The FDA sent out warnings to companies selling binders. Binders are now considered medical devices and will need yearly approval by the FDA to be sold. Even 3 foreign businesses (1 Dutch, 2 Singaporean) got the warning issued.
Apparently they didn't forget about trans men and mascs.
Time to relabel them crop bra's on sellers website.
But it's also about descriptions on the websites, so information is gonna have to go underground and it's going to be harder to find what you're looking for.
I'm sure sellers will find a way to word it in a fancy way to get around that too.
To be fair, it could be advertised as a cosplaying prop.
Which will make acquiring a safe binder more difficult, and allow dangerous, unethical sellers to more easily sell harmful “binders.” Teens will resort to ace bandages and tape again when they can’t find a safe, available alternative.
Bong for smoking weed ❌
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This sort of thing is why binders were listed as "for tomboy costume cosplay crossdresser" when I first looked a decade ago.
Borrow descriptive terms from Spanx but one look at it'll be obvious what they are. Word gets around, but there won't be anything official.
For me, I feel like the word of mouth being largely on the internet is the detriment here. It’s easy for their AI or whatever to learn what we are using and use it against it. The underground part gonna have to be actually offline like we used to do it. Zines and ballrooms and shit.
I'm old. I've been trying to get people in our communities to STFU online about any important details since 2017. Talking openly in public forums is like giving our oppressors a roadmap for how to most efficiently and effectively shut us down.
Ulgh thank you. I’m not even allllll that old. Like 40ish. But I’m from the southeast, and I also remember life before the internet was very prevalent, especially in poor communities. I didn’t have constant internet access til my mid 20s which is a lot later than a lot of people my age. And on the one hand I get it. There’s kids in situations where this is the only way to find info. I was once the info-less suicidal trans kid who didn’t know what or who I was because I had no language for me or models of me. But on the other hand I grew up where it pays to be fucking paranoid. And we have entered the era where paranoia will serve us well. Besides is it even paranoia if it’s fucking real.
I'm tired, Boss. Don't Orangey and The Brain Worm have anything better to do with their time? Just leave us in peace.
No. They're both crazy old men with significant brain damage. Any chance of them having useful helpful ideas is long gone.
It was a rhetorical question.
Yeah, I understood that. I was just taking the opportunity to make fun of their severe cognitive failings.
And you got a rhetorical answer :)
They accidentally made binders HSA eligible!
Oh look more unwanted, forced, oversight from the party of small government. But don’t call them Nazis!
FDA can't be arsed checking vitamins, but gotta make trans masc lives harder. Seriously what a fucking shit show.
I'm a cis woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer and was treated with a mastectomy. I wore binders after the surgery to keep my chest incisions safe and heal better. These evil people always talk about how they do what they do to "protect" women from whatever threat they think trans people are, and continuously prove that it's not about that at all. It's always about harming trans people as much as they can, even if it means also harming those cis women they swear they're protecting. It's always about the cruelty and it will always harm more than trans people, and they do not care. I'm so fed up.
Sorry you went through that. All cancer free now I hope?
6 years no evidence of disease (remission, but they don't use that word as much now for cancers that are likely to return) this Thanksgiving. I'm doing well!
If this was being done by a non-transphobic administration this could potentially be really good. It could be easier to find high-quality binders and they could be covered by insurance. Unfortunately this is being done in bad-faith by people who want trans people dead, so...
The Nazis targeted transgender people first, it seems like history is rhyming here. Never forget that this vulnerable group was also apart of Holocaust victim status. I hate to see the Nazis doing it again. Push back relentlessly. This is unconstitutional on its face. They seem to really hate that first amendment don't they?
For claiming they don’t actually exist, republicans seem to know allot of intimate details about trans folks.
So, the feds are finally saying it is medicine, huh.
On the same day the Epstein redactions are out too
"Gender affirming garments can help you alleviate gender dysphoria by compressing or enhancing body parts that cause you negative feelings."
"Gender affirming garments" include corsets for women who want to feel more feminine. Seems like gender affirmation is only a problem when someone doesn't want to perform the gender that's on their birth certificate or whatever.
The people in charge are so f*cking stupid.
Guess "chest flattening corsets" are about to be transmasc high fashion.
Federal government is run by fuckfaces with ugly decrepit souls.
Sounds like I can use my HSA to purchase them now
Fucking A…. Psa- My 15 yo trans son wears kinesiology tape and it works great (prob best for smaller-chested trans guys, though). His pediatrician was so impressed that he was using the right tape and doing it safely.
This will affect Disney. They use binders for the girls that play Mickey Mouse.
Surprised these goons didn’t send their warnings to Office Depot and Staples accidentally instead
They're already being sold as "compression bras" on some websites, for privacy and safety.