's something that people need to be aware of. like with any kink that has ties to dubious consent or real world elements of life, you have to engage with it carefully to keep yourself safe.
the fact that SOME trans women and fems are enbyphobic and transmisandrist doesn't give ANYONE the right to misgender them, deadname them, or be otherwise transphobic/transmisogynistic.
i saw someone call a trans woman a "shemab" for holding those opinions, and that's not something we do here, folks!!! i won't tolerate that!!!
at the end of the day, trans women are our sisters and we should strive to be in community with them, as long as they show mutual respect. but name-calling and such behavior is NEVER acceptable.
Has anyone else noticed the "read Whipping Girl" posts and comments have exponentially died down since this statement from Julia Serano was spread around recently.
It also feels like people have gotten more aggressive and hostile since then.
Maybe I've just blocked so many people I don't see it anymore but it really seems that people started going silent about Whipping Girl after seeing this :pp
My 2007 book Whipping Girl is probably best known for two things: It popularized “cis” terminology (which I did not coin) and introduced…
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