I’m going on a seven day camping trip in a couple of months, and I’m worried about how I’m gonna bind the whole way through. None of the people I’m going with know I’m trans, and I’d rather keep it that way. Still waiting for top surgery…
The trip will consist of a lot of canoeing and hiking. It’s a very isolated location with no bathrooms, trash cans, etc. Typically, my preferred method of binding is using transtape, but it only lasts about four days before it starts to come loose and noticable. On the rest days from the tape, I typically use an underworks full tank binder, but those are terrible to do any intense exercise in because it gets sweaty and hard to breathe. I have one traditional binder which I’ll use when exercising on off days, but wearing that seven days straight seems like it’s not gonna work because of sweat, having to take breaks at night, etc. It’s also hard to hide under athletic wear and doesn’t do the best job of giving me a flat chest. I have no idea yet if I’m gonna be sharing a tent or not.
Do y’all have any ideas/recommendations for a way to bind stealthily, be able to exercise, and in the middle of nowhere with people for seven days? Also any recs for a (reasonably priced) STP packer to take would be helpful.
Also of note, my chest isn’t particularly big. Probably on the smaller side of B if I had to guess.
CIS male here who went on a lot of camping trips back in the day. I think that staying reliably stealth while changing clothes in a shared tent would be really hard. Changing once with decent odds of nobody noticing — sure. But over the course of a week it really depends how dense your tent-mate is.
I used to always change my pants in my sleeping bag which is pretty easy. Changing my shirt in my sleeping bag was certainly possible but a lot harder. Doing any of that without my tent partner being able to see what I’m pulling out of my luggage would be effectively impossible.
OTOH the people I was camping with didn’t really give a shit what I was pulling out of my luggage and weren’t paying attention. They were my friends, it’s not like I was camping with the Spanish Inquisition.
Have fun, enjoy the trip