https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 22 May 2026 10:59:05 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transgender-bfing-dad-denied-role-of-la-leche-league-leader#post-273209 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:03:39 +0000 T.H.O.U. 273209@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think the point is that a leader should be a woman, no matter what the success has been with BFing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transgender-bfing-dad-denied-role-of-la-leche-league-leader#post-273181 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:35:55 +0000 ladyfingers 273181@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That is an interesting point @sloaneandpuffy made -- would an adoptive mother or a woman whose glands are otherwise compromised, using an SIS system, be allowed to be a leader? Just to complicate the discussion a bit :) Anyway, I think stating the rules saying a man can't be a leader should be enough, without having to get into discrimination and other issues. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transgender-bfing-dad-denied-role-of-la-leche-league-leader#post-273165 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:28:21 +0000 MsLipGloss 273165@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is just too trippy . . . : / </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transgender-bfing-dad-denied-role-of-la-leche-league-leader#post-273158 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:22:54 +0000 loveisstrange 273158@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't blame them one bit. I had trouble letting the female nurses help me because I am really pretty modest about my body. I wouldn't have wanted him anywhere near me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transgender-bfing-dad-denied-role-of-la-leche-league-leader#post-273153 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:18:42 +0000 prettylizy 273153@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I agree w pp's. If LLL rules state no men as leaders and he is a man, then he can't be a leader. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transgender-bfing-dad-denied-role-of-la-leche-league-leader#post-273095 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:40:38 +0000 T.H.O.U. 273095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sloaneandpuffy: Yes, I don't like discrimination but you can't have things both ways. If you want to be a man now thats fine, but like any other man, you can't be a leader. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transgender-bfing-dad-denied-role-of-la-leche-league-leader#post-273092 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:39:20 +0000 mrsjyw 273092@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm kinda torn. While I don't like discrimination of any sort in any arena; I can see it from the perspective of why most moms wouldn't want a male as a LLL leader. I probably wouldn't just because I wouldn't relate on an emotional level. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transgender-bfing-dad-denied-role-of-la-leche-league-leader#post-273088 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:37:14 +0000 mamimami 273088@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know what to think about this! Would a woman who has only breastfed through a supplemental nursing system (with minimal to no breastmilk production) make a good LLL leader?</p> <p>It seems like he wants to have it both ways... he is very insistent that he's a man, and LLL is seeing him as a man, therefore under their rules he can't be a leader.</p> <p>I would probably rather have a full-on female as my LLL leader, personally! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transgender-bfing-dad-denied-role-of-la-leche-league-leader#post-273081 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:35:31 +0000 T.H.O.U. 273081@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just to clarify, I believe they were allowing him to participate in the meetings, but they just stated that he couldn't be a leader. I don't know that I even heard he wanted to be a leader. </p> <p>I understand that it would be troubling to be a leader. A leader would involve helping new moms with latch and hold. As uncomfortable as I was with learning how to BF, I would not be comfortable with a man trying to help me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transgender-bfing-dad-denied-role-of-la-leche-league-leader#post-273057 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:16:12 +0000 regberadaisy 273057@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You read that right, transgender, breastfeeding dad.</p> <p>Read on....<br /> <a href="http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2012/08/24/not-mom-enough-transgender-breastfeeding-dad-denied-leadership-role-in-la-leche-league/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2012/08/24/not-mom-enough-transgender-breastfeeding-dad-denied-leadership-role-in-la-leche-league/</a></p> <p>Thoughts? </p>