CDC accused of ignoring science with ‘chestfeeding’ advice for transgender parents

[HARK!]

Critics on the right accused the center of seeking to appease the transgender lobby by promoting medically inaccurate information, arguing that biological males cannot nurse babies no matter how they identify.

“Biden’s #CDC now issuing guidance on how ‘men’ can ‘chestfeed,’” tweeted Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison. “The only ‘science’ they’re following is political science.”

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said, “President Biden’s policies risk the lives of children to advance the fantasies of confused adults.”

“How far will the Biden administration’s agenda go? If a president had proposed this just a decade ago, it would have prompted the use of Article 25,” said Mr. Perkins, referring to the U.S. Constitution’s procedures for replacing a president due to death, resignation or incapacitation.

CDC accused of ignoring science with ‘chestfeeding’ advice for transgender parents

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s reputation for impartial, science-based health advice took another hit with the release of tips on how male-to-female transgender parents can “chestfeed” their babies.

www.washingtontimes.com

 

[Yttrium]

Seems like a lot of trouble to go to when you can just mix up some baby formula in a bottle. But I never had kids, so what do I know.

 

[HARK!]

Seems like a lot of trouble to go to when you can just mix up some baby formula in a bottle. But I never had kids, so what do I know.

Men pretending to be women haven't given birth either.

 

[Yttrium]

Men pretending to be women haven't given birth either.

True. I wouldn't be surprised if someone tries some oddball artificial insemination trick in the future, though.

 

[friend of]

True. I wouldn't be surprised if someone tries some oddball artificial insemination trick in the future, though.

Goodluck without a womb

 

[Pommer]

Men pretending to be women haven't given birth either.

This could be right around the corner though.

 

[Mayzoo]

Men have breast very much like a woman's breast, which is how some men develop breast cancer. They do not have as many milk ducts, but they do have some. I suppose you propose when men are diagnosed with breast cancer, the medical community needs to cave and just call it chest cancer?

 

[Sabri]

Critics on the right accused the center of seeking to appease the transgender lobby by promoting medically inaccurate information, arguing that biological males cannot nurse babies no matter how they identify.

“Biden’s #CDC now issuing guidance on how ‘men’ can ‘chestfeed,’” tweeted Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison. “The only ‘science’ they’re following is political science.”

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said, “President Biden’s policies risk the lives of children to advance the fantasies of confused adults.”

“How far will the Biden administration’s agenda go? If a president had proposed this just a decade ago, it would have prompted the use of Article 25,” said Mr. Perkins, referring to the U.S. Constitution’s procedures for replacing a president due to death, resignation or incapacitation.

CDC accused of ignoring science with ‘chestfeeding’ advice for transgender parents

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s reputation for impartial, science-based health advice took another hit with the release of tips on how male-to-female transgender parents can “chestfeed” their babies.

www.washingtontimes.com

Crazy!!

 

[Sabri]

Men have breast very much like a woman's breast, which is how some men develop breast cancer. They do not have as many milk ducts, but they do have some. I suppose you propose when men are diagnosed with breast cancer, the medical community needs to cave and just call it chest cancer?

Stop! You know this is nit the same. Ludacris!

 

[Sabri]

Men pretending to be women haven't given birth either.

That’s just what i say. World of pretend. Make-believe, fantasy. Sad and we have to go along with the play.

 

[ThatRobGuy]

Since this is about the CDC write-up, I figure it's more useful to look at that directly rather than through the Washington Time punditry lens...

While I'm often critical of some of things that have been lumped in with the LGBT movement, this one in particular isn't as off-base.

So, if the staunch conservative talking point is "There's no such thing as transmen, just a woman who's confused", then why wouldn't that person be able to breastfeed? Same goes for people who identify as non-binary (I have some larger issues with that designation, and feel is often just a "catch-all" for certain progressives who "want to be anything other than cis/straight" so they can sit at the proverbial "cool table"... but that aside), a substantial number of people who identify that way are biological females (which, again, we know can breastfeed)

So the CDC hasn't really said anything inaccurate with regards to this one.

Is the outrage purely just surrounding the nomenclature they opted to include?

...because medical publications have used "pop-culture" terms before when referring to actual things.

For instance, if there was an article about vasectomies and the author opted to include the line "or as some people call it, getting snipped" or referred to tubal ligation as "getting your tubes tied", would it draw a huge amount of backlash?

 

[Mayzoo]

Stop! You know this is nit the same. Ludacris!

Male chest cancer (as the trend appears to be heading) is the same as female breast cancer. I agree and I am not all certain why we would want to rename based on the gender of the affected person.

 

[Sabri]

Male chest cancer (as the trend appears to be heading) is the same as female breast cancer. I agree and I am not all certain why we would want to rename based on the gender of the affected person.

Cancer is a medical diagnosis. We are talking about breast feeding. Chest feeding?

 

[civilwarbuff]

Since this is about the CDC write-up, I figure it's more useful to look at that directly rather than through the Washington Time punditry lens...

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While I'm often critical of some of things that have been lumped in with the LGBT movement, this one in particular isn't as off-base.

So, if the staunch conservative talking point is "There's no such thing as transmen, just a woman who's confused", then why wouldn't that person be able to breastfeed? Same goes for people who identify as non-binary (I have some larger issues with that designation, and feel is often just a "catch-all" for certain progressives who "want to be anything other than cis/straight" so they can sit at the proverbial "cool table"... but that aside), a substantial number of people who identify that way are biological females (which, again, we know can breastfeed)

So the CDC hasn't really said anything inaccurate with regards to this one.

Is the outrage purely just surrounding the nomenclature they opted to include?

...because medical publications have used "pop-culture" terms before when referring to actual things.

For instance, if there was an article about vasectomies and the author opted to include the line "or as some people call it, getting snipped" or referred to tubal ligation as "getting your tubes tied", would it draw a huge amount of backlash?

Where is the link for this?
The one that is 'shown' simply does not give any supporting evidence for your statement......

 

[ThatRobGuy]

Where is the link for this?
The one that is 'shown' simply does not give any supporting evidence for your statement......

Breast Surgery

Learn more about breast surgeries and breastfeeding or chestfeeding.

www.cdc.gov

What claim that I made, exactly, is one that requires additional supporting evidence?

Biological females can produce milk and breastfeed (even after reduction surgery...important to note that the "top surgery" in most cases isn't the same kind of surgery that someone may have for the treatment of breast cancer, and more closely resembles that of someone getting breast reduction surgery)

Some trans people are biological females
Many who identify as "non-binary" are biological females

 

[SeventhFisherofMen]

please God i hope i'm in Heaven by the time men start "breastfeeding" i don't wanna know what scientific abomination will be attempted to make it seem like men can "breastfeed" Maybe they'll just shove a bottle in the chest and sow it up and call it a day and anyone that protests men using the decaying milk that is in their chest for food will be labeled a nazi. I'm sick of this world.

 

[Sabri]

please God i hope i'm in Heaven by the time men start "breastfeeding" i don't wanna know what scientific abomination will be attempted to make it seem like men can "breastfeed" Maybe they'll just shove a bottle in the chest and sow it up and call it a day and anyone that protests men using the decaying milk that is in their chest for food will be labeled a nazi. I'm sick of this world.

I’m praying with you - please God hear our prayers!!!

 

[Hank77]

please God i hope i'm in Heaven by the time men start "breastfeeding" i don't wanna know what scientific abomination will be attempted to make it seem like men can "breastfeed" Maybe they'll just shove a bottle in the chest and sow it up and call it a day and anyone that protests men using the decaying milk that is in their chest for food will be labeled a nazi. I'm sick of this world.

You - i don't wanna know what scientific abomination will be attempted to make it seem like men can "breastfeed"

I’m praying with you - please God hear our prayers!!!

Absolutely nowhere in the CDC report does it say anything at all about biological men breastfeeding.
Why would you say that it does?

 

[Sabri]

You - i don't wanna know what scientific abomination will be attempted to make it seem like men can "breastfeed"

Absolutely nowhere in the CDC report does it say anything at all about biological men breastfeeding.
Why would you say that it does?

It’s all too much! They are going to far with this lgbtq stuff. What will happen next transgender men claiming they have a womb? The CDC reports chest feeding?

 

[Hank77]

It’s all too much! They are going to far with this lgbtq stuff. What will happen next transgender men claiming they have a womb? The CDC reports chest feeding?

Quote from the report. Didn't you read what's been posted?
Some transgender parents who have had breast/top surgery may wish to breastfeed, or chestfeed (a term used by some transgender and non-binary parents), their infants.