Transgender people looking to change up their wardrobes are often met with financial barriers, but Dell Thrift and Pantry at the University of Lynchburg is working to change that.

Transgender people looking to change up their wardrobes are often met with financial barriers. At a private college in Virginia, LGBTQ+ students are working to break down those walls with a no cost food and clothing pantry.

Dell Thrift and Pantry at the University of Lynchburg provides free clothing, including binders, for members of the community, as well as nonperishable food. While it is geared towards transgender and gender-nonconforming pupils, all students and staff are welcome, 24/7.

The pantry opened in September after receiving a grant of $1,600 in startup funds from the university’s Innovation Collaborative program. It is manned by 20 volunteer students, and accepts clothing donations from its patrons, as well as monthly food donations from the Park View Community Mission and the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.

Dell Thrift and Pantry also features a fund specifically for binders, which can be requested through a QR code on the bulletin board outside the shop. Patrons can fill in their information and receive one in their mail, delivered discretely.

Quality binders are often expensive, and using cheap ones can have adverse health effects. The binders provided by Dell Thrift come from GC2b, which are not only designed with safety in mind, but also created “by trans people, for trans people,” according to their website.

read more: https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-nonbinary-thrift-fashion-virginia

  • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
    272·
    11 months ago

    Holy shit, in Lynchburg of all places? Progress! Everyone at Liberty University must be beside themselves over it.

    edit: University of Lynchburg is a

    private university associated with the Christian Church

    I’m stunned.

      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
        105·
        11 months ago

        If you call yourself a Christian, you implicitly lend credibility to everyone that calls themselves a Christian.

        Unless they’re actively calling out the bigots as non-christians?

        • Nougat@kbin.social
          8·
          11 months ago

          If you call yourself a Christian, and you’re a Catholic, are you also lending credibility to Mormons, Episcopalians, Southern Baptists, Presbyterians, and Branch Davidians?

          • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
            62·
            11 months ago

            Yes, unless the person you’re speaking to understands all that about you and the situation. It’s about perception.

          • FlaxEnglish
            22·
            11 months ago

            Mormons aren’t Christian

              • FlaxEnglish
                2·
                11 months ago

                They are literally tri-theist and believe that some guy was divinely revealed some book to him personally which claims Jesus went to America. Said books contradict the Bible and isn’t proved by the archaeological record. They think the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are all three gods as well. Muslims also believe in Jesus, doesn’t make them Christian either.

              • manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.comEnglish
                0·
                11 months ago

                Mormons don’t believe in the Trinity as established in the Council of Nicaea and the Council of Chalcedon 1500+ years ago. Christians disagree on a whole hell of a lot of things, but the nature of God isn’t one of them. Mormonism is a heretical cult that’s as Christian as Islam is

                • Nougat@kbin.social
                  1·
                  11 months ago

                  So different sects of Christianity can have different dogmas, just not that one, right. What makes Mormons any more or less wrong than, say, Catholics?

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    9·
    11 months ago

    PSA: sadly GC2b has had real quality issues for a few years now. Their binders used to be good quality, but people have been having issues with them falling apart quickly or being sized incorrectly, having trouble with getting them to fulfill exchanges, etc.

    I had top surgery years ago so I can’t give recent personal recommendations, but as far as I know Shapeshifters and Underworks are still considered good quality.

  • aelwero@lemmy.worldEnglish
    83·
    11 months ago

    Why the discretion about binders? Do people get hung up over them? It’s basically a girdle… Is it the 1800’s up in this bitch or something? Do we gotta hide the sears catalog from the kids?

    Get some with nipples on em and wear em in public, you’re males, it’s legal. Should be legal for everyone anyway, or illegal for everybody…

      • aelwero@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I think I’m misreading the article… I’m under the impression, based on how this is written, that they don’t have any binders in the store, and the context of my entire comment was based on that :)

        It’s not all binders are secret squirrel mode I take it? It’s just an alternative option and they have some there?

        • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Binders can be dangerous if they’re too tight, low quality or worn for too long. Good ones can be kind of expensive.

          The article mentioned that they have a fund specifically for binders, probably because they don’t want to risk accidentally selling someone an unsafe binder.

      • aelwero@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Basically a girdle? Flattens out anatomy you don’t want showing? I think I understood the context…

        • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
          12·
          11 months ago

          Ohh I was thinking is was something productive like a bunch for paper and not fashion…