A chest binder is a device used by women to flatten their chests in order to appear male.
The College Fix reports:
Claremont Colleges queer center offers free chest binders, ‘TransTape’A Queer Resource Center serving a consortium of five private, elite colleges in Southern California offers free, “gender-affirming” resources such as “TransTape” to students.One conservative advocate told The College Fix the program, offered by the center serving the Claremont Colleges, will keep students with gender dysphoria “trapped in the cycle of sex denial.”Free chest binders, designed to flatten the chest for trans-identifying individuals, are available to students who may not “have the means to purchase them,” the center’s “Trans & Nonbinary at the Colleges” page states.The center also offers “TransTape” for “chest masculinization” and gaffs, which are undergarments designed to flatten the pelvic area for men attempting to appear more feminine.The request form stipulates that “this program will continue to provide the listed gender affirming resources until the budget for this program is exhausted.”Students are further advised, “due to budget limitations, please be mindful to request one item per person, per academic year.”The center’s website promises the colleges will “do [their] best to update sizes and skin tones” of products as they go out of stock, and maintain students’ anonymity by sending binders “directly to [their] campus mailbox in a plain campus envelope.”The center serves “the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, asexual, omnisexual, and pansexual communities, as well as allies, at The Claremont Colleges,” the website states.The campuses include Claremont McKenna, Scripps, Harvey Mudd, Pomona and Pitzer colleges.The page also instructs students on how to update their pronouns and chosen names on their student portals.
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