{"id":99781,"date":"2023-10-09T03:35:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T03:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=99781"},"modified":"2023-10-09T03:35:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T03:35:59","slug":"universities-offer-thousands-of-pounds-in-grants-for-fake-breasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/world-news\/universities-offer-thousands-of-pounds-in-grants-for-fake-breasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities offer thousands of pounds in grants for fake breasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Universities offer thousands of pounds in grants for fake breasts and chest binders for trans and non-binary students<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span>University College London offers \u00a35,000 towards clothing or beauty products<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Universities are offering thousands of pounds in grants to trans and non-binary students for fake breasts and chest binders, the Mail can reveal today.<\/p>\n<p>At the University of Kent, students can get up to \u00a3100 to put towards &#8216;gender-affirming products&#8217; and even &#8216;minor cosmetic procedures&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>University College London has set aside almost \u00a35,000 to help students buy &#8216;clothing, beauty products or travel for medical or therapy appointments&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Critics slammed the schemes as &#8216;a mind-boggling example of virtue signalling&#8217; and demanded that universities stop wasting money.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative MP Lia Nici said: &#8216;Universities need to be supporting their students in lectures rather than wasting their supposed cash-strapped organisation&#8217;s money on gender ideology, rather than proper scientific research.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/09\/00\/76316633-12608783-image-a-35_1696806544329.jpg\" height=\"453\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>University College London has set aside a fund of almost \u00a35,000 to help students buy &#8216;clothing, beauty products or travel for medical or therapy appointments&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Toby Young of the Free Speech Union said: &#8216;It beggars belief that universities are spending money on this nonsense when they&#8217;re charging \u00a39,250 a year for tuition and clamouring to put fees up.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Students who &#8216;identify as trans, non-binary, intersex or otherwise gender diverse&#8217; can apply to UCL&#8217;s &#8216;Gender Expression Fund&#8217; for a grant of up to \u00a3100. The institution, ranked in the top ten universities worldwide, has allocated \u00a34,883.97 to the fund this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grants can be used to help students with the &#8216;purchase of items that will make them more comfortable with their gender presentation&#8217;, the university says. The cash is allocated through a &#8216;trust-based process based on self-declaration by the student&#8217; and is not subject to checks.<\/p>\n<p>It is part of a wider package of more than \u00a3500,000 available through the student union for students affected by rising costs of living.<\/p>\n<p>The union website reads: &#8216;Grants can be used to purchase gender-affirming products such as clothing, binders, packers and beauty products. Grants will usually be around \u00a350, but in exceptional circumstances may be up to a maximum of \u00a3100.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Packers are used by trans and non-binary people to create bulges suggestive of male genitals.<\/p>\n<p>From next month, trans and non-binary students can apply to the University of Kent&#8217;s &#8216;Gender Affirmation Fund&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>A number of Cambridge and Oxford colleges have similar schemes. Edinburgh University student union, which is funded mainly through a grant from the university, has created a &#8216;gender-empowerment fund&#8217;, and Warwick and Bournemouth University student unions have similar schemes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/09\/00\/76317233-12608783-image-a-44_1696807809697.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>At the University of Kent, students can get up to \u00a3100 to put towards &#8216;gender-affirming products&#8217; and even &#8216;minor cosmetic procedures&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Kathy Armour, UCL&#8217;s vice-provost, said: &#8216;Our gender-expression fund, set up with the UCL Students&#8217; Union, is an important scheme that provides real and practical support to students who may be particularly vulnerable to marginalisation and prejudice.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A University of Kent spokesman said: &#8216;The fund is part of our wider package of student support, with those students who have accessed it reporting a positive improvement on their mental health and confidence, as well as their feelings of security and belonging.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>An Oxford University spokesman said: &#8216;Oxford is committed to supporting the needs of the university&#8217;s transgender students, staff and alumni.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;All trans members of the university deserve to feel safe, valued and supported.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Cambridge said funds were typically run by local student bodies and not centrally.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12608783\/Universities-offer-thousands-pounds-grants-fake-breasts-chest-binders-trans-non-binary-students.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universities offer thousands of pounds in grants for fake breasts and chest binders for trans and non-binary students University College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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