According to the CDC, breastfeeding is not limited to biological women.
QUICK FACTS:
- The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published “Health Equity Considerations” that endorses transgender individuals “chestfeeding” a baby despite obvious health risks.
- The “Health Equity Considerations” arguably have nothing to do with controlling and limiting disease, but instead promote a far-left political agenda.
- “Health equity is when everyone has the opportunity to be as healthy as possible. These opportunities include equitable access to and distribution of resources,” the considerations read.
- The CDC purports that inequities have “resulted in disparities in breastfeeding rates among different groups in the United States.”
- The health organization then calls for the use of terms that are “inclusive of all gender identities such as ‘pregnant person,’ ‘breastfeeding parent,’ and ‘lactating person.’”
- One of the “reminders” in the considerations is that “transgender and nonbinary-gendered individuals may give birth and breastfeed or feed at the chest (chestfeed),” noting that “an individual does not need to have given birth to breastfeed or chestfeed.”
CDC FAILS TO CONSIDER HEALTH RISKS:
- Biological men looking to “chestfeed” can take hormones to mimic lactation, although the drugs can negatively affect the health of the infant.
- According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), one of the breastmilk-producing drugs, domperidone, may have “serious adverse effects,” potentially giving a baby an irregular heartbeat.
- Executive director of the conservative Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Dr. Jane Oreint told the Daily Mail, “We have no idea what the long-term effects on the child will be’ if trans women use “all kinds of off-label hormones.”
- “The CDC has a responsibility to talk about the health risks, but they have been derelict in doing that,” Dr. Orient added.
- Another doctor from New York added that breastmilk from a biological male having the same benefits as breastmilk from a biological woman is “very hard to believe.”
- New York Internal Medicine Dr. Stuart Fischer added, “This is the kind of thing where politics and science are uncomfortably put together.”
BACKGROUND:
- A 40-plus-year study found that transgender individuals are more likely to have psychiatric conditions.
- “Transgender individuals had higher rates of suicide attempt and mortality compared with nontransgender individuals,” the study states.
- According to the Danish study, about 43% of transgender people had a psychiatric diagnosis, compared to 7% of non-transgender individuals.
