'Chestfeeding' to be banned in NHS crackdown

Ministers are very good at writing strongly worded letters, and public funded organisations are very good at putting them in the bin, knowing ministers will be blamed if anything goes wrong.

Oh, be kind.

Good. I hope if Labour win power at the next election they also continue this preservation of the rights of women. Chestfeeding terms have no place in the NHS.

lol. Ensuring the NHS stop using made up words like chest feeding and body feeding isn't compelled speech 😄

Although I do realise that all those creepy lactation fetishists will be a tad put out.

Being thick here...why can't you say breastfeeding?

Thank fuck for that! Now it’s just got to actually happen…

Well said

My drs used the term natal women when it came to smear tests, they further clarified that everyone with xx chromosomes who considers themselves transgender should arrange an appointment to talk to the nurse to confirm whether they still need testing.

Using words for their intended meaning is not compelled speech. It's using a fucking dictionary.

Compelled speech is authoritarian pomo bollocks rewriting the bloody dictionary so noone understands the meaning.

The whole point is plain simple English that as many people can understand without having to have a degree in word salad 'diversity training' because that's about as elitist as it gets.

Compelled speech is making people say words contrary to reality or their long established meaning and understanding by consensus not directive from a dictatrory individual or institution.

HTH.

I recommend The Word is Woman where Milli Hill documents the crazy erasure of the word 'woman'. La Leche League is one of those so desperate to be inclusive that it seems to overlook who does the vast majority of breastfeeding.

Common Misconception
Myth: "Exclusive bodyfeeding is what every family should do"

Fact: Families should be supported to feed human milk in the capacity they desire, are able to attain, sustain and enjoy.

Reach out to a Leader, we will always reach you where you are.
https://millihill.substack.com/p/the-word-is-woman-34

I think something that has changed is it’s now in mainstream news. I would consider myself as someone who follows current affairs quite closely but I was oblivious to all this until about 18 months ago.

The compelled speech is people being compelled to pretend that women, their breasts, and their uniquely female ability to breastfeed, do not exist.

If a transman mother wants natal care and breastfeeding support that does not mention terminology they reject or feel upset by, they are not compelled to accept accurate terminology. That support, written or spoken, can be provided using woman-erasing language if that person needs it. But it must not be the default. Woman-eating language harms women.

Lives were being put in danger by using nonsense terms like "person with a cervix". This is just restoring sense.

Agree with this and wanted to opt out and tell them why, but then I do genuinely use the reminders so have held my nose and haven't.

I was gonna start my own thread on this but will jump on here, I am GC but often more ‘live and let live’ type. However, I follow a lady called Kris Hallenga who set up a charity called CoppaFeel, and I have noticed their new branding is all about check your chest, rather than check your boobs. I am SO pissed about this as I think it’s genuinely confusing for people. My chest is around where my lungs are, or when you get a chesty cough. A different body part to boobs. I feel that this confusing messaging is actually putting women’s lives I danger and diluting the message of a very good charity. They are BOOBS, BREASTS, BOOBIES. Not chest. That’s a different body part. Rant over.

Sorry? What?! BODYFEEDING?!!
That's insane - if you didn't know the background you'd be forgiven they were thanking about cannibalism!

The NHS have been calling things by silly names and now they're hopefully going to stop. That is all.

About time !

I have a suspicion that Labour will quietly not object.

Spidey senses are tingling.

I thought you were against policing language and compelled speech.
I guess you think it's OK when it's in a way you agree with.

Will anything change before the general election, though?

NHS trusts can quite plausibly say they don't have time to re-write all their publications immediately, and by the time a review takes place we might have a different government.

Hullafuckingloojah.

The worst bit is its gong to cost a fucking fortunate to update everything now because they did this in the first bloody place. As if this was ever a good spend of precious maternity funds. Exactly WHO benefitted from it? It wasn't women.

Perhaps they'll stop inviting "anyone who has a cervix" to have smear tests now too then, and save some ink by just inviting women.

Sajid Javid said this in 2022. Steve Barclay said this in 2023. And now Victoria Atkins. The NHS is not listening to any of them and it needs to be enforced somehow.

Fantastic

Keep going