• Q&A: Answering back!

    Q&A: Answering back!

    Text and pictures: Heather Welford Q&A: answering back!  Why our sex is important in health and maternity communications…and how you can meet the challenges.  With Woman now have years of experience encouraging a focus on women’s health and maternity care in policy, in campaigning and in discussions and communications about sex and gender identity.  We’re…

  • Guest post: Follow-up statement from concerned La Leche League GB trustees

    Guest post: Follow-up statement from concerned La Leche League GB trustees

    LLL has always been a mother-to-mother support organisation. It is by breastfeeding mothers for breastfeeding mothers. To suggest that LLL has always supported males is simply not true. A minority of trustees of LLLGB, together with the current majority of the LLL International board, are attempting to rewrite history.

  • Letter circulated to La Leche League Leaders misrepresents objections of trustees.

    Letter circulated to La Leche League Leaders misrepresents objections of trustees.

    A letter from a group of 28 self-appointed La Leche League (LLL) Leaders was distributed via social media on 2 May. The letter, seen by With Woman, in our view seriously misrepresents the position of the majority of trustees, claiming falsely that they seek to exclude mothers who don’t identify as women from LLL meetings.…

  • Guest post: Statement from the concerned LLLGB trustee group defending sex-based rights

    Guest post: Statement from the concerned LLLGB trustee group defending sex-based rights

    Pressure to abandon mother-only breastfeeding services has been building internationally at LLL for several years as gender-identity activism has gathered force. We are now at the point that group leaders around the world are being told they must support ‘male lactation.

  • In the post – our letter to WHO

    In the post – our letter to WHO

    We sent a letter to the World Health Organisation & the leader of their Maternity panel. We object to the proposed formation of a group to develop guidelines on trans healthcare, with no specialist input on mother & child health. We are With Woman, a grassroots collective of female midwives, healthcare workers, allied professionals, academics,…