To be offended by the term ‘Chestfeeding’

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The Breastfeeding Network (UK) has just shared an article on Facebook from Kellymom about trans people and the term ‘chestfeeding’ and that people should be asked what they would like it reffered to as by their health visitor-having not read a lot about the trans movement I am a bit behind on it all but this term has really got up my nose ! I’m tired and hormonal btw so any other day it may not have bothered me enough to post on the internt about it 🙄

Thanks for all the replies !
The comments on the Facebook post are being monitored by the breastfeeding network now incase someone is offensive when I find the fact they’ve entertained calling it chest feeding offensive 😂 if anyone ever said it to me in person I think I would just start shouting BREASTS! BREASTS! THEY ARE BREASTS !!! Because breasts are not offensive 🙄 ffs

I am offended by the word 'chest' as it goes against my gender identity.

I want 'chest' to be re-named as "body top" for everyone. Anyone who disagrees is denying my very existence.

Blanchedupetitpois
They’re just asking what you prefer. If you don’t like the term chestfeeding don’t use it. Surely it’s that simple? Whether you like it or not some trans people have kids, and they’re entitled to have their preferences met just as you are. It kind of sounds like you’re offended about other people being treated with the same respect as you, and that is really unreasonable.

Meanwhile all the other women have to suck it up in case 0.007% of the population might be upset that we have breasts and wombs and call ourselves women? The sense of entitlement at the expense of us boring un-special women is appalling.

Blanchedupetitpois 'They’re just asking what you prefer. If you don’t like the term chestfeeding don’t use it. Surely it’s that simple? Whether you like it or not some trans people have kids, and they’re entitled to have their preferences met just as you are. It kind of sounds like you’re offended about other people being treated with the same respect as you, and that is really unreasonable.'
Again, this may be what they're suggesting now. At what stage do they just say (as with loos) yk, this is double the work, why not just use the word chestfeeding for everyone as it is 'gender neutral'? This is what they do in New York. Not nursing, just chestfeeding. For everyone.
So no, you may not be given the choice.
You may be okay with chestfeeding, whether you chose it or not. I'm not okay with it. I don't consent.

if anyone ever said it to me in person I think I would just start shouting BREASTS! BREASTS! THEY ARE BREASTS !!! Because breasts are not offensive

Sure you would. You’d make a bit of a tit of yourself though, so to speak :)

And zero f*cks would be given

So a penis can be a female body part depending on the gender ID of the penis-haver but breasts cannot be male body parts even allowing for the gender ID of the breast-haver? Yeah, well, of course that makes perfect sense because...well...nah, I got nothing.

RibbonAurora for me a penis is a purely male organ of reproduction and urination, it does not feature anywhere in Female anatomy. A person who sees themselves as a woman and has a penis, is in fact a transwoman or biological man.

Because women don’t have penises 🤷‍♀️

I’m quite surprised this has come from the US tbh, as they seem to use the term ‘nursing’ much more than breastfeeding. Surely that’s totally gender neutral as presumably you can murder a baby with breasts of either gender. So why don’t they just use that for everyone?

Not murder! Nurse!! Bad autocorrect .

Aeroflotgirl I think you missed my point and possibly the irony question mark; I'm saying that, while willing to live and let live, I'm finding it very difficult to reconcile the convoluted reasoning and apparent double-standards behind certain tenets of transgender ideology. I'm NOT saying that I believe a penis is a female body part because I don't.

I prefer to refer to mine as dirty pillows

The only way a woman can have a penis, is if they have a strap on or it is made in the operating theatre. It is like a psudopenis.

It does follow that if a penis can be a female body part, that breasts can also be male body parts, should you follow that ideology. Therefore the need for such a term as 'chest feeding' is redundant.

I understand it is very far fetched. In fact a woman with a fully functioning penis, is a biological man or transwoman. Even those with genuine gender dysphoria get that. They just want to live as a woman, but they realise you cannot change your biology. The fact that they have to take medication to ensure that they have to feminise themselves and an operation to change their physical selves, bears the reality.

Men i believe have breast tissues too, just less of it. They can get breast cancer and im on a medication for over 18s as it can cause adolescent boys to lactate. Yanbu, breast is not an identification of gender but a type of tissue that produces milk.

Oy veh!

I can't keep up with it all. I just can't.

I mean, a breast is a breast. My auntie went to her chemo sessions along with another patient (male). They BOTH had breast cancer.
Why can't we all 'breast'feed? Chest feed? You can't 'chest' feed, anatomically speaking.

AveAtqueVale nursing doesn't translate into other languages spoken locally. That's the reason given for using chestfeeding and not the perfectly ordinary english word nursing.

Unless you were actually talking about murder in which case I don't know what to say. (Best bad autocorrect ever.)

Wtaf (excuse the language). Men have breast tissue therefore, whether trans or not a person producing milk and putting a child to their breast IS breastfeeding. How utterly ridiculous...”chestfeeding” 😂😂🙈🙈 Your chest is your chest and your breast is your breast...

How much more crazy can it get?

I really hope that in 12 months time this is well over with and we all just look and think "well that was all very odd". Sadly I doubt that will be the case.

Chestfeeding is a ludicrous term. Although it's probably a fairly accurate description of what I did with my babies given how flat chested I am . I suppose I'm living proof one doesn't need to be, er, overendowed to produce gallons of the stuff. You probably do need to be female though...

What next, "chest cancer"? Men have breast tissue (which can become cancerous) too and they're not campaigning for breast cancer to be renamed.

WELL there probably is a chest cancer that is different to Breast cancer.

And calling it chest or breast would indicate where it was. Which I would rather like any doctor to know if she was treating me.