New Breastfeeding policy

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I've name changed because I am concerned about this being attached to my previous posts.

My organisation has recently launched a new breastfeeding in the workplace policy, which is great news. I didn't even mind the part about being mindful of language if the person identifies as non-binary or trans (think chestfeeding) What did bother me greatly is there is no mention of the word mother or acknowledgement that this is primarily a female issue and they didn't mention women once - all gender neutral.

I was really irrationally upset when I read it, angry and sad, why can't we have anything for ourselves, these are bodily functions of females only and we can't even have that anymore.

Feel for you OP. I'm breastfeeding ds and my dh is well aware he can't help as he's male. Most of the population know it's something women do but we are all executed to change OUR language to pander to the hurty feels of a few delusional AGPS 😠

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Not irrational at all. Nobody likes reality being erased. Can you provide feedback?

"being mindful of language if the person identifies as non-binary or trans"

How kind to take into account this tiny minority, respect their feelings and avoid erasing them.

How about being mindful of language for the majority of women who do not identify as non-binary or trans?

How unkind to ignore the majority, ignore their feelings and actively erase them.

Can you provide feedback, anonymously? (You could expand to say why you feel the need to speak out anonymously).

How kind to take into account this tiny minority, respect their feelings and avoid erasing them. How about being mindful of language for the majority of women who do not identify as non-binary or trans? How unkind to ignore the majority, ignore their feelings and actively erase them.

THIS!

You could phrase it as "I'm really worried the policy as it stands is rather exclusionary" then wait for them to come back to you before you say "to women"

Unbelievable that an organisation can happily eradicate women without a second thought. Only women breast feed ffs!

Email a copy with details of the organisation it to a journalist (the Mail or Times) - use a burner email if you don't want to be identified.

OP - if you've name changed then you could identify copy it here??

So, I have been brave and given feedback to the policy. I basically stated that I was really disappointed that by trying to be inclusive that they have excluded women and that the policy seemed cold and I sensitive and erased the role of mothers.

It says it was anonymous so I really hope that it is. I want to be brave and put my name to it but I can't at the moment. I tried and failed already to come out as GC and was basically told to keep quiet.

Well done OP.

Please don't feel a failure. Your first priority has to be to protect yourself - we have to do as much as is safe for us individually and you have been honest and courageous (while protecting yourself from some of the exceptionally unpleasant people involved with this bullying ideology).

Anyone who writes a breastfeeding policy that fails to mention the word woman needs to give their ignorant head a wobble.

You have done the right thing. When faced with this, we all have to be brave and stand up to this nonsense.

Thank you for saying something OP.

It's fucking bonkers that anyone would feel the need to "come out" as GC. What a fucked up world.

Well done for providing feedback, OP. Sadly women are, as ever, being sidelined in order not to offend the misogynistic.

Well done.
I also second an anonymous leak to the Times or the Telegraph. It's awful.