Chestfeeding group at work

It's an effort to destroy any language pertaining specifically to female functions.

Nina the transwomen are people who are transitioning from male to female, the transmen are the people transitioning from female to male. It’s easy to remember if you just think about what the person would want you to say about them - if they want to be seen as a man, they’re the transmen.

I originally thought the chestfeeding thing was about transwomen, but I’m sure now it’s not. I think it’s about trying to neutralise the role of sex in infant feeding and if anything is more of an issue for the transmen.

"I'm confused - what is chestfeeding?"

It should still be "breast", this is just to avoid upsetting transwomen who haven't had implants but they still do have breasts.

For example, men can have breast cancer, it's not chest cancer - www.nhs.uk/conditions/breast-cancer-in-men/

I’m getting confused with the terminology
transwoman snd transman - which is which?

Chestfeeding is just factually incorrect. I've breastfed 4 babies, had matisis more times than I can remember, and there's no way you could confuse mastitis with a chest infection?! Do all medical facts count for sweet FA now?

Bloody ridiculous. If it's about trans men and they are feeding a baby then they are breast feeding.

And if it's about trans women perhaps they should realise that men get breast cancer, not chest cancer.

Utterly laughable - if it wasn't so precious and sad.

Yy backlash, planned for years

Are we heading for some weird Victorian morality where we can't say a normal word such as breastfeeding, but have to be happy with other situations where women are shunned for being born female. I wonder if it's not part of a backslash against women in general, yet again we are at the bottom of the pile.

Kyanite- it still isn’t chestfeeding though.

The milk, even if stimulated through a drug regimen, is still being made by breast tissue, under the nipple. It is the same process in every individual. Therefore it is still breastfeeding, whether by biological man or woman, whatever sex they present as.

They're not dysphoric, they're just precious.

A 30-year-old transgender woman has been able to breastfeed her child, the first ever case of induced lactation in a transgender woman to be documented in academic literature.

The patient took a gradually increasing regimen of the female hormones progesterone and estradiol, stimulated her chest with a breast milk pump, and took domperidone, a nausea medication known to increase milk production.

www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/14/transgender-woman-breastfeed-health

If they are so fragile that the word breast was triggering and reminding them they are biologically women, why the hell would they have had a baby and be breastfeeding anyway

This^ I genuinely dont understand how a word triggers them, but the action does not

OP, I'd go with PPs suggestion and innocently ask wtf chest feeding is.

I would say breastfeeding a lot and if they say chestfeeding say 'you mean breastfeeding?'

So I agree with going in and very disingenuously asking them to explain chest- feeding. Big smiles, very interested. Get them to hoist themselves by their own petards, as it were

YY, that's exactly the way to play it.

Do you think most people have heard of chestfeeding? I don't think so, myself

So I agree with going in and very disingenuously asking them to explain chest- feeding. Big smiles, very interested. Get them to hoist themselves by their own petards, as it were

Isn't this aimed at the sensibilities of trans men , not trans women?

Fuck knows. I thought it was exclusionary to transwomen to refer to breastfeeding and remind them that they can’t if they don’t have female breasts?

So he ok to offend women but God forbid we offend men

Fairly certain "chest feeding" is used to avoid offending trans men, not biological men.

Sorry Sengah, I'm paranoid.

Sheldon? You’ve lost me.

So he ok to offend women but God forbid we offend men (let's remember if transwomen are Afghanistan then transient are actual men). And men can breastfeed just the same as women because we all have breast tissue. I'd refuse to attend anything called breastfeeding and tell them why. It's exclusionary and offensive.

Another thread where the OP disappears. It's like offense farming.

My DSF died a couple of weeks ago. The secondary cause of death was breast cancer. Breast not chest because male bodies do, indeed, have breast tissue. Like ILoveDolly's DF all DSF's medication, advice leaflets etc etc came with a little pink bows on them.
Every time I went to his appointments with him the staff assumed I was the one with breast cancer, not him. He just had to poke up with it and he did with great grace.

Oh lord .. you lot sound like a fun group !!! .. just stay at home and breastfeed
( yes .. I have children )