WIC Program (What is a woman?)

The United States Department of Agriculture ^ | by USDA

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) serves to safeguard the health of low-income pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and children younger than 5 years who are at nutritional risk. WIC served about 6.2 million participants each month in fiscal year 2021, including an estimated 43 percent of all infants in the United States. Federal program costs for WIC totaled $5 billion in fiscal year 2021.

Congress authorizes a specific amount of funding annually for WIC operations and has funded WIC each year since the late 1990s to serve all eligible applicants. To qualify for WIC, an applicant must be:

* A pregnant woman,

* A postpartum woman (up to 1 year if breastfeeding or 6 months if not breastfeeding),

* An infant, or

* A child younger than 5 years.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

What is a woman?

[norwaypinesavage]

Why are pregnant men excluded?

[BenLurkin]

There shouldn’t even be a WIC.

[bgill]

Not just men but every other gender letter of the alphabet and furries and broccoli and... Why exclude 35 year olds who dress and act like little kids?

Why consider pregnancies at all since those bellies contain nothing but blobs of cells.

Upside down world.

[Salman]

If a pregnant mentally ill woman who thinks she's a man applies, is rejected and complains, they will change the wording to "pregnant person" etc. And just go on as before.

But such people tend not to be on welfare.