Thanks! I wear it loose enough so that I don't feel it restricts my breathing at all - I'm a singer and an actor, mostly musical theatre, and it doesn't impede my singing, breathing, or acting at all. I used to train in opera and that needs a lot of breath, but I did it while binding without trouble. I don't bind over the stomach area, and apparently my chest looks male enough with loose binding because I pass 100%, people are usually surprised when they find out I'm trans.
As an actor there are often backstage costume changes and such and unfortunately due to binding I don't feel entirely comfortable changing with the guys, usually I change in a separate room, but I auditioned for a theatre school in March and changed with the guys for the first time. They just saw my binder. No one said anything. I want top surgery though, so I can go bare chested.
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Bipolar I with psychotic features/GAD/Transgender (male pronouns please)
Seroquel/Abilify/Risperidone/Testosterone
My Bipolar Poetry Anthology
Underneath this skin there's a human
Buried deep within there's a human
And despite everything I'm still human
I think that I'm still human
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