Transgender and gender nonbinary people may experience gender dysphoria when they compare how they present themselves with their gender identity. Chest binding has become a popular practice to make a ...

Binding, also known as chest or breast binding, is the process of compressing or reducing chest tissue. Binding aims to make a person’s chest look flatter. Binders are safe to use as long as they fit ...

Kobabe (e/eir/em) is author of the award-winning and bestselling memoir Gender Queer, the most challenged book in America for the last three years. Peitzmeier Ph.D., MSPH (she/her) is a social ...

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, 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 ...