MySQL BINARY types are converted to strings

We recently observed that tables that had BINARY types were getting converted to string types in their Avro schema registry schemas. We see this log line:

 Nov 08 15:16:57 tst-kafkaDEBUG - field ‘some_uuid' (STRING) from column some_uuid BINARY(16) CHARSET utf8 NOT NULL (io.debezium.relational.TableSchemaBuilder)

It looks like this line is the culprit.