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Can transgender women breastfeed?
The Economist ^ | 2/23/24 | The Economist

Posted on 02/25/2024 11:23:33 AM PST by DallasBiff

Biological males may have a latent capacity to produce small amounts of milk

THE MALE breast is an evolutionary enigma. Human males are born with nipples and milk ducts—traits that appear early in embryonic development, before sex differentiation. What is more mysterious, however, is why male mammals of all kinds have not evolved to use this equipment to feed their offspring. The plumbing is intact: human males are known to be able to produce a milky nipple discharge in rare circumstances. That phenomenon is now in the spotlight after one trust in England’s National Health Service (NHS) stirred controversy in February by concluding that milk from transgender women—that is, biological males who identify as women—was the “ideal food for infants”. Is this true?

(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: breastfeeding; chat; chestfeeding; darwin; domperidone; donatefreerepublic; homosexualagenda; jimknows; nothanks; notnews; recognizemeplease; theeconomist; transgender; uk; weallknow; xyxx
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To: DallasBiff

Next thing you know you will deny litter boxes for “furries”!


41 posted on 02/25/2024 1:47:25 PM PST by 2nd Amendment
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To: DallasBiff

Suuuuure ... and “transgender men” can have an erection ... in their dreams.


42 posted on 02/25/2024 1:59:14 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: libh8er

“Even in a hypothetical scenario where saving a life is at stake, it is never okay to misgender a transgender person.”

If the endangered life is the transgender, I concur. You plays the game, you takes your chances.

Unless the transgender owes you money.


43 posted on 02/25/2024 2:30:38 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: DallasBiff

Plenty of good milk in the supermarkets. The level of mental illness gets ever deepening. People this delusional should be placed on funny farms. They have no place in every day society


44 posted on 02/25/2024 2:52:22 PM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: DallasBiff

“Human males are born with nipples and milk ducts”

MAMMALS


45 posted on 02/25/2024 5:33:26 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: DallasBiff

First article on this BS I read said the transgender-identifying man chestfeeding a 5 month old baby said he only chestfed, and produced 8 oz drugged milk. Those children would starve on that. Plus, the drug they take, Domperidone, causes heart problems in the child. Plus, I keep websearching and have yet to find scientific nutritional analysis of that drugged milk. The UK group that recommended it didn’t list any nutritional studies. This is total BS, until I see a complete and thorough nutritional analysis from a trustworthy science group.


46 posted on 02/25/2024 5:40:28 PM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: DallasBiff

No, but they are good at being psychos.


47 posted on 02/25/2024 5:43:22 PM PST by dforest
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To: DallasBiff

There are no “transgender women” - they are men. They cannot give birth and do not have mammary glands, so no, they cannot breast feed and are not mothers.

The fact that such an article could be written with that kind of headline in a once respected major publication is a testament the literally insane times we live in.


48 posted on 02/25/2024 8:47:50 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: DallasBiff

There already is talk of uterus transplants so men can have babies too. This whole gender bending has reached unimaginable levels of absurdity.


49 posted on 02/26/2024 7:55:06 AM PST by The Great RJ ( )
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To: No name given
They need Jesus!

This concept is never mentioned in scripture, so we should stop it!

What they need is a Holy Spirit revelation of their sins to them, in the most brutal, profound way imaginable. otherwise, Jesus cannot mean squat to them.

50 posted on 02/26/2024 10:36:29 AM PST by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: fwdude

That’s right. They need the Holy Spirit to push them to Jesus Christ.


51 posted on 02/26/2024 11:10:20 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: No name given

In other words, they need to NEED Jesus.


52 posted on 02/26/2024 11:14:49 AM PST by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: fwdude

Correct.


53 posted on 02/26/2024 11:15:03 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: libh8er

What a ridiculous load of blather and drivel!

That’s not Artificial Intelligence, it’s Artificial Idiocy.

People on FR have been condemning this sort of “AI” as Garbage In / Garbage Out.

I disagree: I think it’s Garbage Algorithm / Garbage Out.

“GIGO” and “GAGO” are two distinct problems.


54 posted on 02/26/2024 11:19:00 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: The Great RJ
This whole gender bending has reached unimaginable levels of absurdity.

It reminds me of "Gulliver's Travels", specifically the Voyage to Laputa ...

55 posted on 02/26/2024 11:24:01 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

GAGO - Garbage Algorithm/Garbage Out. This I must remember, since Google showed the world its effects.


56 posted on 02/26/2024 6:44:40 PM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: Grampa Dave

Perfect quote from Theodore Dalrymple.


57 posted on 02/26/2024 6:59:38 PM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: fwdude

Scripture says man should not dress as a woman. Finito.


58 posted on 02/26/2024 7:04:19 PM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: DazedVet

This I’ve gotta read. From Fauscist?


59 posted on 02/26/2024 7:05:52 PM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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