Hey guys, it's Wednesdays with Chaseypoo and today we are talking about 'is binding dangerous?'
Now, this topic...
...is interesting. I would like someone to compile me saying "now, this is a topic..."
because I always feel like I do that in my videos. Yes, I'm fondling my wiener leave me alone.
So I'm wearing the shirt on purpose. Yes. I wore it last week, but whatever.
'Does this shirt make me look flat?' because binders if you'd like to buy this shirt,
You can buy at ftmtranstastic.threadless.com, link in the description.
So I binded for like 5 years before I had top surgery. Um...
Binding can be dangerous if you don't do it properly. There is no form of binding that will ever be 100% safe for you,
But there are certain precautions that you can take in order to make sure that you bind
In a way that won't affect you later on.
This is going to be my personal opinion, okay?
And I know some of you are going to be mad at me for saying this stuff
And I'm just going to say it. Some people have been binding with K- tape.
K-tape is used for athletes, or any [stuttering]
Injuries or any type of injury.
And it's uh, kinesiology tape and the way that it's used is like
It... you can stretch it and then when you put it on the skin it kind of like bounce back
So it kind of pulls things together.
This is used to treat injuries and now people have been using it on their chest
who are smaller chested people like people who are like...
As and some Bs... to pull their- ow fuck my nipple ring- [laughing] to pull their of their chest this way
So they're putting the tape that way, and I've seen a bunch of videos of people doing it. Look...
My personal opinion as somebody who uses K-tape for injuries,
This is not... I would not recommend it, okay.
I saw a thread on Facebook and on...
Um... on reddit from the company saying that you could do it
But- and I feel like a lot of people aren't looking at the but because the but is a big thing-
This tape is meant to staying on you for like three days.
Even if you take a shower. So can you imagine,
Binding for three days- don't do that because going to constrict your ribs, even if you're going this way, okay?
That means that you need to take it off at night
Take it off, okay
This tape is very
very sticky this can cause lesions and they can cause a fungal infection if you keep it on for too long because
bacterial will grow around there, and then if you have lesions, and then- it's just... it's...
It's like a recipe for an infection, and it just freaks me out. I really don't like that
I'm not saying that you doing this will cause huge problems in the future
I'm just saying it's... I don't think that it's... it's recommended at all
that people who are using it, they're not wrapping it around their body in the back
It's really just they're putting tape like here and then putting tape like here.
I just I can't... I don't know, for me, it's just I'm really uncomfortable with it. It's not...
Something that you should be using to bind your chest.
It is something that you should be using to treat injuries.
And I get that people are using it to do other things, and that's like great for them man
Just to me it just makes me feel uncomfortable
and I really don't want people to be hurt.
Now if we're going to talk about other things binding safely,
There are two binder companies that I would recommend.
I recommend Underworks, which is a binder company that I went with. I had the tr-top binder.
And then there is also- and that's like the most well known one I guess- and now there is GC2B
Now that company
I believe is the best one on the market.
I unfortunately had top surgery before I was able to try these binders so I can't actually tell you how I feel but,
I think I've only seen maybe one or two negative reviews out of hundreds for the GC2B binders
And I actually do binder giveaways on my channel every month.
I give away 30 binders from GC2B and everybody seems to love them.
Um, I get like 2,000 people trying to get a binder every month in the first week
So I think people are really needing binders and people are really interested in
Um, these binders, especially because it is made by somebody who is non-binary
and somebody who is in America.
So people are really just into that I guess. But other than that, binding safely, okay?
I don't know. Why they say like it's
Recommended to only bind for 8 hours a day, don't bind for more than 16 hours a day,
nothing like that
Because you shouldn't be binding anyways
But if you're going to do it the safest way to do it is- please don't bind more than 8 hours a day.
And I know that that's hard and you might be like 'Chase, you don't know what it feels like' trust me
it feels like I've been binding... I feel like yesterday was when I started binding and I was binding forever and
it feels like
Like I remember
what it feels like to bind just because I've had top surgery doesn't mean I don't remember the trauma that I had with binding and
I would go 12 to 16 hours a day
Because I would be out of the house for so long and it's just very uncomfortable
So what I would recommend doing is there are certain exercises that you can do for your lungs, okay?
If you're going to bind for that many hours a day- which I don't recommend but you're still going to do it-
And please only bind with one binder. Okay? I know this is a lot of information all at once
I'm telling you what not to do, but please Jesus Christ bind with one binder
And you can just layer up with some shirts if you'd like
That's what I used to do because I had them big old titties. I had like I had like... I had like big C's okay, if you wanna know.
And do some lo- do some very deep breaths when you take off your binder.
Because a lot of people when you [laughing] when you realize with these when
You have top surgery and you're all healed you realize that you breathe...
differently because when you wear a binder you learn to constrict your breathing to
smaller breaths
[inhales] and then when you have top surgery you can have bigger breaths like that,
and then it just takes a while, so I would recommend
Exercising your lungs and taking some very deep breaths in and out when you take off your binder so that you can at least breathe.
So take some deep breaths is basically 'How do you bind safely?'
That's my thing for today anyways, I'm going to leave it at that because I'm sure other people on transtastic
are going to have a lot of different um... things to say as well
So I'm going to leave it to them, and I will see you guys soon. Have a great week. Bye!