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I think In a Bind started ten months ago. We've actually had the idea for about a year
and a half now. Jenn Burleton, the executive director of TransActive, went to the Trans
Health Conference in Philadelphia a few years ago and met a mother there. This was a mother
who has an elementary school-age transmasculine son. She's learning about the medical options
for her son, and learns, you know, if he goes on puberty blockers and then straight to testosterone,
which is their current plan, he will never go through female puberty and will never have
to bind or have top surgery. Which is great for her son, but she started thinking how
sad it is that there are other children out there going through the same experience who
either they don't have the words yet to express who they are or their parents aren't supportive
of that. And these children will go through female puberty and, you know, develop ***
that they don't identify with that cause dysphoria. And so she came up with this idea of what
can we do as a community to help these other kids who aren't as lucky as her own son, and
she came up with the general skeleton idea of In a Bind. Let's get donations and let's
give binders to these kids. So she brought that to Jenn Burleton at the Philly Trans
Health Conference a few years ago and Jenn brought it back to me and said, hey I have
this great idea, turn it into a program. And that was the beginning.