The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is being questioned by GOP doctors in the Senate about its controversial guidance saying that transgender people can breastfeed children and suggesting that such individuals take drugs for lactation.
According to the CDC, transgender and non-binary individuals “may give birth and breastfeed or feed at the chest (chestfeed).” The agency has also published that transgenders can take “medication to induce lactation” so as to “chestfeed” infants. On July 13, Sens. Roger Marshall (R-Kans.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) issued a letter (pdf) slamming the CDC for its “chestfeeding” guidance.
“I am writing to you with serious concern about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) guidance for biological men who identify as women (transgender individual) who wish to breastfeed,” said the senators, who have a doctor of medicine (M.D.) certification….