New mothers are very familiar with the overwhelming array of dos and don’ts when it comes to taking care of their small and vulnerable babies. This is especially true in the topic of breastfeeding. Do feed your baby often. Refrain from multiple forms of medication while breastfeeding. Don’t over-caffeinate as your caffeine intake will affect your breastmilk. And on and on it goes.
What mothers across the country are likely unfamiliar with, is that the rules change if you are a man who breastfeeds, or as it is now called, chestfeeds. You read that correctly: if you are a man who chestfeeds. What was once an obvious impossibility, is now being touted as a normal fact, that men can chestfeed babies. Biological men who self-identify as women can undergo chest surgery and then proceed to take new experimental hormone drugs that mimic what occurs in a woman’s body when she has a baby. These drugs allow the man to produce an experimental fluid that is then secreted as breastmilk.
This is no longer a fringe concept. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal agency that informs the nation on health and safety, recently published considerations for health equity that include the statements:
“Transgender and nonbinary-gendered individuals may give birth and breastfeed or feed at the chest (chestfeed). The gender identity or expression of transgender individuals is different from their sex at birth. The gender identity of nonbinary-gendered individuals does not fit neatly into either man or woman.”
“An individual does not need to have given birth to breastfeed or chestfeed.”
“Some families may have other preferred terminology for how they feed their babies, such as nursing, chestfeeding, or bodyfeeding.”
These statements, while un-factual on their face, are also incredibly harmful as they encourage a practice that is experimental with no long-term studies on the effect it will have on the babies. According to the Daily Mail, one of the medications used to produce milk in biological men has already been linked to heart problems in babies.
Men who take drugs to induce this liquid secretion, often also take a drug called domperidone to increase the production of that liquid. This is the same drug the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned women to avoid who were taking it to increase their breastmilk production:
“the drug [domperidone] is excreted in breast milk that could expose a breastfeeding infant to unknown risks. Because of the possibility of serious adverse effects, FDA recommends that breastfeeding women not use domperidone to increase milk production.”
Although there are well documented concerns associated with this new experimental liquid being substituted for breastmilk, it appears that government health agencies are far more concerned with being politically inclusive. Their refusal to acknowledge the facts of basic biology and consider the studies, as well as the lack of long-term studies, of this new phenomenon will subject countless vulnerable babies to significant risks of severe side effects and potential harm.
“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting” Romans 1:28