Transgender woman is first to be able to breastfeed her baby
A 30-year-old transgender woman has become the first officially recorded to breastfeed her baby. An experimental three-and-a-half-month treatment regimen, which included hormones, a nausea drug and breast stimulation, enabled the woman to produce 227 grams of milk a day.
"This is a very big deal," says Joshua Safer of Boston Medical Center, who was not involved with the treatment. "Many transgender women are looking to have as many of the experiences of non-transgender women as they can, so I can see this will be extremely popular."
The transgender woman had been receiving feminising hormonal treatments for several years before she started the lactation treatment. These included spironolactone, which is thought to block the effects of testosterone, and progesterone and a type of oestrogen. This regimen enabled her to develop breasts that looked fully grown, according to a medical scale that assesses breast development based on appearance. She had not had any breast augmentation surgery.
When her partner was five-and-a-half-months pregnant, the woman sought medical treatment from Tamar Reisman and Zil Goldstein at Mount Sinai's Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City. Her partner had no interest in breastfeeding, she explained, so she would like to take on that role instead.
The milk produced was supplemented by formula because a baby typically needs 500 grams of milk per day at 5 days old.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @07:15PM (2 children)
Why the hell do any of you guys care. Seriously, reading the comments already posted it looks like a bunch of retards humping a doorknob.
Here, lets see if we can make a right winger's head explode.
Don't you believe that the government should stay the fuck out of peoples business, especially if it doesn't impact anyone else? Y'all are against money costing regulations against oil drilling companies and that's to keep them from dumping toxic chemicals in our water supply, why would you be in favor of regulating someones sex life?
Honestly I think they are all just scared they are going to accidentally cheat on their wives with a tranny.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday February 17 2018, @11:55PM
Why, yes. When did I say otherwise? Mocking something doesn't mean you want someone's right to be as big a weirdo as they like taken away. Hell, it doesn't even mean you disapprove of people being weirdos.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2018, @08:34PM
Why don't you come up to Canada where if you call this guy-turned-woman a "dude" you can be charged with a hate crime. I can only imagine if you question what utterly insane genetic-carpet-bombing chemicals are being passed through the "milk" to the baby the CBC could label you "literally hitler" and have a rainbow haired "journalist" dox you under the guise of journalism.
I wish I was exaggerating or being cute, I really do. This is the new Canada. A "tolerant" hellhole run by a vocal minority of nutbags who are normalizing serious mental conditions.