Category: Breast feeding
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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.
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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…
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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.
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Should trans identified men be supported to breastfeed? Why we say the answer’s ‘no’
Every so often, social media and the mainstream press get fired up with accounts of trans identified men breastfeeding. Here are a few The Post Millennial: Biological male celebrated for ‘breastfeeding’ newborn while the mother hemorrhages post-childbirth The Guardian: Transgender woman able to breastfeed in first documented case The Queer…
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Gender ideology: birth and breastfeeding organisations captured
No man can get pregnant, birth a baby or breastfeed, but even breastfeeding stalwarts such as La Leche League (LLL) have stated that male lactation is an area that needs more research. Why?
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Sex-based language: vital for women’s rights
But avoiding words such as ‘woman’ and ‘mother’ – sexed words, for females – hides the power imbalance. When you no longer speak about biological sex, the physiological, psychological and rights-based differences that affect women are rendered invisible.
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