WOKE: NHS-Backed Guidance Criticised For ‘Harmful’ Advice That Transwomen Can ‘Chestfeed’ Using Powerful Drug

Experts warned that current NHS-backed guidance stating that transwomen can breastfeed could be harmful for newborns.

According to the Newman-Goldfarb protocol, biological men who swap sex can promote milk supply, according to advice from a charity linked on the disputed ‘chestfeeding’ advice page.

However, the operation, which requires the administration of a potent medicine known as domperidone, has been fraught with controversy. 

The Newman-Goldfarb regimen was created to help adoptive mothers — or those who have conceived through surrogacy — increase milk production.

Several drugs have been shown to boost prolactin, the hormone responsible for milk production, including metoclopramide, digitalis, chlorpromazine, and other sedatives.

However, domperidone, an anti-sickness medication, is favoured since it has fewer potentially harmful side effects. 

Although domperidone has a risk of giving a baby an abnormal heartbeat.

Moreover, the NHS’s guidance page refers to La Leche, a charity that defines it as “far safer for mother and baby.”

The link to La Leche’s advise on NHS England’s chestfeeding guidelines page was to a “independent, non-profit support site,” according to an NHS England representative.

Officials, on the other hand, have no idea how many women or transwomen use the medicine for this reason.

Under the ‘further support’ part of the NHS chestfeeding page, there is a link to the charity La Leche League.

The NHS linking to the La Leche League advice, according to health experts, was inappropriate.

Professor Jenny Gamble, a Coventry University expert in midwifery, said: ‘They are unlikely to create enough fluid to sustain a birth, and we have no idea what the ramifications are.’

She went on to say that the NHS had the wrong priorities and that more should be done to encourage breastfeeding in those who are naturally capable of it.

Since its inception last week, the NHS information page for trans parents has been dogged by criticism.

Critics have called it “ideological” for not using the word “breasts” and instead using the term “chestfeeding.”

Health experts are particularly concerned about the NHS’ recommendation that patients take hormone transitioning medications like testosterone while ‘chestfeeding,’ despite the fact that ‘it is unclear what effect this could have on your kid.’

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