[Mimi.M]

From what I’ve been able to uncover, it’s the Seattle Public Schools in Washington and Las Cruces Public Schools in New Mexico.

[SaveFerris]

Thank you for updating the thread

[SaveFerris]

AI Overview:

Documented Cases of School Distribution

• King County, Washington (Seattle Public Schools): Internal emails obtained via public records requests in late 2025 revealed that the district’s Health Education Office partnered with Seattle Children’s Hospital. The hospital supplied chest binders, Transtape, and other gender-affirming items for “Community Health Lockers” available to students at high schools, such as Garfield High School.

• Doña Ana County, New Mexico (Las Cruces Public Schools): In 2024, a public records request showed that Centennial High School used an $10,000 external grant from the national LGBTQ+ youth non-profit It Gets Better to purchase over 200 chest binders for its campus clothing closet, which was open to all students.

• Lincoln County, Maine (Great Salt Bay Community School): While not a district-wide policy, this school became the focus of national media and a federal lawsuit after a school social worker provided a chest binder directly to a 13-year-old student without the parents’ knowledge or permission. A federal judge dismissed the initial parent lawsuit in 2024, ruling that the parent failed to establish constitutional violations that held the school board legally liable.

Educational Lessons vs. Distribution

In other areas, chest binders have appeared in the news regarding school lessons rather than physical distribution. For example, in Montgomery County, Maryland, parents raised concerns after a middle school showed an instructional video to 11- and 12-year-old students demonstrating how to safely wear chest binders as part of Transgender Awareness Week. The school district defended the lesson as an effort to foster respect and empathy.

[Elsie]

If YOUwere standing outside of a school, giving this stuff away, you'd be promptly arrested for being a pervert.

[Elsie]

If YOU were standing outside of a school, giving this stuff away, you'd be promptly arrested for being a pervert.

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COPILOT: If you're referring to cases where people were arrested or threatened with arrest for handing out Gideon Bibles outside schools, there have been some notable incidents, but the legality depended heavily on where they were standing and local circumstances.

For example, in Florida in 2007, members of The Gideons International distributing Bibles on a public sidewalk outside a school were threatened with arrest, and two were reportedly arrested. A subsequent federal court ruling allowed the activity to continue while the case proceeded, and the distributing group argued that handing out Bibles on a public sidewalk was protected by the First Amendment. [adflegal.org], [adflegal.org]

In the United States, the general legal principle is:

• On school property: Public schools have much greater authority to regulate outside groups and religious distribution.
• On public sidewalks or other traditional public forums: Free speech protections are often much stronger, though reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions may still apply. [adflegal.org], [adflegal.org]

There have also been many disputes over Gideons distributing Bibles near schools, with some advocacy groups arguing such distributions are inappropriate or unconstitutional when they occur on school grounds. [ffrf.org], [ffrf.org]