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{{Content warning|talk about breasts. This article uses anatomically correct language for breasts, to avoid confusion. Might not be a good thing to read at a time when one feels sensitive about one's body or one's gender issues. Some talk about risk of injury and infection}} | {{Content warning|talk about breasts. This article uses anatomically correct language for breasts, to avoid confusion. Might not be a good thing to read at a time when one feels sensitive about one's body or one's gender issues. Some talk about risk of injury and infection}} | ||
{{Disclaimer|This article is meant to help make it less likely that the reader hurts themself by binding in unhealthy ways. However, this wiki won't be held responsible for it if someone does get hurt by binding. Please use your own sense to make your own decisions.}} | {{Disclaimer|This article is meant to help make it less likely that the reader hurts themself by binding in unhealthy ways. However, this wiki won't be held responsible for it if someone does get hurt by binding. Please use your own sense to make your own decisions.}} | ||
'''Binding''' | '''Binding''' refers to a variety of methods that a person can use to flatten their breast tissue. Usually, this means wearing an undergarment called a binder. Binding involves risk of permanent change to the breasts, and injury to other parts of the body, so this article will focus on how to mitigate those risks. | ||
Binding is practiced by many kinds of people: [[transgender men]] who haven't had [[top surgery]] (meaning bilateral mastectomy, in this case called FTM chest reconstruction), [[cisgender men]] with breasts (gynecomastia), [[drag]] kings (performing artists who do a male impersonation act), [[transgender women]] in situations where they need to look male (such as early in transition, with people they haven't [[coming out|come out]] to yet), and some [[nonbinary]] people who want an [[androgynous]] look. Because this is a temporary effect, some [[transgender]] and [[gender non-conforming]] people either bind their breasts or wear [[breast prostheses]] at different times. This is one solution for [[genderfluid]] people who wouldn't be satisfied with the permanence of surgery or [[hormone therapy]]. | Binding is practiced by many kinds of people: [[transgender men]] who haven't had [[top surgery]] (meaning bilateral mastectomy, in this case called FTM chest reconstruction), [[cisgender men]] with breasts (gynecomastia), [[drag]] kings (performing artists who do a male impersonation act), [[transgender women]] in situations where they need to look male (such as early in transition, with people they haven't [[coming out|come out]] to yet), and some [[nonbinary]] people who want an [[androgynous]] look. Because this is a temporary effect, some [[transgender]] and [[gender non-conforming]] people either bind their breasts or wear [[breast prostheses]] at different times. This is one solution for [[genderfluid]] people who wouldn't be satisfied with the permanence of surgery or [[hormone therapy]]. | ||