So this looks like Scot Gov has gone tits up again

[Cismyfatarse]

‘Queer Milk’ charity gets public money to promote chestfeeding

https://www.thetimes.com/article/c6b5d0e2-e98d-4617-807f-2aa2c88cc3f3?shareToken=fb57bb72e49dc4450fc92479f5900e75

That is pretty clear.

And yet not only do we see support for male people feeding untested secretions to infants from their nipples, we also have seen the argument that any female who wishes to take testosterone throughout their pregnancy should be supported, when we know that testosterone causes health issues during pregnancy for both mother and the foetus. And that development may be impacted.

I remember that the group who campaigns for female people to continue to take testosterone even accused women of being ableist bigots when women pointed out the issues.

Did JS need to go to the “safe room” to deal with his anxiety over being asked questions in the Scottish Parliament? 🤨

LGBT Health and Wellbeing CEO, Chair of the Board, Vice-Chair of the Board: all male. Because of course they are.

I won't link their "Our Team" webpage, because that's been deleted in the past (different charity), but it's not difficult to find.

ps. But check it quickly, if you are interested, before they start deleting pages!

The LGBT Healthy Living Centre (known as LGBT Health and Wellbeing) is recognised as a charity by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, no. SC034216.

I do hope that this is picked up by the media more widely. It's such a clear expose of how children are being used by proponents of this ideology to indulge their fetish.

There is no good reason for this. The NHS has spent a lifetime promoting and supporting women to breast feed their babies. Yet in Scotland they're suddenly throwing money at proposals to enable a group of men to undermine mothers breastfeeding their babies. And pretending that male bodily secretions are equivalent, despite all the evidence that proves they're not.

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LGBT Health and Wellbeing

What about the Health and Wellbeing of BABIES?

It’s always all about their wants. Men enabling men. Through the ages.

Also registered as a company on Companies House

LGBT HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE
Company number SC246290

ed. 14 active Directors and 1 Secretary

I have no words. Appalling.

Does any fucker ever ask WHY 'Lactation induction in transgender women is a clinical and research priority in the field of breastfeeding medicine', HOW it came to be that 'Lactation induction in transgender women is a clinical and research priority in the field of breastfeeding medicine' and WHO THE FUCK decided that 'Lactation induction in transgender women is a clinical and research priority in the field of breastfeeding medicine'?

Sick fuckers. Since when it is acceptable for a grandfather to have the right to experience the bond of breast feeding. Why would a daughter allow her child to be abused in this way?

So, women, you thought that once pregnancy was over, you'd have a spot more bodily autonomy. No more lectures about half a glass of wine once a week, slowlt downed over the course of an entire evening, or lectures about avoiding soft cheese and not so much as looking at a cat.

But if you plan to breastfeed, be careful about garlic, onions, alcohol, over the counter painkillers, antibiotics and, well, an endless list, really. Otherwise your baby could suffer untold damage!

But if you're a TIM, just stuff down all these hormones with unknown impacts for the baby at the other end, so that you can 'lactate'. It'll all be fine!

As ever, one rule for the blokes and another for the women.

Re Katie Hinde's research noted earlier by @Helleofabore, when I BF my DC 25+ years ago, there was already information available on how breastmilk adjusts to the age and condition of the baby. And anyone who has BF will remember the 'feeding frenzy' episodes, when the baby wanted to feed every half a hour for a day or two to increase supply.

Breastfeeding is an incredible physiological mechanism, so obviously men have to be able to do it too...

Much more important to find out how they can rather than using the money to fund research into, oh, dunno, treatments for MND or Alzheimer's, or even just fixing the potholes.

a positive experience for our patient.

Says it all right there. It was "a positive experience" for the deluded, narcissistic man. I bet it was!

When did breastfeeding become an "experience" for a man, rather than food for a baby?

Telling that we are 3 pages in and silence from the TRAs extolling the benefits of biological male attempts at breastfeeding.

True. Let's hear it, boys! Explain to us why this is fantastic for the babies. With evidence, please, none of this "lived experience" crap.

(You might want to go easy on the "how it was fantastic for you" though, you're likely to get deleted or banned by MN!)

Tempest (took Defra to court) joined breastfeeding staff networks at work. Can someone send this thread to Naomi Cunningham? I feel even more sick now, and also on behalf of female colleagues 😢

A very revealing recommendation from that report about the secretion expressing grandfather:

"Future research in this field should prioritize cohort studies of transgender patients who desire lactation to further assess patient attitudes, experiences, and outcomes"

Not a word about whether the drug induced secretions are safe or healthy for babies - all about male desires 😡

This whole thing is sinister and predatory. Using babies, experimenting on babies to satisfy a male fetish.
I suppose in a world where trading in babies is now acceptable, of course they can be experimented on to aid a sexual fetish

I remember being told very clearly two decades ago that our bodies responded to the age and the stage our babies were. Also the heat. I remember reading even then that our bodies added more water to the milk when it was hot.

There is none of that available for any male person. I genuinely have been at a loss as to why countries health services have allowed male people to do this, let alone providing the services to ‘assist’ them to do it.

Did he?? That is very inappropriate.

As a Scottish tax payer I'm not remotely happy with this. What a complete waste of money. The government should be focusing on the need for the basics ie housing, education, life defining health which does not include "experiences" for men kidding themselves on that they have real milk producing mammary glands.

If anything, money should be given to studies focusing on how real women can improve their natural milk production.

And no, I don't see any contradiction in that.

Fear of saying no? Creepy joy at saying yes? Laissez-faire attitude towards women, children, experimentation on children, women's right, children's rights? Salivating at the thought of millions in grant funding for research, to be used to prop up and enhance their own careers? Salivating at the thought of other unmentionables to be found only on their hard drives during a police search?

I am considering writing to my (Lib Dem) MSP about this. In fact, I might do the whole list. I am utterly incensed. There are a multitude of things this money could be spent on even within the LGB community - education around risky sexual behaviour, for example. Woeful Sex Ed in schools for gay and bi pupils could be improved. Not to mention all the other health areas - MiL is on her 3rd year of waiting for cataract surgery; I am on year 4 of waiting for a bone scan for osteoporosis.

Sadly the Scottish Parliament is in recess until August 30th. Gives me time to figure out which of my list MSPs is most likely to ask the question.