“Chestfeeding” instead of “Breastfeeding” and midwives being told not to use the term ‘mother’. Ben Scallan reports on a trend critics say is erasing women. #gript
Words like “breastfeeding” and even “mothers” are out, as a major British hospital trust pushes a new ‘trans friendly’ policy. Midwives at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust have been told to stop using terms including “breastfeeding” and “breastmilk”- and even ordered to ditch the term mother and use the phrase “birthing parent”. […]