Legal action over telling the truth
The march of stupidity continues.
A Victorian breastfeeding expert is facing legal action over a series of social media posts denying that transgender women can breastfeed.
Jasmine Sussex is being taken to Queensland’s Civil and Administrative Tribunal by a trans mother after labelling attempts by transwomen to breastfeed their children “experimental’’ and calling it a “dangerous fetish”.
Ms Sussex raised concerns about Queensland trans mother Jennifer Buckley – who was born male but later transitioned into a woman – taking hormones to grow breasts and induce lactation to breastfeed her newborn baby.
No he didn’t “transition into a woman” – there is no such thing. He later started to pretend to be a woman.
The Victorian woman is preparing to be called before the Tribunal after Ms Buckley alleged that she had vilified her online, calling her statements “hurtful”.
Hurtful shmurtful. Try thinking about the wellbeing of the baby instead of your revolting fetish, dude.
Ms Buckley said she had begun transitioning but was able to conceive using IVF, meaning she is the biological father.
Imagine being a journalist and writing that ridiculous sentence.
Shebegan taking hormones to stimulate milk production asherwife prepared to give birth becauseshewanted to breastfeed as well.“For the past 6 weeks I have been taking a drug called domperidone to increase prolactin in an attempt to be able to produce breast milk so that I can have the experience of breastfeeding,”
shewrote in a Facebook post. The drug domperidone is traditionally an anti-nausea medication.
And it’s just a brilliant idea to feed a baby superfluous medications so that its selfish piggy father can pretend to be a mommy.
Ms Buckley, who described herself as a “loving mother of a beautiful little boy”, told the Saturday Herald Sun her wife had encouraged her to try breastfeeding following advice from her endocrinologist. She said she was told it was “no different to inducing lactation in non-pregnant mothers or those mothers who are not producing enough milk”.
The people who told him that are insane. Of course it’s different from inducing lactation in women. Women can lactate; men cannot lactate. Inducing artificial “lactation” passes the artifice on to the baby, which is not a good idea. Primum non nocere, remember?
They’ve all lost their damn minds.
The father is willing to give the baby milk of a dubious quality, essentially experimenting on the child. The wellbeing of the child is less important than the father’s fetish.
Queensland is not exactly the most progressive state in Australia, but even it must have laws that safeguard the welfare of babies, infants and children o all ages,.and which protect them against mistreatment by pretenders, and the purveyors of this sort of bullshit.
As an old song used to say, “You can’t always get what you want.” Selfish piggy indeed.
It’s not strictly true that “men cannot lactate”. It is very rare but it does happen. See the Wikipedia article entitled “Male lactation”. Don’t bother with refs. 7 and 8, but ref. 6 seems to be legitimate and untouched by modern trans claptrap.
Yeah, maybe males can breastfeed (just say no to ‘chestfeeding’) but that in no way indicates that it’s a good idea.
While it’s possible for for men to produce lactate, either naturally or by pharmaceutical intervention, what isn’t possible is for them to produce it the way women do. The nutritional balance between proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and so-on in a mother’s milk changes to meet the needs of the growing infant; the milk she produces for a newborn will have a different composition from that produced when the child is six-months old and that will differ from that produced six months later. This is why infant formula is made to be age-specific; you don’t want to be feeding a twelve-month-old with formula for a newborn, and vice-versa, because the nutritional needs change with age. So yes, men might be able to produce something akin to breast milk, but it won’t be the milk that a baby needs for healthy growth.
Baby schmamy. “Healthy growth” is a Western, colonial, hegemonic, cisheteronormative fetish that denies these men the validation and affirmation that is so much more important. It’s almost as bad as insisting that trans identified females stop taking T during pregnancy, because to do so might interfere with the proper cultivation of a really convincing, full, male-signifying beard.