La Leche League's "Erasing of Mothers" Saga Continues

@notidentifying22 - you say I think it is selfish to come into an organization with the stated goal of making it a political organization by attempting to get it to bend to one's own personal beliefs. You also talk about 'gender warriors' taking over. It can make it sound like LLLI Board members were not involved with LLL before they were elected. When in actual fact, and you probably know this having studied the applications of numerous Board members, they have all been LLL Leaders for a long time, and have deep concern for the breadth of LLLI's needs and challenges.

<one name on the ballot and very few Leaders vote.>
If only one candidate stands there is only one name on the ballot - nothing stopping more people standing, right? And nothing stopping Leaders voting.

Each DCE (DCE = leadership body for Leaders in specific regions) runs its own elections. Negative campaigning is not permitted and there are good reasons for that. However many DCEs host online meetings with candidates for Leaders to attend, or invite questions they will put to candidates. And all candidates will have references and a candidate statement shared with Leaders in that DCE.

Not really pseudo-democratic at all. However, if you have concerns speak to your administrators, or write the LLLI Board - cos they're probably not checking mumsnet threads for your opinions.

Here's the policy governing elections to the LLLI Board if you're interested -
www.llli.org/about/policies-standing-rules/psr-board-elections/

As I hear it there is frequently only one name on the ballot and very few Leaders vote. Leaders standing for roles are not allowed to speak about why other Leaders should vote for them so any who do vote can only go off knowing the candidates personally or knowing someone who knows them. It is pseudo democratic I suppose.

The democratically elected globally representative yet Stalinist LLLI Board?
Interesting.

The LLL Leaders running the website in question actively sought to damage La Leche League - it is entirely reasonable for LLLI to try to stop that and uphold their ability to support Leaders, mothers, parents and babies.

I can see why you would cuckoo an organisation if you needed its resources but to do so essentially to just to control language is bizarre. When they get bored of this they’ll just leave presumably and LLL just falls over.

The resemblance to the McCarthy era and the Chinese cultural revolution era are so very obvious. What's different from this wave of authoritarianism and cancellations is that it centers on only one sex as the wrongthinkers, and, perhaps, that the people doing the punishing are attacking the vast majority. Though the fact that the vast majority consists of female people is, of course, the real reason why all this is happening.

I'm not a mother so haven't breastfed. According to my mother, she could have done with the sort of help the League provides with me. My two sisters both breast fed, one two at a time, and I suspect she could have done with their help. So I am appalled to read about this. And what is the Stalinist board threatening the samizdat mothers of MfM with that they have to go into hiding on line?IT is beyond belief.

So many organisations in the US have been captured in this way, but since men don't have breasts and don't lactate I'm particularly horrified that LLLI has. They were such a help and support to me when I had my DS in the US, but to be GC in America is far harder than it is here and many more, otherwise cool, fun, interesting women are fully TWAW. It's very sad.

So sad that all our things are being sought out and destroyed from within.

Thanks OP, so sad that such a women-focused institution has become so toxic