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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…
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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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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,…
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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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March with Midwives – Inclusion and Exclusion
Anna is a midwife and part of the With Woman collective. She writes about the challenges facing midwifery in the UK; the grassroots movement March with Midwives; and their exclusion of women who hold and express feminist beliefs. This article was first published on Womans Place UK on 28th November 2021…
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‘Men, non-binary, or something else’….No, AIMS. Sorry. They’re all ‘women’.
When it comes to knowing your choices during pregnancy, birth and afterwards, if you’re in the UK, you need AIMS, the Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services. For over 60 years, they’ve pioneered a woman-centred approach to maternity care. AIMS has always recognised this work as political. Of course…
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Open letter to the BPAS Board of Trustees and Senior Management Team
Please sign our letter to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) This is an open letter to the BPAS Board of Trustees and Senior Management Team in support of their recent strategy document, in which they explain why they feel it is important to retain the word ‘woman’ when delivering…
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Families do not breastfeed, mothers do…and we need to say so
Madeleine Munzer Sydney, Australia This article was first published in World Nutrition https://worldnutritionjournal.org/ind…/wn/article/view/825 It seems obvious that support for mothers is central to global breastfeeding advocacy. The Global Breastfeeding Collective, WHO and UNICEF all emphasise the importance of supporting mothers to breastfeed their infants (World Health Organization, 2018b; Global Breastfeeding…
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