Can a man breastfeed a baby? New CDC 'chestfeeding' guidelines spark uproar amid claims infants could be poisoned
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Biden government as well as US health officials have been accused of risking the health of newborn babies after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reportedly promoted “chestfeeding” by transgender parents. The website of the national public health agency is full of information that does deem trans women fit for breastfeeding babies but apparently failed to recognize the adverse impact it can have.
As per the Health Equity Considerations segment on the website, “Transgender and nonbinary-gendered individuals may give birth and breastfeed or feed at the chest (chestfeed).” It also went on to state that “an individual does not need to have given birth to breastfeed or chestfeed.”
A page dedicated to queries related to breast surgery has declared that “some transgender parents who have had breast/top surgery may wish to breastfeed, or chestfeed their infants.” The section mentioned that “these families may need help with maximizing milk production and medication to induce lactation or avoiding medications that inhibit lactation.”
‘FDA recommends that breastfeeding women not use domperidone’
However, there is reportedly no mention of the alleged bad effects of those medications on the child. According to doctors who spoke with Daily Mail, one of the medications, domperidone, “to induce lactation” can lead to heart issues in children. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearly stated that “because of the possibility of serious adverse effects, FDA recommends that breastfeeding women not use domperidone to increase milk production.”
The experts also alleged that the CDC has put “politics and science uncomfortably together.” Dr Jane Orient, executive director of the conservative Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, said, “We have no idea what the long-term effects on the child will be” if the breastfeeding trans woman was taking “all kinds of off-label hormones.”
Orient continued, “A lot of people are pushing for off-label use of a drug... it's become so politicized that you can do all kinds of things for a politically approved purpose. The CDC has a responsibility to talk about the health risks, but they have been derelict in doing that.”
‘You can't fool Mother Nature’
Dr Stuart Fischer, an internal medicine physician in New York, called out the comparison being made between breast milk by trans women and breastmilk by biological women. He reportedly said, “Because it's induced. You can't fool Mother Nature.”
Fischer added, “If it's been tested a handful of times, how would we know the long-range effect? The short-term is one thing, but the long-term in terms of physical and mental illness... who knows? It's an emerging field, to put it mildly. This is the kind of thing where politics and science are uncomfortably put together.”
‘We are living in a distressing, incomprehensible time’
Columnist Meghan McCain slammed the current US administration over “chestfeeding”. In a piece for the Daily Mail, she claimed that the process “is potentially hazardous to babies,” before stating, “Why else would America's supposedly 'science-based, data-driven’ premier public health institution promote something that could poison infants in the critical first few days of their lives?”
McCain also noted that sometimes, “nursing women are prescribed domperidone, but only under close observation and after they've been screened for a history of heart problems.” The television personality then accused the health officials of “reducing our babies to guinea pigs” as she went on to assert that “the corrupted bureaucrats in America's health establishment, it doesn't matter that children may be put at risk. It's the emotions of adults and their desire to live in a way contrary to their biology that truly matters.”
“We are here because the Biden Administration has now committed itself to the political cause of radical transgender activism. The 'follow the science,' folks have thrown any semblance of science or responsibility out the window in favor of political expediency. We are living in a distressing, incomprehensible time. There must be a national outcry to stop this, immediately, before children are unnecessarily harmed,” McCain added.
