Chest binders made headlines after two were given to a 13-year-old Maine girl by a public school staffer without her parents’ permission or knowledge.
Many of the organizations specifically state that they have no age requirements, “however, in order to comply with US, state and federal regulations, if you are 13 years of age or younger, we can only accept your request with the consent of your parent or legal guardian,”A young person pictured here with a “chest binder”– a controversial garment meant to flatten a girl’s breasts so she can transition to becoming a man.
After discovering two “chest binders” in her daughter’s room, 13, mom Amber Lavigne put one on to see exactly how uncomfortable they were, she told The Post. She called them “body-shaming.”Lavigne doesn’t know where the two chest binders given to her daughter came from, but she suspects they were provided by an organization like this, who gave them to her school’s social worker.
I can’t even imagine how uncomfortable this thing was to wear for 8, 9 hours a day, and that’s what [my daughter] was doing.” “They can destroy your ducts that you utilize to breast feed, they can warp your rib cage because you’re still developing at 13 years old,” she said. “There are definitely side effects to wearing these binders, especially if they’re worn incorrectly.”Great Salt Bay Community School in Maine is being sued by Lavigne.
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