FWR Mumsnet again the baddies for wanting to protect breastfeeding babies...

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Delphinium20 · 17/07/2023 21:01

We made the top paragraph and we're 'notorious'. Evan Urquart, a transman who writes for slate and has no children, has opinions on transwomen breastfeeding, likely due Uquart's spouse being one. But I'm speculating...perhaps Evan is simply mad at women wanting to protect babies.

<a class="break-all" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230717131001/slate.com/technology/2023/07/trans-women-breastfeeding-safe-mumsnet.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20230717131001/slate.com/technology/2023/07/trans-women-breastfeeding-safe-mumsnet.html

What the Freakout Over Trans Women Breastfeeding Is Really About

The science behind it is actually pretty neat.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230717131001/https://slate.com/technology/2023/07/trans-women-breastfeeding-safe-mumsnet.html

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teawamutu · 17/07/2023 21:40

The literature is 'mixed', but 'at least one study' suggested that drug-induced moob juice was 'adequately nutritious'.

So there, transphobes 🙄

Helleofabore · 17/07/2023 21:39

Well. Every assurance that article gave was prefaced with the negating of that confidence. It is ‘known’ about the composition of male secretions…. One study. Or. Sorry. ‘At least one’…. No… we know there is just one. That writer obviously read our thread and found that study listed.

And it goes on in that vein. There is this drug, except there is no conclusive evidence of safety to babies.

What a remarkable piece of misinformation. If that writer actually read enough of our thread, they might have learned something. As it was, just because females can relactate (we know this) and some cultures do this more regularly (we know this too), doesn’t make a male feeding an infant unknown secretions ok.

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