Naomi Cunningham

Anyone?

It's awfully rude and unkind to draw attention to these kinds of risks, I know. But isn't that rather the point of safeguarding? Kindness is complicated.

Bearing in mind what a very wicked world it is — and that autogynephilia is a thing, and some autogynephile men will fetishise pretty much any aspect of femaleness — are there any foreseeable risks in condoning male "breastfeeding"?

But I'm by an order of magnitude more cautious (putting it mildly) about the impact on an infant of being "breastfed" by a male artificially induced to lactate. For whose benefit is this really done? And what is the nature of the "benefit"?

I don't know the data on the respective merits of formula and wet-nursing, for an orphaned infant. If the actual mother is available, I'd be cautious about the impact of wet-nursing on the mother-infant bond, but that could be addressed by evidence.

So we are presumably proceeding on the assumption that the female mother is dead, or can't breastfeed (perhaps a "trans man" who has had her breasts removed?), or is otherwise unavailable (a surrogate, maybe; another whole can of worms).

Are you able to help my failing imagination here? The child must have had an actual female mother, who we presumably agree would be the best person to breastfeed her, if available?

I am struggling to imagine circumstances in which it would be in the best interests of an infant to be "breastfed" by a male person who has been induced to lactate. I failed my maths degree, but some things stuck, including "confession of failure of the imagination does not amount to proof".

YouTube video by John Anderson Media What Is Autogynephilia? | Helen Joyce

We really need to start to face up to the implications of autogynephilia for the admission of men who say they are women to women-only spaces.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC6M...

I re-read "That Hideous Strength" not long ago. The portrayal of the moral corruption of Mark Studdock by bureaucratic evil, using a combination of menace, flattery and calculated desensitisation to horror, had strong contemporary resonances for me.

If you want to complain about me, I'm regulated by the Bar Standards Board www.barstandardsboard.org.uk

I asked rhetorically, given the SC's judgment, what was the remaining point of medical transition. I don't think it is fair to characterise that as saying that that is the only point of all gender transition, do you?

Oh fab, thank you so much! Especially for braving yet again the hordes of <checks notes> very kind people here.

@swilkenkc.bsky.social I'm trying to find the case you mentioned to me about costs as damages, and which opened a whole world of pain for you on this lovely kind site... and I can't find it. Could you possibly remind me?

If my account here is still marked "intolerant"... well, in all honesty I'm feeling pretty intolerant right now.

And quite a lot of "I'll piss where I like" including threats to piss on TERFs. Which as Richard Dawkins points out is classic male territory-marking behaviour.

I think this reads "The Guv can suck my [?] girlie [?] dick"

The handwriting is poor, so I'm not completely sure of the last two words.

"The only good TERF is a ____ one"

The demo against the ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS v Scottish Ministers. The #BeKind people.

Jolyon Maugham KC has blocked me, but posted that the guardian article about Melanie Field shows UKSC in FWS v Scottish ministers is constitutionally wrong. For a KC to suggest something so legally illiterate in statutory interpretation is bizarre. My explanation why medium.com/@scott-wortl...

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Did she manage to say anything correct?

Oh, so it is! It popped up somewhere for me as if new.

Let’s celebrate the bravery of JK Rowling A friend believes people divide into sheep and goats. The sheep will never stray too far from their flock’s received wisdom because lone dissenters are picked o

What a lovely, joyfully defiant piece.

www.thetimes.com/article/e112...

Do you think a woman who asks to see a female nurse for her smear test is a difficult edge case?

This reply to me is from someone whose account is not marked "intolerance". Go figure.

Dr Kath Murray on X: "The NPCC DEI has agreed that trans identified men with a GRC should be able to search female detainees. So a man with a bit of paper, that cost a fiver, can strip-search a woman, with state backing. It’s hard to express just how repugnant this is. https://t.co/qsyXOfVyMN" / X The NPCC DEI has agreed that trans identified men with a GRC should be able to search female detainees. So a man with a bit of paper, that cost a fiver, can strip-search a woman, with state backing. It’s hard to express just how repugnant this is. https://t.co/qsyXOfVyMN

Human rights lawyers, please comment with particular reference to the article 3 and 8 rights of women subjected to such searches.

x.com/kathmurray1/...

This piece I wrote in 2021 has seemed evergreen for far too long. At last it's starting to feel prophetic.

www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2021/02/01/s...