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Man who transitioned to female sues expert for discrimination after being told breastfeeding was delusional

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IwantToRetire · 11/11/2025 18:58

A transgender mother who underwent medical treatment to breastfeed her newborn son is suing a breastfeeding expert who publicly dismissed her experience as a 'delusional queer theory take'.

Former Australian Breastfeeding Association volunteer counsellor Jasmine Sussex will face a Queensland tribunal next year over claims she discriminated against Brisbane transgender woman Jennifer Adrian Buckley.

The tribunal will decide if Ms Buckley was discriminated against under the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act over a series of social media posts by Ms Sussex.

Article continues at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15274697/Jennifer-Buckley-Jasmine-Sussex-transgender-breastfeeding.html

NB Use of propouns at those in the article. So any complaints should go straight to the DM!

Mum in legal battle after expert's online comments about breastfeeding

'Mothers and babies deserve better than this', the breastfeeding expert said.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15274697/Jennifer-Buckley-Jasmine-Sussex-transgender-breastfeeding.html

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AstonScrapingsNameChange · 11/11/2025 19:29

These bloody men never think of the babies.

Helleofabore · 11/11/2025 19:27

Here is an Article from The Australian.

https://archive.is/kyPZF

Jennifer Buckley v Jasmine Sussex: test of science and freedom of speech as Queensland tribunal prepares to hear case over breastfeeding

Author: Jamie Walker 7 November 2025

Jammington · 11/11/2025 19:22

'To know I could breastfeed my own child and have that experience, I wanted to be a part of that. I wanted to know what it was like to be a mum and breastfeed.'

I. I. I. Me. Me. Me.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/11/2025 19:22

Ugh.

Helleofabore · 11/11/2025 19:20

http://archive.today/ekhDf

The archive link to one of the original articles about Buckley.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10859287/Transgender-paramedic-breastfed-newborn-baby-know-like-mum.html

A transgender mother who was born male has described how 'breastfeeding' her baby an hour after her wife gave birth to the boy helped affirm her as a woman and she feels proud.
'Being a trans woman I can't carry, it's one of the limitations of it all,' Ms Buckley told Daily Mail Australia.

'To know I could breastfeed my own child and have that experience, I wanted to be a part of that. I wanted to know what it was like to be a mum and breastfeed.'

The controversial practice has been criticised by specialists as experimental and unethical but Ms Buckley believed she had the right to breastfeed her infant.
The 41-year-old would never be able to carry her own baby but began medically transitioning into a woman in 2017 after years of feeling she was female.

Then

'I will never know what's it like to menstruate or carry a baby or give birth,' Ms Buckley said.
'But to be told I could have the opportunity to breastfeed, it was something that was nice to be able to experience as a trans woman.'

Ms Buckley said her endocrinologist had suggested she try to produce breast milk a couple of months before her wife gave birth.

Then

'The first time it came out I just started leaking,' Ms Buckley said. 'Then I pumped and it was a weird feeling having a suction cap suck out milk, but it was exciting.

'I thought, "Oh my God, I am actually producing human milk".'

HermioneWeasley · 11/11/2025 19:16

These men are dangerous and there are no words for the women who hand over their babies to act as validation tools for them

IwantToRetire · 11/11/2025 19:14

Archive link to full article so no need to go to DM site
https://archive.is/F1w7X

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Dragonasaurus · 11/11/2025 19:14

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to the mother, who is prepared to put the delusions of her partner above the health and well-being of her baby

Very sad for Jasmine Sussex, who has been providing her expertise as a volunteer and is just trying to do her best for a baby

IwantToRetire · 11/11/2025 19:12

Well the full story is yet another saga of a woman's life is destroyed for speaking the truth.

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MarvellousMonsters · 11/11/2025 19:11

IwantToRetire · 11/11/2025 19:05

And expert looses her job and management groups demands she agrees not to ever talk about it.

I didn’t click the link as I don’t want to add traffic to the Daily Mail.

IwantToRetire · 11/11/2025 19:05

MarvellousMonsters · 11/11/2025 19:00

”male fetishist demands breastfeeding expert lies about science”

gross.

And expert looses her job and management groups demands she agrees not to ever talk about it.

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MarvellousMonsters · 11/11/2025 19:00

”male fetishist demands breastfeeding expert lies about science”

gross.