Is it sinister that free breast binders and groin gaffs are offered to kids on the quiet by a knitting yarn website?

How many other businesses provide these contentious items from their 'back room'?

A wee while ago, I was alerted to a NZ knitting yarn website called Yarn Therapy, where kids could also go to get free breast binders and groin gaffs - no parental permission required. Breast binders are restrictively tight crop tops or strapping for girls, which flatten the breasts as much as possible; and groin gaffs are restrictively tight underwear or strapping for boys, which tuck and flatten the penis and testicles, so no bulge can be seen.

These are extremely controversial items to provide to growing girls and boys, but are promoted as being ‘gender-affirming care’. Gender-affirming care is an innocuous-sounding term for going along with the pretence that kids are the opposite sex to that which they were born, if they just say that’s how they feel. The ‘care’ can run the gamut from clothing, to puberty blockers, to cross-sex hormones, to surgery. Currently, there are no restrictions on providing breast binders and groin gaffs to any kid who asks for them, whether or not their parents are aware of it.

Yarn Therapy devotes a page of their website to giving away these items, no questions asked. The page is called ‘The Gender Affirming Fairy Godmother Project!’ In my opinion, that’s very much in line with all the other luring ‘love’ language used widely in the general promotion of gender ideology.

On this page, the business owner, whom I’m informed is a woman called Jo Campbell, makes it very clear that she will happily go behind parents’ backs to provide breast binders and groin gaffs to growing kids. In the event the page become unavailable, screenshots of it are shown after the link to my interview below with Maree Buscke on Reality Check Radio about the disturbing subterfuge fostered on this website. Make your own judgement.

Protecting Our Children – Gender Ideology & Parental Rights

Maree Buscke

15 Oct 2025 • 46 mins

I would like to add, because I missed mentioning it in the interview, that there is a grassroots organisation here in New Zealand called Aotearoa Support for “parents who have children with gender distress or who have a transgender identity”, as well as those organisations Maree mentions towards the end of our chat.

In addition, here is the Genspect information I quoted about breast binders and groin gaffs.

And here are the screenshots of the entire page titled ‘The Gender Affirming Fairy Godmother Project!’ on Yarn Therapy’s website at the time of publication of this blogpost -