The idea that breastfeeding counsellors are being suspended for refusing to support 'male lactation', either in reality or in principle, seems shocking, but if you've been involved in birth or breastfeeding in the past 5 years or so, it's unsurprising.

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This is not about excluding; it is about safeguarding the vital breastfeeding education spaces that must exist for women if we are to help increase our internationally low breastfeeding rates – just as importantly, help women to access the right support.” web.archive.org/web/2024050119…

Breastfeeding charity suspends trustees who want to stick to helping breastfeeding mothers, and not men who want to lactate.

Charity Commission asked to investigate

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BBC News presenters Martine Croxall, Karin Giannone, Kasia Madera, and Annita McVeigh arrive for the first stage of their employment tribunal. The stars are suing, citing issues including age and sex discrimination, and equal pay.

On the side of progress? Many activists, despite what they claim, are anything but, writes Victoria Smith thecritic.co.uk/moral-progress…

The wonderful Victoria Smith is running a half marathon for us in September. Show her some support and donate if you can! #JustGiving justgiving.com/page/victoria-…

Australian politicians have entered a women’s rights fight without the definition of a woman & are quickly finding out the women they have spent the past five years demonizing for knowing what a woman is are actually the ones who have been fighting for women’s rights all along.

This. Humza Yousaf was free to show his faith in Bute House; Kate Forbes dares to show hers and she’s vilified. Why? Answers on the back of any feminist text of your choosing.

I wrote about why, if people are becoming kinder, it's not because we sterilised a few children along the way thecritic.co.uk/moral-progress…

Amused that Giles (who famously went beserk at his subeditors & told a journalist 'Youre a lying conniving c**t. I hope you f-king rot in hell') thinks he'd be quiet & stoical at the preventable death of his child. I guess he's just a better person than me shorturl.at/xELT6

My thought is that all the people arguing that it is incumbent on women and girl athletes to boycott their own competitions in protest at male inclusion are sorely misguided.

To argue that they let everyone down if they fail to do so is cruel.

This is *our* job.

So many people have convinced themselves they haven't been part of enabling this abuse of women because they just liked some tweets, just signed one letter, just shared some lies, just parroted some slogans, just backed one woman's abuser/ hounder over his target. 1/

“If you define women as female you are defining women as less than fully human” is always a misogynist position.

“Women are defined by femininity regardless of sex” is always a misogynist position.

“Women’s distress matters less than men’s” is always a misogynist position.

As a former Chief Safeguarding Officer, I know a little about safeguarding, Caroline Dodds Pennock.

Safeguarding can work in one of two main ways

In some contexts, it relies on case-by-case checks/risk assessment (such as individual DBS checks, individual mental state assessments,…