A terribly modern grievance, I think you’ll agree. Very now.
This is where we are, people. Everyone remember where we parked.
You see, Mr Buckley wanted to “have the experience of breastfeeding.” Hence the novelty breasts. Mr Buckley is also indignant that a woman, a mother of three and a breastfeeding counsellor, might regard such ambitions as a little odd, for a man, and not entirely in the interests of the newborn child.
And so,
And as we’re in the realm of squint-and-pretend:
The term lactation is, however, doing a lot of heavy lifting. Men who pretend to be women, and who take large doses of cross-sex hormones, subsequently developing facsimile breasts, are unlikely to lactate anything adequately nourishing for a child.
Given sufficiently high doses of female hormones, and given sufficiently zealous pumping, some men can be made to secrete a substance from their nipples, albeit unreliably and in very limited quantities – but the resulting discharge is of questionable value to a newborn baby:
As Dr Maja Bowen notes here,
Or, as lawyers for Ms Sussex put it,
At which point, it’s perhaps worth mentioning that the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal, where this very modern drama is unfolding, determined that Mr Buckley’s legal team “did not have to hand over medical evidence over the chemical makeup of the fluid” being forced upon his newborn child, and that such details, i.e., the facts of the matter, were “not of relevance” to claims of vilification.
Similarly “not of relevance,” it seems, are concerns that such secretions, induced by a cocktail of supposedly “gender-affirming” drugs, may have harmful effects on newborn babies, including possible heart problems and genital development.
And so, either we have a man who believes that he can secrete suitably nourishing fluids from his nipples, or a man who knows that he can’t in fact do this, but is determined to indulge his bizarre preoccupation anyway, despite the warnings of attending medical professionals, and regardless of the effect on a newborn baby.
Mr Buckley has also announced that “experiencing arousal while breastfeeding” is “nothing to be ashamed of.”
Which possibly tells us something about the motivations in play.
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