BBC Three cheering for binders

Oh, your ribs are popping out and you can’t breathe? Well try this other binder.

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7 responses to “BBC Three cheering for binders”

  1. Mostly Cloudy Avatar
    Mostly Cloudy

    How is chest binding any different from the poor Chinese women getting their feet bound?

    https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/lasting-damage-foot-binding/606439/

  2. Nullius in Verba Avatar
    Nullius in Verba

    Hot take: maybe the appropriate thing for doctors to maximize is patient health.

  3. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    You’d think, wouldn’t you.

    I’ve just seen a damning stat from the people who put on yesterday’s conference. Maximizing patient health not prioritized quite enough.

  4. Nullius in Verba Avatar
    Nullius in Verba

    It’s just always struck me as odd that when it comes to justifying “gender affirming care”, people talk about happiness rather than health. Since when is happiness doctors’ realm?

  5. Rev David Brindley Avatar
    Rev David Brindley

    For USAIANS, probably stems from the time their terrorists revolutionaries wrote “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

    Two religious statements in a single sentence of the Nation’s founding document.

    Baby steps, then, from the pursuit of happiness to happiness at all costs. It’s probably why the USA is such a hotbed of self-help, TED talks, and Eastern Mysticism blended with the profit motive.

  6. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    It’s just always struck me as odd that when it comes to justifying “gender affirming care”, people talk about happiness rather than health. Since when is happiness doctors’ realm?

    Ditto the idea of “trans joy” or “trans euphoria.” That’s a pretty lofty expectation. I would find a constant state of “joy” or “euphoria” exhausting; in others I would find it phony and suspicious. Sometimes you feel like crap, sometimes just meh. And that’s okay. Anticipating/expecting “joy” or “euphoria” sounds like setting oneself up for failure and disappointment. Given that becoming the sex one is not is already unattainable, this would be an additional burden that is not going to be very conducive to mental health. If you’re always chasing the next dose of wrong sex hormones, or the next “procedure” for a lasting, heightened, positive emotional state you’re “supposed” to be feeling, you might feel compelled to feign it in order to justify your choice of this path to yourself and others, thereby adding the cherry of guilt for going off-script to the whole sundae of dismay.

  7. Francis Boyle Avatar
    Francis Boyle

    “MORE reinforcement” could pretty much be the TRA motto.