Category: sex-based language
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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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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.
With Woman 