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[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cis men can breastfeed in the right circumstances, so why not Trans women?

[–] alx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

trans women are absolutely not cis men tho, and hormones develop breast, lactone levels, and make producing milk far more common, on par with cis women

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, absolutely

[–] violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not 'how tf (the fuck)", an expression of shock, but "How? tf? (transformation)?", a question of the precise mechanism of this transgender breastfeeding scene.

Presumably, they assumed the person in question was a trans woman, (which may not be the case, it may be a trans man, I do not know), and wondered if this was a case of them being physically transformed into a female with functional milk glands, or just handwaved. (Because, while trans women can lactate in real life, it usually requires an experimental drug regimen.)

[–] feminalpanda@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago

You can do it without the medicine but it does help get started fully. I got to drops without it, the time it took for pumping was the issue.