Bound By Pride: New Mexico High School Pays Nearly $10k for Women’s ‘Chest Binders’ 

Beatriz Madan | June 17, 2024
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A high school in New Mexico spent nearly $10k on “chest binders” after a non-profit LGBTQ+ group gave funds to build a “gender-inclusive closet providing affirming supplies and clothes for trans and gender non-conforming students.”

The grant for the Las Cruces Public School District was given by the nonprofit LGBT organization It Gets Better, to build a closet in Centennial High School meant to fashion students with cross-dressing opportunities at school.

According to the Washington Examiner, a record request from the New Mexico Freedoms Alliances reveals that “the district spent $8,370 of the money (a $10K grant) on over 200 chest binders, which are tight fabrics used to compress breasts in order to “masculinize” a female’s chest.”

These tight bands were handed out at a local pride event, although they are notoriously harmful to women’s breasts.  Medical studies reveal that “Chest binding can cause harm to women and girls, with one study showing that 88.9% of participants reported experiencing at least one symptom from chest binding, including pain and musculoskeletal or neurological problems, as well as scarring and rib fractures.”

Yet, regardless of these and countless other studies, the LGBTQ+ community continues to advocate for harmful behavior for children who often are not aware of the dangers.

The school reportedly used the rest of the grant funds on sexually explicit LGBTQ+ books. 

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Ashley McClure,  who first reported this story for the Independent Women’s Forum, stated, “You know, everyone’s always talking about how schools are underfunded, but you know the fact that they chose to spend their money on those things just shows the clear ideological agenda.” 

An agenda that the Las Cruces School District leadership decided to make binding.

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