I agree I've sometimes troubles to know it too...
Daphne Regarding thigh bands, I'm wearing them 24/7 with a 4cm chain
Very short chain;is it enough to manage your daily activities?
Rina Chastity belt manufacturers like Fancy Steel or Access Denied markets it as "shemale" / "sissy" belt, which I don't like wording of their marketing, though.
Probably they name it this way as chastity belts are mainly marketed for fetishists.
Angelina built for the biological gender but are visually designed according to the identitary gender
Well… that might be one that may explain it in easy way, since its visual design would align with MTF trans wearer’s gender identity!
Vanessa mainly marketed for fetishists
Yes and that makes it hard for me to be open about my interest in chastity belt, although my purpose would be far from fetish use for me
Vanessa Probably they name it this way as chastity belts are mainly marketed for fetishists.
There is some correlation among interest in chastity devices and dysphoria from presenting as male, but while the people interested in chastity belts have an above-average population of male-to-female transgender people, they also have an even more above-average ratio of male-to-female crossdressers, and the latter make up a much larger market segment than the former.
Rina Well… that might be one that may explain it in easy way, since its visual design would align with MTF trans wearer’s gender identity!
ah ok, i think i understand 
Rina Yes and that makes it hard for me to be open about my interest in chastity belt, although my purpose would be far from fetish use for me
you should be open with it, you are open about your gender identity so the same should apply to the belt. being chaste has no specific gender
carg how does that work with thighbands, if there is no belt to attach them to?
good question, i don't understand it either
To a corset
Ah, OK. I concluded from your previous post that they were not attached at all, and you relied purely on the tightness of the bands and stickiness of the silicone to keep them in place, and I couldn't imagine that was very escape-proof. But connected to a corset seems like a good solution too (as long as you can't remove the corset either of course 
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Does this also mean that you wear the bands relatively high up your thighs? That would make the 4cm chain more doable.
Daphne That is quite the setup. I'm glad you are doing it voluntarily, because being forced to wear your equipment would be even harder.
You're lucky to have found a keyholder who supports it all, but also, as far as I can tell, doesn't pressure you to do more.
P.S. I'm sorry if me bringing up the situation with your gender was not really something you wanted to talk about. I wanted to understand your situation better, but perhaps you just want to be seen as a girl, and not constantly explain about your birth gender.
Rina Yes and that makes it hard for me to be open about my interest in chastity belt
Our forum is good for it!
I understand it can be harder to discuss it truly on more fetishists forum...
Congratulation,it seems not easy.
I think the main customers are wearers who use it only as a game,or in DS relationship.
Angelina you can also be seen as a girl without being belted
I agree.
