Last week the story of Daisy Strongin talking about motherhood went viral around the world. Daisy is a 25-year-old woman who in 2018 initiated a process to transition since he felt like a man. In 2020 overcame her gender dysphoria disorder, She stopped taking hormones and shortly after she met a man with whom she fell in love and with whom she married and has had two daughters. However, when this happened she had already taken a step irreversible: she had undergone a double mastectomy, something that has prevented her from breastfeeding her two babies, which has caused her a sadness that she herself shared through her account on X (Twitter).
If only I could somehow go back in time to 2018 and show myself these photos. Those are are not happy tears. This was her very first feeding. 40 minutes old.
I know breastfeeding does not work for every woman, but the hopelessness of my situation is hitting me hard this time. pic.twitter.com/kDh2vGD2av
— Daisy Strongin 🦎 (@DaisyIsNotHere) February 11, 2024
Daisy told her story to prevent other people in a situation similar to hers from mutilating themselves and potentially regretting it in the future. However, trans activists used the issue of breastfeeding to put a taboo issue back on the table for obvious reasons: trans men who want to be breastfeeding mothers. A topic that is also quite unknown to most.
LGTBI organizations hyped a recent study of NHS Trust, an institution associated with National Health Services of England and Wales (NHS, for its acronym in English) which assured that “the milk produced by trans women is comparable to that produced by biological women after the birth of a baby.” A scientifically unsupportable claim, as the NHS studies only lasted five months, and they further advise “any parent who is taking medication, for any reason, to seek advice about the possibility of that medication being transferred to the baby through the breastfeeding and also the implications for the baby’s health”, something that evidently also happens with hormones, such as progestina, which is being used for these cases, and domperidone.
The first case that was documented was that of a 30-year-old man who underwent hormonal treatment because he wanted to breastfeed his baby adopted in 2018. With the consumption of a medicine called domperidone, a medication that a priori is used for gastric problems, and using a breast pump he managed to produce a few drops of a whitish liquid that he gave to the girl.
Media from all over the world, including some Spanish ones like The country they echoed at the time of the event, although even the report in Grupo Prisa’s newspaper acknowledged that the United States Medicines Agency had been advising against the use of domperidone for 14 years and that the European Medicines Agency had requested to restrict its use in 2014 due to the heart problems that caused. However, several doctors then collaborated in having a newborn girl fed a liquid that could contain large doses of this product, since there are no studies on the matter. own Janssen, pharmaceutical company that produces domperidone, advises against it during breastfeeding due to “possible side effects on the baby’s heart.”
The British organization With Women, dedicated to promoting breastfeeding, issued a statement in response to the study stating that “the physiological link between the baby’s needs and its supply depends on frequent feeding, without interference from another source. Any service that cares about the well-being of the baby and the mother knows this: “Putting it aside in the interest of indulging a man’s desire to breastfeed is inexcusable.” However, other well-known prolactation entities internationally, such as La Leche League, have developed materials in several languages, including Spanish, to promote this unnatural and harmful practice for babies.
Although it has been practiced for years lactation induction for adoptive mothers —also with medications, so it is not completely proven that it is safe for babies— and the relactation For biological mothers who have had to stop breastfeeding for some reason such as mastitis or the need to take incompatible medications and then resume it, the trans and LGTBI lobby organizations now try to pass off as normal a practice that has no no proven benefit for children and many possible risks, just to satisfy the wishes of people with gender dysphoria.
Another viral case that a large part of the media tried to present as an advance in science was that of the Brazilian couple who responds to the names of Roberto Bete and Erika Fernandes, that in the summer of 2022 they had a child that was gestated by the woman with a transition process who identified as a man and the man with the appearance and felt identity of a woman. Although it may seem difficult to believe, the couple has hundreds of thousands of followers who follow their daily lives.
More recently, in July 2023, the british trans activist Mika Minio-Palauellowho has worked as an advisor for the Labor Party Brit, shared on social media a photo of himself having a baby he claimed was his son suck on his nipple. An image that sparked a lot of criticism and comments such as “a man with a baby sucking on his nipple is not breastfeeding.”
In the end, I only breastfed my child for a few weeks.
I then had to stop because I had a cancer relapse and didn’t want to poison my child.
Here’s me on the bus to hospital for the 1st chemo round, feeding my child for the last time pic.twitter.com/6gh3RP6tLr— Mika Minio-Paluello (@mikaminio) July 2, 2023
For its part, The NHS has maintained in statements to the British media that “babies will not be harmed.” for drinking drug-induced milk from the nipples of trans women. Some statements that cannot currently be proven, but that demonstrate the imposition of social policies and practices that satisfy the selfish desires of groups with strong financial support, forgetting the rights and needs of minors.