Two leaders of an international breastfeeding-support organization, including a 94-year-old cofounder, resigned from the group because it has been taken over by transgender “zealots.”
Marian Tompson, who, along with six other women, cofounded La Leche League International (LLL), quit the organization earlier this month. Thompson wrote that it “has become a travesty of my original intent.”
Similarly, Miriam Main, a trustee of La Leche League Great Britain (LLLGB), also submitted her resignation. She is leaving over what she calls a “complete departure from LLL’s philosophy and mission, led by a group of zealots from within the organization.”
Radical TRANSformation
The nonprofit LLL was founded in Illinois in 1956 to advocate for and support mothers in breastfeeding. This was at a time when most American babies were being bottle-fed formula. It has since grown into an international organization with affiliates in nearly 90 countries.
Of course, from 1956 to well into this century, everyone understood that only women could have babies and breastfeed. With the rise of the trans cult, however, this scientifically accurate understanding must give way to the absurd and harmful notion that men, too, can give birth and produce milk.
In her resignation letter, Tompson charged:
From an organization with the specific Mission of supporting biological women who want to give their babies the best start in life by breastfeeding them, LLL’s focus has subtly shifted to include men who, for whatever reason, want to have the experience of breastfeeding despite no careful long-term research on male lactation and how that may affect the baby.
This shift from following the norms of Nature, which is the core of mothering through breastfeeding, to indulging the fantasies of adults, is destroying our organization.
Thomson concluded that “it has become clear that there is nothing I can do to change this trajectory by staying involved,” so she is departing. But she did “leave the door open to come back when La Leche League returns to its original Mission and Purpose.”
Lost in TRANSlation
Main also said the trans takeover occurred gradually but inexorably. “In LLL publications and materials I noticed ‘mother’ being replaced with ‘parent,’ ‘breastfeed’ being replaced with ‘chestfeed,’ and women constantly being referred to as ‘breastfeeding families,’” she wrote.
A look at LLL’s website confirms this. Its homepage states that the group supports “mothers and nursing parents.” This, as if there were some difference between the two when it comes to breastfeeding. It also has an entire page dedicated to “Support for Transgender & Non-binary Parents.”
“Trans men, trans women, and non-binary individuals may choose to breastfeed or chestfeed their babies,” the page says. It quotes at length “retired Canadian LLL Leader and transgender dad Trevor MacDonald.” The site promotes treatments, including hormones and drugs, to enable trans women to produce milk. It links to various pro-trans external websites, including its own “queer and genderqueer inclusive LLL Facebook group.” The site also cautions that at some of the other informational links on the page, “you may notice gendered language.”
Main claimed that “Leaders who expressed concerns about clarity of language … were ridiculed and abused.” Furthermore:
We began to be told that as an inclusive organization we would have to welcome trans identifying men who wished to breastfeed to our meetings. Leaders then began to raise legitimate concerns about safeguarding issues. For example, the physical safety of a baby being breastfed by a man; the social and physiological safety of a mother separated from her baby so a man can breastfeed; the psychological safety of women in the room where a man is present; the need for privacy for women with certain religious beliefs. In raising such concerns, we were told we were transphobic, and we were compared to racists and Nazis — by other Leaders!
TRANSmogrified Beyond Recognition
Main’s assertions are borne out by the fact that officials from the LLL’s U.S. headquarters suspended six LLLGB trustees last spring because they refused to allow biological men to participate in their programs. “The continued promotion of LLL as an organization that excludes people,” the officials asserted, “is damaging LLL’s credibility.”
One LLLGB leader told the Telegraph:
Many breastfeeding supporters like me feel utterly disheartened by the way our charity has become obsessed and sidetracked by sex and gender issues. In the most recent diktat, we were informed that our charity is not and “cannot become a single-sex” charity.
We had already been told that the term “mother” could be a “roadblock.” Any attempt to question or debate these positions is hounded down as “harmful.”
“Pressure to abandon mother-only breastfeeding services has been building internationally at LLL for several years as gender identity activism has gathered force,” a spokeswoman for the trustees told the paper. “We are now at the point that group leaders around the world are being told they must support ‘male lactation.’”
Well, maybe not all around the world. LLL, the Telegraph observed, “does allow groups in countries which do not accept trans rights, including many Muslim ones, to exclude biological men.”
In any country where the trans cult has a foothold, though, everyone must bow to its demands.
“It’s a sorry state of affairs when a charity that does valuable work to help mothers to breastfeed is being pushed to include men,” Maya Forstater of British activist group Sex Matters told the Telegraph. “The work of La Leche League is nothing to do with identity and everything to do with human biology.”
