It’s a woman’s calling

Exclusive spaces for women are threatened everywhere—locker rooms, bathrooms, female sports teams, and even breastfeeding classes. La Leche, an internationally acclaimed breastfeeding support and education organization, now welcomes biological males into its classes and spaces. 

La Leche’s website says they support “breastfeeding,” “chestfeeding,” and are inclusive of “gender identity.” Declare you’re a woman, and you’ve got a seat in a support group full of nursing mothers dealing with postpartum anxiety and life with a new baby. Lest you think this is only a few folks, La Leche’s Facebook group for “induced lactation” is over 13,000 members strong. Another group, “Breast or Chestfeeding Trans People” has over 7,000. 

In the early days of breastfeeding, I was very self-conscious, often choosing to leave the room or go to a private area in public. My son struggled with latching, and even getting help from the lactation consultant felt invasive to me. If a man were in the room where I was receiving help, I would leave and never return. 

La Leche’s attempt at “inclusivity” will actually exclude many of the women they were created to serve because women aren’t comfortable with male presence in this space. La Leche’s willingness to indulge the delusion that men can or should breastfeed is both stupid and dangerous. A man can never understand the fragile and vulnerable experience of postpartum motherhood. A woman’s brain, body, emotions, hormones, and thoughts are on fire then, working overtime to provide for and connect with their new baby. 

A newborn’s physical connection to its mother is important for its brain development and physical health, as the mother’s body naturally produces the nutrition that specific baby needs. A man’s body simply wasn’t made for this. There have been documented cases of men producing breast milk, but it’s rare and takes a combination of powerful drugs to induce. Sometimes, these drugs have been deemed unsafe for children. It is nonsense.

Little data exists on male breast milk, and there are no long-term studies, but progressive religionists say keeping men from breastfeeding can “isolate” and “harm” them. This is silly and certainly no excuse to use children as guinea pigs for untested, unnecessary, hormone-induced intake. 

Established medical bodies sometimes justify this obscenity. Just this year the United Kingdom’s NHS declared that drug-induced “milk” from male bodies is just as good as natural breast milk. Do people actually believe that hormone-laced and produced liquid is the same thing as a birthing mom’s milk? The health of the child, not the desires of a narcissistic parent, should be the priority. NHS, La Leche, and others care more about “inclusivity” than their duty to “do no harm.”

The push to help men nurse is to fulfill their fantasy of becoming entirely female—or worse, to perpetuate some sort of sexual impulse. There is absolutely no “need” for a man to breastfeed a child. Baby formula has existed for many years and has fed perfectly healthy humans since its inception. Because I had such a hard time with my first child, I chose not to breastfeed with my second, and she started on formula from day one. It’s a miracle invention that we can use and be thankful for. 

But it’s about the men—not the babies—in these situations. According to BabyCenter, also supportive of men nursing, some babies “chestfeed” for “non-nutritive” suckling, like with a pacifier.

Not to be left behind, The Lactation Network also supports men nursing children, cheerfully telling folks that “some trans women … have a full milk supply.” They encourage you to get started and “order a breast pump covered by insurance.” 

When La Leche started in the 1950s, it helped advocate for breastfeeding babies and persuaded millions of women to do so at a time when formula had become standard. This was good for babies and mothers, as a biological mother’s breast milk is the very best nutrition available. They were also the first to advocate for fathers in the delivery room, which was a positive development. 

But they’ve strayed from the mission, as they are now catering to men who will do anything to find affirmation as women. As we’ve heard from detransitioners, often the actions they thought would magically make womanhood or manhood “real” fail disastrously. The medical establishment and nearly every mainstream organization seem to bend to transgender folks, who demand the world adapt to their psychological condition. 

As usual, the victims in these situations are always the children, who have no rights and no voice. Biological reality exists, and no amount of hormones can change it.