How about free foot-binding?
Utopia at last: free binders and packers for the people.
Trans students in Edinburgh are being offered free prosthetic breasts and “packers” that help give the appearance of having a penis.
Edinburgh University’s students’ association (EUSA) is paying for “gender-empowering” items that also include breast-binders and compression underwear to hide male genitalia.
“Gender-empowering”? What does that even mean?
For Women Scotland, the women’s rights group, said it was “horrified” to learn about the programme.
It said: “Breast-binding is a dangerous and regressive practice that destroys healthy tissue and causes breathing problems and damage to the ribcage. It restricts young women’s capacity to participate in normal activities and if done for long periods will cause permanent damage.”
But in exchange the young women are “gender-empowered.” Well worth it, I’m sure.
What if a man wanted a fake penis, so that he could have two? Would that be free, too?
The article mentions that these things cost between 50 and 150 pounds, so the ‘packer’ is not going to be an actual surgically made penis, but rather something worn inside the underwear to give the impression of having one while clothed. Haven’t they heard of socks??
Also, what an odd thing to want. Being the owner of the genuine article in my pants, the last thing I want is for it to a visible bulge in my day-to-day activity. It is not a good look!
Added to any hormone-induced facial hair, it gives one the “full look”, just like Enbies with their “they/them” blue/purple/green hair. TIMs have it so much easier. You don’t have to buy a head tilt.
It’s not fair!! Why do AMABs always have things easier, no matter whether they’re actually male, actually female, or actually enby?
and then these student associations scream blue murder when someone from the student body suggests that paying the SA fees should be an opt-in.
Re “packers” and them being “an odd thing to want”: In a culture obsessed with “camel toe”, it’s not terribly surprising.
I had to look that up, and wish that I hadn’t.
Have to admit my brain is struggling to keep all the acronyms errrr…..straight. There are SO MANY now.
This is another situation where “AMAB”s have the advantage over “AFAB”s. While I suppose compression underpants might have rare cases of negative consequences, a bit of research indicates those are fringe cases, while breast-bindings are clearly a hazard to a much larger segment of the wearers.