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"Human Milk" ffs

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SecondUsername4me · 18/02/2024 10:28

Not linking to DM (clicks) but an article on the app today talks about how one NHS trust has said that hormone fuelled milk produced by transwomen is equally as good for baby as breastmilk produced by women.

The director says the terminology Human Milk should be used as both milk types are equal.

In the letter, the Medical Director claims 'there is clear and overwhelming evidence that human milk is the ideal food for infants', referring to both breast milk and the 'induced lactation' of biological men

Ffs these poor babies.

The £££££ that has been thrown in faking shit for men so they can cosplay womanhood while actual disease and illness is left to fundraise for its own research is sickening.

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OvaHere · 18/02/2024 19:01

BeautifulViews · 18/02/2024 18:43

What is the likelihood? And of women doing the same?

This comment gives away your faux just asking questions previous posts.

You know why these men are doing it and you appear to endorse it.

wubwubwub · 18/02/2024 18:57

@BeautifulViews

Well, seeing as rapists pretend to be women and then go into rape women... and seeing as every single man who wants to do this fulfilling their own desires over the needs of a tiny human being, who will be forced to suckle at a man's nipple...it's pretty fucking likely.

No man is doing this for the best interests of the child.

No man is doing this for the best interests of the mother who gave birth.

The only reason they're doing this is to satisfy their pretence that they are a woman.

Hundreds of thousands of women are unable to breastfeed, unable to get support or help with breastfeeding, they're unable to access counselling for "failing" to breastfeed their baby....but...noooo let's all support the man and his twisted idea of what it means for him to be a woman...

If the man pumping himself full of this crap to satisfy his desires, actually wants to lovte life as a woman...then he must accept that...not all women can breastfeed because if genetics/biology... It's one of the hardships of being an actual woman... But they don't want that. They want to play-act being what they think a woman is, considering only themselves and not the mother and certainly not the baby being fed this way.

Noseyoldcow · 18/02/2024 18:55

I refer you to the "Loretta" sketch in Monty Pythons Life of Brian. Any man who thinks he can be a natural woman, and do what women do naturally (gestate a baby, breastfeed it etc) is bonkers. And wants his head looked at. And whoever approved the funds for the ghastly experiment of dosing a man up with hormones to produce "chest milk" equally wants their head looking at. And the sack for misappropriating funds. The NHS is on its knees, and money is being spent on this tosh?

OvaHere · 18/02/2024 18:52

Kucinghitam · 18/02/2024 15:42

Except those who are so high on the fumes of their own Righteousness that they'd happily throw tiny infants into a bonfire of male sexual kicks.

Perfectly said.

BeautifulViews · 18/02/2024 18:43

crunchermuncher · 18/02/2024 17:10

What about the safeguarding concerns - the likelihood of men using unconsenting infants as props in their sexual fetish? does that not concern you at all?

If not, for Gods sake why not?

What is the likelihood? And of women doing the same?

BeautifulViews · 18/02/2024 18:39

Mumoftwo1312 · 18/02/2024 15:53

A full analysis of the lactate to see if it is the same as lactate from biological women

OK, I'll bite. I'll bite. You've already been shown on this thread that, for a start, the testosterone levels in male nipple discharge is orders of magnitude higher than in mothers' breastmilk, even mothers with particularly high levels compared to other women.

Then you said, but we'd need to do further research to see if that testosterone is harmless to the babies.

So which is it? Do we require the so called "lactate" [male nipple pus] to be identical or now we've proven that the male discharge is demonstrably very different, that might actually be ok after all, might it? How different does it have to be before we say, oh, that's not the same at all?

What other bodily fluids do we have to "prove" aren't equivalent to breastmilk? Saliva? Snot? Urine?

I've seen a photo of a TW expressing his nipples, when it was going around on twitter. He was expressing it into a gu pot or similar. That stuff was so viscous it was like cottage cheese, it formed a little mound in the pot. It did not resemble breastmilk in any way, it was closer in texture, from the look of it, to pimple pus. I'm not going to try and find the image, it made me feel nauseous at the time, but perhaps someone else can find it (but fgs put a sensitivity warning on the image).

"You've already been shown on this thread that, for a start, the testosterone levels in male nipple discharge is orders of magnitude higher than in mothers' breastmilk" This is false, I've been shown one review of a research paper that did not measure the testosterone levels in 'male nipple discharge' or anything else about it! I have repeatedly said we SHOULD test it if we are going to give it to babies. I never said we needed to research to see of testosterone is harmless to babies either.

Who has proven it's different? I keep asking for this research and nobody can supply it. If it is different people will have to accept that.

nobody is suggesting we give snot or saliva to babies as food so why test it? People are suggesting we give this so is it really outrageous to make sure it's safe? according to you they've already tested it!

Sounds gross but do you have a link to the video you mention?

SoupDragonsFriend · 18/02/2024 18:36

MrsOvertonsWindow · 18/02/2024 17:08

Flowers Something like this touches our natural instincts - the instinct to protect a baby, that instinctive reaction that tells you when something is wrong that makes you recoil. Men like this medical director are pushing us to suppress that natural protective instinct in favour of enabling those seeking to use babies for experimental reasons.

It's our protective instinct means that we will prevail in the long run. Because no matter what they say - only women give birth and only women can breastfeed. We must hold our nerve and hold onto what we know is true.

Thank you MrsO. It is the really deep knowledge that something is wrong, isn't it? And when you put that alongside the most vulnerable, such as a baby, the wrongness becomes raw and it's impossible to tell lies.

I'm a bit behind the times but have just discovered that the used-to-be-wonderful La Leche League, has been well and truly got. 😭

Datun · 18/02/2024 18:35

theilltemperedclavecinist · 18/02/2024 16:45

They're well up on it aren't they? Didn't the DT have a resident AGP writing all about his transition? Readers were paying attention!

Yes there was some twat called David Thomas. It was either him who described 'bouncing boobily', or someone else taking the piss.

I do remember him being a little disappointed that he hadn't been objectified in some way.

Total AGP (in my opinion HQ).

i'm very glad to see so many people understanding that this is a fetish, though.

Many women have known it, for bloody years. But the marketing of transgenderism as a neurological issue, or a born in the wrong body issue, or like being gay (how?) has gone a long way to try and bury that info.

So reading people in the comments in The Telegraph totally nailing it as a fetish, is very reassuring.

But yes, I understand women who are feeling very upset about this.

To take something so pure, nurturing and natural, and turn it into a fucking creepy load of shit, is very upsetting.

FannyCann · 18/02/2024 18:19

It will look like this

"Human Milk" ffs
FannyCann · 18/02/2024 18:18

Am I right in thinking an archived link will be deleted?

Go to the webpage archive.today and c&p the link from the telegraph article.
It has already been archived and will come up.
I don't think it allows access to comments though.

crunchermuncher · 18/02/2024 17:11

If a non trans dad wanted a newborn to suck on his tit just so he could share the experience with the mum, there would be uproar and he would probably be arrested.

Why are these special dispensations being given?

Helleofabore · 18/02/2024 17:10

theilltemperedclavecinist · 18/02/2024 16:45

They're well up on it aren't they? Didn't the DT have a resident AGP writing all about his transition? Readers were paying attention!

Yes, DT had DT - D Thomas is their name. Wrote a men's rights book under the name David Thomas.

crunchermuncher · 18/02/2024 17:10

BeautifulViews · 18/02/2024 13:58

A full analysis of the lactate to see if it is the same as lactate from biological women. People talk about it being full of drugs so that wouldn't be good, I have no idea what sort of drugs trans women take I thought it was just synthetic hormones but I am not very knowledgeable on the subject.

If the lactate turns out to be identical I don't see any problem with allowing trans women to feed their babies if they wish although continuing to give colostrum in the early days should still be encouraged. If it is not in any way nutritionally enough for a baby then I would want them to discourage people from doing it.

If the lactate is identical the potential benefit could be increased bonding with both parents and in some cases a baby being breast fed that would not have been otherwise. The potential harms appear to be the lack of colostrum, the lactate not being tailored to that baby as it would be from the biological mother. If the lactate is inferior or basically not human milk the potential harms are of course much higher and unless it is at least as nutritious as powdered baby milk, the use of it should be widely discouraged at the very least.

What about the safeguarding concerns - the likelihood of men using unconsenting infants as props in their sexual fetish? does that not concern you at all?

If not, for Gods sake why not?

MrsOvertonsWindow · 18/02/2024 17:08

toomanytrees · 18/02/2024 16:23

I'm a biological female who breastfed her children and I'm struggling to read this thread. It's making me cry.
Anyone else feeling the same?

Yes, and I don't cry easily.

Flowers Something like this touches our natural instincts - the instinct to protect a baby, that instinctive reaction that tells you when something is wrong that makes you recoil. Men like this medical director are pushing us to suppress that natural protective instinct in favour of enabling those seeking to use babies for experimental reasons.

It's our protective instinct means that we will prevail in the long run. Because no matter what they say - only women give birth and only women can breastfeed. We must hold our nerve and hold onto what we know is true.

theilltemperedclavecinist · 18/02/2024 16:45

Datun · 18/02/2024 16:37

The comments on that Telegraph article are all identifying this as autogynephilia. They are as disgusted as the women here, and saying that the NHS is allowing men to abuse babies to play out their sexual fetish.

They're well up on it aren't they? Didn't the DT have a resident AGP writing all about his transition? Readers were paying attention!

SoupDragonsFriend · 18/02/2024 16:42

toomanytrees · 18/02/2024 16:23

I'm a biological female who breastfed her children and I'm struggling to read this thread. It's making me cry.
Anyone else feeling the same?

Yes, and I don't cry easily.

Thank you for responses from other angry and upset people. I was going to send you virtual hugs and boxes of a well-known brand of tissues, but just to be sure I looked them up and they have apparently partnered with Disney to produce a 'rainbow collection' promoting 'LGBTQIA+' rights. 😢😢😢Sending virtual old fashioned handkerchiefs instead.

Datun · 18/02/2024 16:37

The comments on that Telegraph article are all identifying this as autogynephilia. They are as disgusted as the women here, and saying that the NHS is allowing men to abuse babies to play out their sexual fetish.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 18/02/2024 16:26

Chariothorses · 18/02/2024 16:17

@MrsOvertonsWindow Thanks- any chance of a Telegraph share token please??

@yesmen If drug induced secretion is no good, galactorrhoea? I have just read online 'Male galactorrhea is not milk. It's chemical induced, toxic, nutrition-less excreta.'

I don't think they do share tokens - it's the Times that has those. Sorry.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 18/02/2024 16:24

but I am not very knowledgeable on the subject.

It's abundantly clear. Do some reading up about the motivations of many males to "transition". Children aren't props.

toomanytrees · 18/02/2024 16:23

I'm a biological female who breastfed her children and I'm struggling to read this thread. It's making me cry.
Anyone else feeling the same?

Yes, and I don't cry easily.

Chariothorses · 18/02/2024 16:17

@MrsOvertonsWindow Thanks- any chance of a Telegraph share token please??

@yesmen If drug induced secretion is no good, galactorrhoea? I have just read online 'Male galactorrhea is not milk. It's chemical induced, toxic, nutrition-less excreta.'

Helleofabore · 18/02/2024 16:14

Helleofabore · 18/02/2024 12:04

I am going to plop some links and other stuff I have added to threads over the past years. Some may be repeats from what Eresh posted in lascap's work.

Testosterone

academic.oup.com/humrep/article/16/2/244/649618?login=false

I found a study that looked at the hormone levels in women breastfeeding. A breastfeeding women without PCOS has the following testosterone levels at 4 weeks and 8 weeks of breastfeeding :

Ng/ml
4th wk 0.13
8th wk 0.11

A woman with PCOS (ng/ml)
4th week 0.21
8th week 0.26

The male who fed exclusively for 6 weeks started with 2.56 ng/ml. That was with the suppression drug that was not noted to change in dose throughout this period. And that suppression is known to be unreliable so the level of testosterone may have fluctuated during the feeding time.

No testing of testosterone was done on this substance being fed to the infant from what I can see either. In fact, there was NO testing noted on that substance in this study!

What was the sex of the infant? What was the effect on that infant? What is the future effect on that infant?

Just adding to this.

So not only is testosterone suppression unreliable (as per the sports studies) so this amount of testosterone is not reliable in males suppressing testosterone. But also, testosterone reduces milk production. I have read that it was used to suppress lactation in some women.

So when people query that study where that male exclusively fed the infant, this is entirely valid!

So the studies out there on impact of testosterone taken by females breastfeeding only report on impacts on infant that are observable. Not long term at all.

At what point are these adults going to accept that their choices should not be automatically granted because they demand it or they claim special status. Remember, some academics with questionable ethics have stated female people who demand to take testosterone while pregnant should be given it because the risk of having a child with a disability should be dismissed because it is ablest. That these mothers should do what they want and if the child is impacted, well that is fine because avoiding that is ableist. (ie. A child living with an avoidable disability is not to be prioritised over the mother’s bodily choices)

MrsOvertonsWindow · 18/02/2024 16:11

Telegraph article (someone asked upthread for it):

1600 comments (increasing rapidly) and all as horrified as women on here and astounded that a senior NHS director would openly spout such dangerous lies, especially in relation to the safety of babies. Also many accurate comments about what's really behind this:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/18/trans-womens-milk-as-good-as-breast-milk-says-nhs-trust/

Trans-women’s milk as good as breast milk, says NHS trust

Drug-induced ‘chestfeeding’ liquid ‘comparable’ to that from mothers when it comes to baby nourishment, claim hospitals

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/18/trans-womens-milk-as-good-as-breast-milk-says-nhs-trust

yesmen · 18/02/2024 16:06

NoCloudsAllowed · 18/02/2024 15:17

Human milk is a common term in medicine, as distinct from formula and cows' milk. Doesn't have to be anything to do with transpeople.

Exactly right.

Therefore this secretion should not be called milk.

It needs a different name cleearly identifying what it is and pronto.

yesmen · 18/02/2024 15:58

SecondUsername4me · 18/02/2024 15:18

In this exact conversation, it has everything to do with it.

Absolutely.

As such we should NEVER accept the starting premise that this is "milk".

That world should never be used in conjunction with this secretion.

We saw what happened when we were nice about Woman.