For that matter, cis women sometimes breastfeed while taking medications that one is generally warned to avoid while breastfeeding, either because they and their physicians have weighed the risks and benefits and have decided together that it's an appropriate compromise...
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...or because they're just ignoring doctor's orders. It's possible to argue about whether that's good or bad, but it's pretty hard to deny that it *happens*. And it's generally not treated as a major crisis or as evidence that it's bad to "allow" cis women to breastfeed...
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...but a single report of a trans woman taking comparable risks when faced with comparable complicated decisions is grounds for no end of hand-wringing and "how was this allowed to happen" moralizing. And I don't mean that cis women aren't subject to...
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...a huge amount of social pressure & judgment-from-moralistic-strangers regarding pretty much all their health-related decisions when they're pregnant or lactating, because they definitely are. But I thought that, as feminists, we were supposed to regard that as problematic...
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...and in any case the "gender critical" crowd seem to be approaching this very differently for cis women and for trans women.
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StaceyXXFeminismRadFem: "i support complete monitoring and control of the diets of all pregnant women with prosecution for mothers who are irresponsible child-wombs. this, to me, is feminism."
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I think Stacey was replying to discussion of this case study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29372185 The patient discussed in the study was taking occasional clonazepam for her anxiety & zolpidem for her insomnia, & "gray market" domperidone to induce lactation.
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You have to understand that when a cis woman does it's this beautiful manifestation of the sacred maternal bond, but when a trans woman dos exactly the same thing it's child abuse.
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