Breastfeeding advocates and parenting gurus are voicing support for a transgender Winnipeg man [sic] who nurses his [sic] infant son in the wake of a motherhood support group’s refusal to allow him [sic] a leadership role inside the organization.
“La Leche League Canada’s decision is discriminatory,” said Annie Urban, who writes the popular parenting blog PhD in Parenting. “It is time for La Leche League to update its guidelines and recognize that breastfeeding is not exclusively a mother’s domain.”
What the… what did she just say?
La Leche League Canada (LLLC) recently informed Trevor MacDonald, 27, he [sic] could not lead support circles or serve as a breastfeeding coach because he [sic] identifies as a man, which contravenes the organization’s policy definition of motherhood. Only women can serve as leaders, according to LLLC policy. (Trevor uses “MacDonald” as a pseudonym.)
Per the pashas of political correctness, this will not do.
Elisabeth Sterken, director of INFACT Canada, a non-governmental organization that promotes breastfeeding, called LLLC’s policy “unacceptable.” …
[Moonbat social engineers] question LLLC’s binary understanding of “motherhood” and “fatherhood,” terms that are increasingly interchangeable in a world with a growing number of gay and transgender parents.
“I think La Leche League is holding on to some very traditional definitions of motherhood and fatherhood,” [chides] Andrea Doucet, Canada Research Chair in Gender Work and Care at Brock University. “What this case shows is that we really have to see these (roles) as fluid [so to speak] activities. If a man is breastfeeding, he’s breastfeeding.”
I really don’t think we want to go where this is heading.
Health Canada and the Canadian Paediatric Society recommend infant breastfeeding for at least six months. In addition to nutritional benefits, experts say breastfeeding helps tighten the emotional bond between child and parent, be it a man or woman.
In the grotesque alternate world the liberal elite has been attempting to impose on us, there literally is no difference between men and women. Liberals are so used to getting their way by bossing everyone around that they think they can boss around reality itself.
They are delusional, they are twisted, they are completely out of their minds, and they have been steering the course for our civilization — causing literally every problem we have.
Enough stalling. You were warned — here’s Ms. Trevor MacDonald:
Although I don't know, I imagine there are risks to breastfeeding a baby when you're taking testosterone. (Hopefully Trevor wasn't taking it while pregnant...)
ReplyDeleteIf Trevor grew up feeling like he was a boy trapped in a girl's body and decided to live as a man, that's fine with me. I do think, though, that having come to that conclusion, things that are clearly female stuff like pregnancy and breastfeeding are probably not a good idea. I also don't really get why you would necessarily want to get pregnant if you felt as though you were supposed to have been born male. In short: no problems with trans people, but I have to wonder about whether it's healthy for a baby if you get pregnant and breastfeed after taking testosterone.
As for the legal issues with La Leche League, they have the right to decide who can and cannot occupy various positions in their organization. Breastfeeding has social implications as well as nutritional and practical ones, and I'm not sure how well a transgender man would understand, through personal experience, some the social implications breastfeeding has for mothers.
Sorry, I can't resist:
ReplyDeleteEveryone loves Magical Trevor 'cuz the tricks that he does are ever so clever, look at him now, disappearing a cow. Where is the cow hidden right now? Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor, everybody's seen that the trick is clever. Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip! It's made of magic, and with a little flick-Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, the cow is back! Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, the cow is back! Back! Back! Back from his magical journey! What did he see, in the parallel dimension? He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans lots of beans, oh, beans, lots of beans lots of beans lots of beans, yeah, yeah!
Everyone had better just leave me alone then, because I identify as a 1979 Honda CB750. VROOM! VROOM! (careful, my choke sticks!)
ReplyDeleteI was wondering that myself, Marauder. Would breastfeeding even be possible when taking enough testosterone to produce that much facial hair?
ReplyDeleteTrevor sounds like the prochoice personhood fairy-ya know the one that waves the magic wand declaring you off limits for killing at some abitrary time chosen by random feminazis?
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