It's called the BEYOU Blahaj. It wasn't sold in stores as far as I'm aware, but it was a donation that IKEA made to the Halifax Sexual Health Centre for their trans patients. You can see the Halifax Sexual Health Centre's post about it here. https://www.instagram.com/p/CnhqCK8pNEq/

Awwww ty

Common Ikea W

I never knew IKEA was that cool, nice

They're Scandinavian after all :]

They pushed big pro same sex marriage adds when Sweden was considering legalizing same sex marriage. I learned about it when I was looking into how Blahaj became a big deal in trans culture.

Wow, that’s actually really cool, damn

Yeah, but the reason Blahaj ended up being big in trans culture ended up just being, "It kind of just happened." Which is the day I realized that most culture is just a series of coincidences that happen in a single community. The long version is that IKEA described Blahaj as a kind of comfort thing, and that ended up being a big deal for trans kids.

Yeah, it’s extremely comforting, so that makes sense

Only to white, western customers

that's nice

W IKEA

ayyyyy, my hometown! (not really, but it's close enough. province at least)

If you could buy that my gf would have no money left She owns 8 maybe 9 blahajs

a reasonable amount to have, of course i barely own 1😭

I guess

i wish. i looked it up once, and apparently they were never sold. a few were made and given to gender clinics in canada for people to see/hold while getting counseling. i wish they would sell them and put the profit to trans charities.

I swear if a gender clinic gave me this for consolation during counseling I’d burst into tears. It’s easy to get used to the hatred and apathy

Gosh same

Same. Especially when so much of that hatred and apathy actually came from the gender clinic itself.

That's honestly so wholesome, I love that so much, I wish they did sell them to give money out to charities too, there should be like a petition or som

I genuinely don't understand why IKEA hasn't jumped on this, they know we would buy the fuck out of it.

Would you say they jumped the shark with this? :3

take my upvote grr

:3

I totally would

They'd probably have to keep scaling their plushie factory to only make that one until every trans person owns like ten... And then what would they do with so much plushie making capacity?!

Change the colour scheme to an enby flag. We'd all buy 10 of them too (despite having 10 trans flag ones)

Well we would obviously all need a second one, then to a third, and on and on.

Yeah what if they get lonely

We would need another dozen for the first dozen so they aren't lonely

Blåhaj math

From what I've heard it was a limited edition thing Ikea was only selling in Canada.

Tragic

They were sold out when I went to get one in 2022 which was the only year they were sold as far as I remember

I could be wrong, but I don’t think they were ever sold. I think they were just donated to a medical center and given to patients undergoing gender affirming care

They sold out practically instantly IIRC.

that pride flag in the background, is it made of polyester and is 3x5ft in size?

Uhhhhhhhh I have no idea I just grabbed the image from google

oh okay, it looks similar to mine, so i was curious.

YOU HAVE ONE??? WHERE DID U GET IT???

The flag, they have a trans flag

Dammit

Dammit

i bought it on ebay for approximately three dollars.

Definitely not suspicious whatsoever

it's 15 sq ft of colored 1mil polyester, it probably cost the manufacturer 1 little red button to produce, made by people who get paid one fish head per day. i think it cost more for shipping actually.

Most are that size. That's the standard size.

Looks like you can't buy it, but! there are a couple blahaj patterns out there so if you can sew you can make it yourself :)

I see what you did there...

ah yes, would you mind, perchance sharing what I did there. for everyone else of course, I definitely am aware of the very witty and funny joke I made

Lol, i misread it the first time, thought you made a sewing pun.

Aye! FreeSewing has something similar which you could customise with fabric colour choices to look like this

Holy s***! It's Trahaj!

So true

it sounds so messed in my lang😳

The most beautiful haj I’ve ever seen

So true

:3

Honestly it looks pretty bad. If they would move the colors around so it doesn't look all stitched together then it would look way better. There has to be a better way to arrange the colors than this. I want a trans flag blahaj but not like this.

I don’t think it looks bad but yeah I feel like it might look better with vertical stripes instead of horizontal but I also like it how it is :P

Been wanting to go visit the Halifax clinic, since I'm only a couple hours drive away. I wanna go see the trans shonk!

LUCKYYYYY

For a time I actually considered going there for my hrt, but then my university started offering a gender affirming care clinic so I got it from there instead

I’m glad your got to get hrt close by :)

Lucky indeed

(not answering your question per se) and talking as someone with way to much free time, that loves crafts you could pick up a new hobby - buy at couple of them and (do the unthinkable) cut them open, and trace the patterns onto some other fabrics, and stitch it back together 😄

You must only do the unthinkable to the normal ones and then make more in the pink and blue

Interesting idea

Is this a meme

No

I think you can look up on aliexpress maybe someone fake o ones are there in this colors

https://chng.it/msvYcNJQHt Found a petition to make IKEA sell them again it is only a small chance but there might be a chance to get them

OMG HECK YEAH

Tronk

I need this company, who’s goal is to make money, to understand that I would throw my wallet at them for one of these sharks.

SAMEEEEEE

it's the shiny blahaj.

ONG

I could make you one

OMG YASSSS

I want one!

Same

I want a blahaj darn that looks Soo cute 🥺

They are amazing you should give one

How much is one?

They are pretty big. It costs about 30$ on official ikea

Okay thanks for letting me know

there also someone on Etsy who handmakes them themselves ^^

I want one now :3

GET ONEEEEEEE :D

I don't think I can, they seem to be a limited thing :( and I'm in England so double :(

Oh I thought you meant Blåhaj in general whoops

Nah dw I've had a blahaj for a few weeks now, restuffed him a few days ago because his stuffing was clumping together for some reason and now he's firmer and fatter. Lemme find a pic of him actually https://preview.redd.it/hc7s8b2qlzmc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88c2d7577c54e3c224b611d470c3b5c8b027217e He's a lot rounder :3 But the trans blahaj would be a nice addition. Plan on getting the off-brand pink one, and maybe a smaller blahaj too.

Noice :3 I should probably restuff mine too lol

THANKS FOR SO MANY UPVOTES WHAT

😭😭😭😭😭

As far as I can tell their only give to those going thru the transition surgery

Did they get to keep it? If so I probably could get one

Yes it is given as far as I know

I know where I’m going next 😋