That The La Leche League have dangerously lost the plot?

Does speaking about trans people in such derogatory terms make you feel better?

The terms are factual.
Babies are not and should not be a prop for men's validation.

'Chest' feed their baby with what? Chemical fluids?

If that's what you want to call it fine but that still isn't just a bloke who's wondered in off the street for an ogle, it's someone trying to breast feed their baby, which can be done which is why LLL is including them.

Does speaking about trans people in such derogatory terms make you feel better?

I keep being told by TRAs that male and female are the words for the biological sexes. So males cannot become females.

I personally don't think men can be women either, but ffs leave us some words of our own!

It's impossible to change from male to female and they will never live as a woman as they are men. They live as men pretending to be what they think a woman is

They are living their lives as women and mothers to their babies.

How do you "live your life as a woman", beyond just being a woman? Surely they are living their lives as dysphoric or AGP men on cross-sex hormones?

By being transgender, transitioning from male to female and using hormone therapy to alter their body and become more feminine.

Trans women are not just blokes in dresses.

How exactly can men live their lives as women and mothers?

Christ the hysteria is strong here.

The biological males that everyone is ranting about are trans women who are inducing lactation using hormones. The same as adoptive mothers who have also not given birth to their baby but wish to breastfeed them.

They are living their lives as women and mothers to their babies. They are there trying to breast feed their adopted or perhaps surrogate born babies.

They're not just random men that are waltzing in off the street for an ogle FFS.

Absolutely agree

I believe a number of men identifying as trans women it’s a fetish

If trans woman are offended by this then look at the real problem its men not us women

I absolutely agree.

I breastfed my son for almost 2 years and my husband was supportive and a very hands on dad and partner.

He read the books, he looked online for advice when I wanted to wean, he asked questions when a midwife visited the house to help me in the early days. But he'd never in a million years want to come to a breastfeeding group with me. In his own words "where would I even look?!"

This from the La Leche League website:
"Trans women can use a protocol similar to adoptive and other non-gestational mothers and stimulate their milk supply: it is called the Newman-Goldfarb protocol."

https://llli.org/breastfeeding-info/transgender-non-binary-parents/

The Newman-Goldfarb protocol:
"The person inducing lactation takes the combination birth control pill and the anti-nausea drug domperidone, which increases the prolactin levels."

Why? What use are they in a breastfeeding clinic? What can a dad physically do to help a mum learn to breastfeed?

My dh took extended paternity leave and did all he could when my two were newborns. Changed 5 nappies to my 1.

But if I'm getting help sorting out a difficult latch I don't need my husband hovering around "how's it going? Any better?" Or, worse! Giving suggestions! "Shouldn't her chin be more tucked in than that? The book says nose to nipple"

He's better off at home doing something useful like a load of laundry.

Oh my sweet summer child

So I must be ever so dense but why would a trans woman want or need to be at a La Leche meeting. Because, treading carefully, I don't think they are birthing and breast feeding a baby which would seem to be the rationale for the meetings.

Really? Breastfeeding "absolutists" care about the healthy development of children, even if you don't agree with the way they go about it.

The other group have shown that the well being of children is not their top priority.

I went to a b/f group where many of the women brought their male partners. I felt deeply uncomfortable and I'm not usually the type to mind. There were a couple of men who openly stared. I didn't go back for a second session. None of the men looked particularly useful to their partners.
I think if women really want their menfolk there, then there should be separate couples sessions. The same applies to transwomen if they have female partners, there is no need for them to be in women only sessions.

Any man who wants a baby to suck his nipples is a nonce. Call it out.

Well thats one more reason not to breastfeed!

I wouldn't want any males around when accessing breastfeeding support.

I remember being on the maternity ward, my son needed feeding, I was struggling, I was a young mum, on my own (physically at that moment), I had HORRENDOUS after pains and BF was making me physically vomit and the male partners were on the ward visiting, even with the curtain closed I hated it, it felt so intrusive. I just wanted women around me helping me.

Honestly I don't really see why not. My DH has always been very hands-on with the kids, an equal partner etc, but was of limited use with the actual mechanics of BFing when I needed help.

Neither is excluding women that wouldn't feel comfortable with men in the room. You have to pick one. Picking the least worst option is what LLL did in that case. Not in this case.