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Besides, Deutsch said, efforts to coax transgender women to lactate have been going on informally within the transgender community for some time.
"I need to be honest with you, this has been happening for at least 10 to 15 years at least to my knowledge," she told AFP.
"This is just the first time somebody wrote it up."
These findings provide reassurance about the adequacy of nutrition from human milk produced by non-gestational transgender female and nonbinary parents on estrogen-based, gender-affirming hormone therapy
Breastfeeding/chestfeeding parents are routinely misinformed about drug risks and advised to stop breastfeeding/chestfeeding for surgery, viral and bacterial illnesses, pain relief, and other therapies. Most drugs pass into milk but do so in such trace amounts they are unlikely to adversely affect infants. Adverse effects must be weighed against the risks of milk substitutes, of which the public is also routinely unaware. An increasingly relevant example is that breastfeeding/chestfeeding is recommended among parents in pharmacological opioid dependence treatment programs, as trace opioid is less damaging to their vulnerable infants than formula preparations.
Notably, a greater threat to the illusive “purity” of human milk is not medication, but pollution. Researchers first found DDT in human milk in 1951, and we now have almost seventy years of evidence of widespread contamination of human milk with bisphenol A, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, hexachlorobenzene, and cyclodiene pesticides. Despite these findings, breastfeeding/chestfeeding remains the best food for infants. Efforts to improve human milk “purity” should focus on environmental regulation and restriction of polluting industries, not individual parents whose medication regimens are usually compatible with lactation.
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: carewemust
Just to be clear, a man that transitions to being woman has not got the equipment to get pregnant, but a woman-to-man transition may possibly still have functioning female 'parts'.
Tr ansgender pregnancy - Wikipedia
What are they trying to do, invent a whole new nation of freaks?
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: carewemust
Just to be clear, a man that transitions to being woman has not got the equipment to get pregnant, but a woman-to-man transition may possibly still have functioning female 'parts'.
Tr ansgender pregnancy - Wikipedia
originally posted by: AdifferentOpinion
Transgender women on bio-identical estrogens and often bio-identical progesterone do indeed develop natural breast tissue capable of lactation. A teat is a teat. This is nothing new as transgender people have known about this for several decades, however it was first scientifically documented in 2018 but has been going on for much longer.
From 2018 - Transgender women can breastfeed, first case study shows
Besides, Deutsch said, efforts to coax transgender women to lactate have been going on informally within the transgender community for some time.
"I need to be honest with you, this has been happening for at least 10 to 15 years at least to my knowledge," she told AFP.
"This is just the first time somebody wrote it up."
Induced lactation using the Newman-Goldfarb protocol is very common outside of the U.S. particularly for non-gestational parents such as those that adopt or have a child through surrogacy.
Lactation Induction in a Transgender Woman: Macronutrient Analysis and Patient Perspectives
These findings provide reassurance about the adequacy of nutrition from human milk produced by non-gestational transgender female and nonbinary parents on estrogen-based, gender-affirming hormone therapy
Transgender Women, Breastfeeding and Drug Regimens
Breastfeeding/chestfeeding parents are routinely misinformed about drug risks and advised to stop breastfeeding/chestfeeding for surgery, viral and bacterial illnesses, pain relief, and other therapies. Most drugs pass into milk but do so in such trace amounts they are unlikely to adversely affect infants. Adverse effects must be weighed against the risks of milk substitutes, of which the public is also routinely unaware. An increasingly relevant example is that breastfeeding/chestfeeding is recommended among parents in pharmacological opioid dependence treatment programs, as trace opioid is less damaging to their vulnerable infants than formula preparations.
Notably, a greater threat to the illusive “purity” of human milk is not medication, but pollution. Researchers first found DDT in human milk in 1951, and we now have almost seventy years of evidence of widespread contamination of human milk with bisphenol A, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, hexachlorobenzene, and cyclodiene pesticides. Despite these findings, breastfeeding/chestfeeding remains the best food for infants. Efforts to improve human milk “purity” should focus on environmental regulation and restriction of polluting industries, not individual parents whose medication regimens are usually compatible with lactation.
Many women begin taking birth control pills shortly after giving birth or smoke while still breastfeeding their infants so where's the outrage about that?
Personally, I think the term "chest feeding" is nonsense, for what that's worth?
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: carewemust
Oh no. I'm just gutted. This isn't at all what I thought it would be. What it should be.
These are babies who need -- NEED -- proper nourishment and nurturing. Not a male bodied person pretending to breastfeed a vulnerable infant. Whatever hormonal chemical cocktail these men are producing, it is not comparable to breast milk. This fluid does not provide proper vitamins and minerals in their proper amounts and ratios for growth and development. Nor does it provide the mother's antibodies which are crucial for health. And they have NO FRICKING IDEA what those chemicals and synthetic hormones will do to the baby, neither short-term nor long-term.
This is inhumane and a crime against humanity.
originally posted by: MrEnergy
a reply to: carewemust
Can you please quote where it says biological men in the CDC page you referenced. I skimmed it multiple times and could not find it. However, you quoted Foxnews, which to my understanding, has intentionally misinformed you. The CDC page says transgender parents, and as far as I know, a biological woman is completely capable of breastfeeding, even after damage has been done to the breasts, which they state in the CDC page you linked.
originally posted by: MrEnergy
a reply to: carewemust
Can you please quote where it says biological men in the CDC page you referenced. I skimmed it multiple times and could not find it. However, you quoted Foxnews, which to my understanding, has intentionally misinformed you. The CDC page says transgender parents, and as far as I know, a biological woman is completely capable of breastfeeding, even after damage has been done to the breasts, which they state in the CDC page you linked.
originally posted by: Boadicea
originally posted by: MrEnergy
a reply to: carewemust
Can you please quote where it says biological men in the CDC page you referenced. I skimmed it multiple times and could not find it. However, you quoted Foxnews, which to my understanding, has intentionally misinformed you. The CDC page says transgender parents, and as far as I know, a biological woman is completely capable of breastfeeding, even after damage has been done to the breasts, which they state in the CDC page you linked.
Not to speak for the OP, only speaking for myself, not mentioning male lactation efforts and results IS the problem. Because it is happening -- not often apparently, but if it's happening at all, then it needs to be addressed.
Given the covert and insidious tactics used to implement the trans agenda, and given that we know male "chestfeeding" is happening, it is not reassuring that males were neither included nor excluded by the CDC. It is, rather, disturbing and suspicious.
originally posted by: quintessentone
originally posted by: Boadicea
originally posted by: MrEnergy
a reply to: carewemust
Can you please quote where it says biological men in the CDC page you referenced. I skimmed it multiple times and could not find it. However, you quoted Foxnews, which to my understanding, has intentionally misinformed you. The CDC page says transgender parents, and as far as I know, a biological woman is completely capable of breastfeeding, even after damage has been done to the breasts, which they state in the CDC page you linked.
Not to speak for the OP, only speaking for myself, not mentioning male lactation efforts and results IS the problem. Because it is happening -- not often apparently, but if it's happening at all, then it needs to be addressed.
Given the covert and insidious tactics used to implement the trans agenda, and given that we know male "chestfeeding" is happening, it is not reassuring that males were neither included nor excluded by the CDC. It is, rather, disturbing and suspicious.
Are you implying the CDC is using covert and insidious science to implement the trans agenda?
I was just reading an article where biological men are capable of lactating, it's only a google search away.
originally posted by: Hecate666
originally posted by: quintessentone
originally posted by: Boadicea
originally posted by: MrEnergy
a reply to: carewemust
Can you please quote where it says biological men in the CDC page you referenced. I skimmed it multiple times and could not find it. However, you quoted Foxnews, which to my understanding, has intentionally misinformed you. The CDC page says transgender parents, and as far as I know, a biological woman is completely capable of breastfeeding, even after damage has been done to the breasts, which they state in the CDC page you linked.
Not to speak for the OP, only speaking for myself, not mentioning male lactation efforts and results IS the problem. Because it is happening -- not often apparently, but if it's happening at all, then it needs to be addressed.
Given the covert and insidious tactics used to implement the trans agenda, and given that we know male "chestfeeding" is happening, it is not reassuring that males were neither included nor excluded by the CDC. It is, rather, disturbing and suspicious.
Are you implying the CDC is using covert and insidious science to implement the trans agenda?
I was just reading an article where biological men are capable of lactating, it's only a google search away.
I once searched for this inane belief. Here is what I found then. It happens in a few males and it is absolutely not a mother's good, healthy milk. I don't know what it is but it's extremely rare, it's an abnormality and it isn't mother milk.
I won't share a link either, but would if you share yours. Which you won't because it will say the same thing I just said.
You would probably believe that what comes out of a bull's penis is as good as what comes out of a milk cow's udder. Just to further the insane agenda of feelz vs reality.
Chestfeeding: A term used by many masculine-identified trans people to describe the act of feeding their baby from their chest, regardless of whether they have had chest/top surgery (to alter or remove mammary tissue)