‘This Is Sick’: British Hospitals Say ‘Milk’ From Men Equal To Mothers’ Breast Milk For Babies
A British trust that supervises numerous hospitals issued a letter claiming that milk produced by biological men (with the aid of ingested hormones) is as good for babies as breast milk from their mothers.
Dr. Rachael James, the medical director of the University of Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust (USHT) trust — which was the first British trust to use terms such as “chestfeeding” and “birthing parent”¸ wrote a letter last August to an organization called Children of Transitioners in which she claimed that “the term human milk (which she called the ‘ideal food for infants’) is meant to be neutral and is not gender-biased.”
She also stated, “Medications are sometimes used to induce lactation, similar to the natural hormones which encourage lactation to develop when the baby is newly born although occasionally some people are able to induce lactation without hormonal treatment. The evidence which is available demonstrates that the milk is comparable to that produced following the birth of a baby.” She added that “staff further clarify that the term human milk is meant to be neutral and is not gender-biased.”
The USHT cited a 2022 study which measured “infant milk testosterone concentrations” and discovered “no observable infant side effects” on babies using milk from biological men, lactating transgender women. That study was reportedly rejected by experts, The Daily Mail reported.
In 2021, USHT created Great Britain’s “first clinical and language guidelines supporting trans and non-binary birthing people” in which it declared that asserted that men who had taken hormones produced milk “comparable to that produced following the birth of a baby.”
Lottie Moore, the head of quality and identity at Policy Exchange, which discovered the letter, said: “This letter is unbalanced and naive in its assertion that the secretions produced by a male on hormones can nourish an infant in the way a mother’s breast milk can. A child’s welfare must always take precedence over identity politics and contested belief systems that are not evidence-based. The NHS should not be indulging in this nonsense.”
A spokesman for USHT stated, “We stand by the facts of the letter and the cited evidence supporting them.”
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