How did breast become such a scary word for trans people?

Is it used outside that context though? I don’t think I’ve heard a man’s chest called a breast.

Sorry, both leaders/ moderators are GC. Sneaky ? Got in.

A heated discussion with women who I thought would know better in an LLL fb group demonstrated that they believed that breast is a very gendered word and if you're NB or trans man it simple doesn't apply to you.

Which is anatomically incorrect.

I wanted to ask if a milk blep was therefore a gendered term, isn't also 'milk' gendered? and Fallopian tube.... But the moderator (actually GC? Wisely closed the discussion. The women arguing for NB rights were getting exceptionally angry.

I’ve not heard that, and thought it was only used to describe women’s chests, and the odd unfortunate male abuser of steroids.

And the even more unfortunate men who get breast cancer. Not chest cancer, that would be something distinctly different. Cancer of the breast tissue.

I didn't mean to cross that section out. Silly new formatting -- i just meant to use dashes.

'Chestfeeding' is just bizarre the baby's not sucking some kind of fluid from your ribs or lungs. Breastfeeding is accurate. And men do have breasts some are unlucky enough to get cancer in them. Just not very noticeable.

I think the trans emphasis on breasts TWs getting implants or taking hormones to swell theirs up rather than, say, changing the shape of their hips is just because men in general are more fixated on breasts than hips.

I find chestfeeding a very odd euphemism. It reminds me of prudish people who found the whole idea of breastfeeding embarrassing. Even if most of your breast tissue has been removed for cosmetic reasons it’s still structurally the breast that feeds the baby. And if we can have a female penis why is a male breast such a stretch? The logic doesn’t add up.

I don't know the answer, but I do find it excruciating when people discussing their transition (often TW or sometimes TM who have had them removed) talk about - god I can barely type it - "titties". Urgh it makes me squirm and cringe myself inside out. I don't really use "breasts" in everyday conversation either, more likely to say boobs or other slang - but the t word ew ew ew. It sounds so sexual and pornified and yet at the same time really childish. did I mention I HATE IT?!

I think you’re exactly right.

Perhaps the word 'breast' is too biological. If someone is purely focussed on breasts as an appendage for sexual gratification rather than the multi-purpose usage real breasts have, they seem to prefer slang terms than the standard 'breast'.

Maybe this is a language thing, but in terms of everyday usage, is it normal to describe a man’s chest as “breasts”?

I’ve not heard that, and thought it was only used to describe women’s chests, and the odd unfortunate male abuser of steroids.

I guess many female people really hate them

They are inconvenient at best - unless you are lucky and very small

And they attract an awful lot of unwanted attention /harressment

I can quite see how sone young girls in particular would like them to vanish and vanishing the word is part of that