"chest feeding" men should not be put above women and babies by La Leche League. Reasonable?

[GenerativeAIBot]

How many women will self exclude based on this outcome? How many children will suffer because of it? Anything more than zero is unacceptable

This is the direct and foreseeable outcome of ever allowing the word woman to be mutable. This is the ultimate outcome of all these progressive policies, generally well meaning, with terrible outcomes

https://archive.ph/NsquC

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/breastfeeding-charity-chief-quits-over-transgender-policy-zhvhl8nps

Identity politics should be dead and we need to bury it.

Affirming trans feels is more important than any women you filthy bigot.

For a second, I thought you were being serious with this tripe!

Amen!

How disgusting that male desires are being prioritised over the wellbeing of BABIES. FFS. It's child abuse.

This term is intended to be inclusive for transmen and not transwomen. I’m pretty sure that any transwoman who decided to breastfeed would not have a problem calling it breastfeeding and in fact would not want to call it chestfeeding instead.

If the policy were about trans men breastfeeding, nobody would be resigning over it.

The policies might be inclusive of both transmen and transwomen. But this thread was specifically about the term chestfeeding and that is inclusive for transmen, not transwomen.

I really don’t get it. Surely this is child abuse??

Encouraging a baby to suck the chemically induced secretions from a man’s nipple is so obviously child abuse that I have no words for the fact it is not just permitted but encouraged.

has everyone lost their fucking minds?

You'd think wouldn't you?

But no, the 'most oppressed' have found their way to be applauded for their fetish.

And we're just bigots for objecting to it.

Apparently not to trans and their enablers.

To sane people it's child abuse.

Exactly. It's already something that many women need support with. I can't believe LLL are abandoning all women who don't want men to watch them feed either.

They've lost it down under.

It wasn't long ago that breastfeeding in public was viewed as something abhorrent (very wrong obviously).
How the hell have we arrived at the point men can breast feed.. society is fucked.

The term "breastfeeding" is inclusive of anyone who is using their breasts to feed a baby.

If transmen don't have breasts, how are they feeding babies?

I guess they can if they haven't had a mastectomy.

This story has made my terfy blood boil even more than usual
so fucking sick of men elbowing in on every aspect of womanhood
there’s no such thing as chest feeding
it’s breastfeeding
only WOMEN can do it
i will die on this hill

I don't understand how a biological male can breastfeed, surely he has no milk ducts?

I can’t believe you’d commit ACTUAL VIOLENCE against our trans and non binary sisters by saying such things.

Just read some of those links posted and it's made me feel sick. wtf !! Can us women not have fucking anything of our own ? Those poor babies being forced fed.
Anyone seen that episode of family guy with Peter feeding stewie? Yeah...

This thread is very confusing because various people are using both "transwoman" and "transman" to mean 'biological male", and other people are using "transwoman" and "transman" to mean 'biological female", and 50% of posters think the issue documented in the linked article is about biological males and the other 50% think it's about biological males.

Some of those various people are arguing at cross-purposes with each other and in some cases neither party recognises that they're doing that.

This happens quite a lot on MN and it's always very frustrating to read. We really need the first post to be editable long after the 5-minute window, so that the OP can clarify when something turns out to be badly comprehended.

Interestingly that’s one of the big problems with trans language. Most people are not sure if a “trans woman” is male to female or female to male. The office of national statistics even screwed it up

Exactly. Real life is turning into an episode of Family Guy. It's farcical.