i understand where these “be careful wearing your binder” posts are coming from, but y’all, i think we need to be a bit more alarmist about this. if you are sick, ever, even with the common cold, you should not bind during or immediately after being sick. right now, especially if you’re self-monitoring for symptoms, you should not be binding unless it is a safety issue.
i know dysphoria sucks but it’d be a hell of a lot worse for you to experience heightened symptoms and be at higher risk—particularly in a time where health care resources are limited. i don’t bind regularly anyway for health reasons but i’m definitely not doing so until after the coronavirus situation calms down, and we as a community need to seriously promote pausing binding to the extent that is at all safely possible
