The Binder Diaries

The paradox of binder liberation over the years from an anxious nonbinary and autistic perspective

A friend did a photo series of some of my medical transitions.

My mentor AC gave me my first few binders. They were long and used, broken in just enough to get me started. AC was older than me by a little bit and also genderqueer (how I identified at the time). We had gotten paired up in an LGBTQ+ mentoring program for youth, and I remember feeling so lu…