Just as they say they are
Breastfeeding should be inclooosive.
Six trustees of a nationwide breastfeeding support group have been suspended for demanding that biological men be excluded from their services.
The British wing of La Leche League (LLL), which gives mother-to-mother support to those finding it hard to breastfeed, has been told by its US-based board of directors that the service cannot be single sex and they must support “male lactation”.
Also they can’t say “mother” and they can’t question gender ideology.
It’s perfectly simple, and easy if you’ll just shut up and pay attention. The baby learns to identify as getting milk out of Daddy’s nipples. Problem solved. Can we move on now?
One leader from LLLGB, the name for the charity’s British wing, said: “Many breastfeeding supporters like me feel utterly disheartened by the way our charity has become obsessed and sidetracked by sex and gender issues. In the most recent diktat, we were informed that our charity is not and ‘cannot become a single-sex’ charity.”
Indeed not! It must be a reality-denying charity instead. So much more interesting, don’t you think?
Late in 2023, a group of trustees questioned the US-led board, LLLI about its shift to gender ideology, and asked to remain single-sex.
In February 2024, LLLI told them: “We focus on providing breastfeeding support and understand the importance of making our spaces welcoming to all those who want to breastfeed or give their babies human milk. We don’t argue with parents or other leaders about how they identify; we accept them with respect, just as they say they are, and do not refer to them with words that conflict with their identity.”
“We are proudly, systematically stupid and credulous, and we bully any women who refuse to be stupid and credulous about men who want to ‘breastfeed’ infants.”
They suspended the six trustees, saying; “The continued promotion of LLL as an organisation that excludes people is damaging LLL’s credibility.” However, LLLI does allow groups in countries which do not accept trans rights, including many Muslim ones, to exclude biological men.
Oh does it. “Lesser breeds without the law” is it? How very colonialist of them.
La Leche League includes the feminine article in its name. Have they ever bothered to check if all milk identifies as female?
Male lactation….right….Poe’s Law in action
I find it interesting that they are worried about their credibility being damaged. That ship has sailed, and the train has left the station. We’ve gone so far down that road, that there isn’t enough gasoline to get back to credibility.
Well now that’s a whole new can of worms. Have they ever bothered to check if all chairs identify as female? Have they ever bothered to check if all books identify as male? Gendered nouns are a deep pool of mystery to people whose native language doesn’t gender most nouns.
Indeed. And it’s not consistent from one language to the next (sometimes even very closely related languages differ).
(There is evidence that the gender of a noun influences how speakers perceive objects–e.g., “puente” in Spanish is masculine while “Brüke” in German is feminine; Spanish speakers tend to assign more stereotypically masculine attributes to bridges (“strong”) while German speakers tend to assign more stereotypically feminine attributes (“elegant”). And for bilingual Spanish/German speakers, the results vary depending on which language they’re using.)
Innnnnteresting.
It’s been year since I studied this in grad school, but here’s a fairly recent study, this one looking at Polish. (I’ve just skimmed it, but it seems to be in line with the studies I’m familiar with.)