It s important a science-based approach is backed 10/05/2021|8min
Sky News host Chris Kenny has discussed the “latest abomination over breastfeeding” after the Australian Breastfeeding Association recently released a new transgender-inclusive guide in which chestfeeding , among other terms, was promoted.
“The Weekend Australian s Bernard Lane revealed that the taxpayer-funded Australian Breastfeeding Association and LGBTQ+ group Rainbow Families have collaborated on a $20,000 transgender-inclusive guide for people who ‘chestfeed’,” Mr Kenny said.
“Yep, women don t breastfeed, people chestfeed”.
“This is biological appropriation, brought to you by Australian Breastfeeding Association,” Mr Kenny said.
“Shouldn t they change their name now to chestfeeding association , this, of course, is brought to you by activists who know all about milking government funds, but absolutely nothing about the milk of human kindness”.
Last week in the United Kingdom, a momentous judgement with international implications was handed down by the High Court. The court found in favour of the arguments put forward by the mother of a child with gender dysphoria and Keira Bell, a brave 23-year-old woman who had at 16 been prescribed puberty blockers after three short appointments with the Tavistock youth gender clinic.
The judges in this case observed that prescribing puberty blockers to children with gender dysphoria is an experimental treatment with real uncertainty over the short- and long-term consequences of the treatment and with very limited evidence as to its efficacy. Given the potential lifelong effects on fertility, sexual function, bone density and development of these treatments, as well as a lack of evidence of their full long-term impacts, the court found that children are very unlikely to be able to adequately understand and give informed consent to these experimental treatments.