TWIBS: Gender Crits Come Out AGAINST Nourishing New Life
Is it right or wrong to feed a newborn babe? Two very different answers from the trans community and their opponents on the right.
by Alyssa Steinsiek
Are the cissies jealous of tgirls’ special powers of lactation?
The National Health Services trust, famous for coining the term “chestfeeding,” has started a whole new moral outrage by stating that trans women’s breast milk is “comparable to that produced following the birth of a baby.” You can scarcely imagine how absolutely normal people are being about this qualified scientific assessment!
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust made this claim about trans women breastfeeding in a letter to their campaigners, and not only are they right, the information isn’t even novel. And this isn’t the first time Assigned Media has written about trans women breastfeeding!
The short of it is that most, if not all, trans women who undergo cross-sex hormone therapy—which involves taking medication to raise their estrogen levels and lower their testosterone levels—will see the development of breast tissue identical to a cisgender woman undergoing puberty. That’s right! I know the haters think we all get implants or have devised some special means of thieving titties from cis girls, but we do just grow them puppies like every other chick.
Once you’ve got titties, it’s really just a matter of following the Newman-Goldfarb Protocols, a standard procedure designed to help cis women lactate when they’re having trouble producing breast milk for their babies after giving birth. In particular, this includes taking a drug called Domperidone, often prescribed off label to help encourage lactation in cis mothers. In trans women, it has the exact same effect.
What’s more, a study by Doctor Amy K. Weimer proved very conclusively that the milk produced by a trans woman is just as nutritionally beneficial for a newborn as a cis woman’s breast milk. The subject of Dr. Weimer’s study was a woman who wanted to know if she would be able to support her partner in the first few months of postpartum breastfeeding, which is… just so fucking cool?
How could you possibly fail to see how awesome that is?!
But God forbid a woman have a hobby, like nurturing precious human newborn life!
Lottie Moore, employed by UK political agenda machine Policy Exchange and supposedly the woman who uncovered the trust’s letter, described the trust as “unbalanced and naïve” for correctly asserting scientific facts. She describes trans women as “[men] on hormones,” which is sort of a fascinating philosophical statement, isn’t it? What, besides the endocrine system, informs our ability to grow breasts and breast feed? Does Lottie think that tits and lactation are part of an innate spiritual womanhood? Does she believe that chromosomal composition plays a part in breastfeeding?
If I had to guess, I would say Lottie hasn’t put a lot of thought into it beyond “ew” and “those disgusting transgendereds are at it again,” so I won’t linger too long on what sort of vapid thoughts flit in and out of her empty head.
Other public meltdowns about trans women breastfeeding include a woman with a quad-barreled name, Mary Elizabeth Lalage Wakefield, publishing an angry screed in a ghoulish rag called The Spectator where she describes the very notion of trans women providing nourishment to a child as “unforgivable.”
Mary Elizabeth Lalage Wakefield is so in touch with the masses that her father is Sir Edward Humphry Tyrrell Wakefield, 2nd Baronet, FRGS, and she can trace her highly impressive lineage through multiple families with honest to goodness coats of arms. Why, she’s directly related, through her mother, to the former Governor of Kenya* who was installed by the British Empire to put down the Mau Mau Rebellion! Isn’t that fascinating?
You have to sign up for a free account to read a couple Spectator articles a month, by the way, and I’m just not going to do that. I don’t actually care what Her Regency Mary Wakefield has to say, or what Lottie Moore thinks, or MP Rosie Duffield, or Maya Forstater, each of which had obnoxious, hate-fueled thoughts to share about this.
I don’t care, because I know that they aren’t interested in the undeniable beauty of a woman, a woman who has chosen to embrace who she is and live honestly, experiencing the intimacy of feeding her newborn child. They can’t even grasp the love and support of a trans woman providing for her newborn alongside her wife.
When they look at us, they see everything we do through a lens of senseless hatred. They will never see the humanity we share with every other human being, a humanity that includes such things as “loving our children” and “sharing a live with a spouse.” They don’t actually deserve my time, or yours. Stop thinking about them.
Instead, go learn about something wonderful, or wonderfully ordinary, a trans person is doing, and celebrate that.
*CORRECTION: This story originally referred to Mary Elizabeth Lalage Wakefield’s ancestor (Evelyn Baring) as having been the Governor of Rhodesia. This was true, but he also served the British Crown as Governor of Kenya. It was in Kenya where he brutally suppressed the Mau Mau rebellion.
Alyssa Steinsiek is a professional writer and video games nerd who hails from Appalachia but lives, laughs, loves in Rapid City.