Trans Men Talk About Their First Binders (Parody)

[Watch till the end]

my first binder.
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yeah I totally remember my first binder.
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I didn’t get my first binder until late in high school.
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all my other friends were flaunting theirs.
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you know, we couldn’t afford a binder for me so, I just kind like envied them and wished
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and hoped that one day I would get mine and finally my day came.I was pretty young when
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I got my first binder.
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I think I was in the 6th grade.
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I’m not a very big guy but I needed a big binder to just hold everything together for
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me.
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my binder was pretty standard.
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it was white.
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I honestly wish it had come in like another color.
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maybe like a darker color.
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there weren’t a lot of options so I ended up with a really basic white one.
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it was almost like I had to make my own binder out of the dregs of other things.
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it’s been a long time since I thought about that binder.
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ooof, man, it’s like I almost am having a visceral experience thinking about that.
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when I finally found the perfect binder it just made sense for me.
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it made sense for who I was.
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It just made sense for me it makes sense for who I was and I got to to truly be myself
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I felt organized and prepared to go out into the world and just to be myself under made
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me feel like I can do anything we were unstoppable However I’ve been living my life really without
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this thing getting a binder was totally totally life-changing somehow it became something
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that gave me a better sense of myself and who I was
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Do you still have your first binder?
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You know I lost it in a move a few years ago, so I haven’t seen it in awhile
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We reached out to your roommate at that time and they kept it for you and we have it.
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What?
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No way!
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Do you want to see it?
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Oh wow.
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This was my first binder Oh My god!
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I can’t believe you found it It had the 112!
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Peaches N Cream you know what I’m saying Can I take this?
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Can I keep my binder

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