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Tessa McInnes's avatar

The writer's experience is shocking, misogynistic and the new practice abusive to babies - males cannot lactate in any natural meaningful way. Can this letter get wider publicity, in The Times or The Telegraph?

Milli Hill's avatar

Potentially. Looking into it. x

Lucy Leader's avatar

Thank you for telling your story Miriam. Unfortunately, it is now the story of many Leaders in many countries. I suspect that ultimately, LLLI will be the author of its own demise. Marian Tompson (who Milli has also written about), has left a magnificent legacy of empowered women and healthier societies. Fast forward 70 years and what have these cretinous trans and their handmaidens left behind?

Not a single positive thing. When your philosophy is deliberately chaotic and destructive, that's what you end up with: nothing. Escalating your commitment to a non-functioning enterprise is a losing strategy: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/escalation-of-commitment-to-a-losing

Anne Martinez's avatar

May the dominos start falling

Milli Hill's avatar

It's a tragedy it's come to this but yes, that's necessary now.

Dr Lynn R S Genevieve's avatar

I’m currently writing my own ‘story’ about how as is said here, a small group of zealots infiltrated an organisation and changed the language… the good news is ARM saw them off - but a lot of damage was done. Of course these really concerned TIAs have disappeared to wreak havoc elsewhere now… I may even share it on Substack one day.

Milli Hill's avatar

I hope you do xx

Sharon Breward's avatar

There is a collective insanity inherent in all of this - I do hope Miriam will continues to offer BF support independently or in conjunction with others who are refusing to toe this increasingly intolerant & misogynistic line - the women will come to where they know they are safe

Milli Hill's avatar

I hope eventually new support networks will be formed but...it shouldn't have had to come to this. The work was already done by people like Miriam and Marian.

Terf vibes's avatar

Extraordinary that some of the women Leaders can be bought off with praise, power, money?, whatever it is, to openly hope for the older Leaders to die off. 😣 It's almost like some women almost

become men in their outlook - we've had to be shape shifters due to the patriarchy before this. All the more credit to those women who won't shift and who know what a woman is and how important it is for women to have the support of our sisters at all stages of our lives. Brava to Miriam and to you Milli for giving her and the other LLL women Leaders resisting this most outrageous men's rights attack on women-only spaces and services. XX

Milli Hill's avatar

Absolutely, very good point about how women shape shift, I guess this is what people mean when they say 'handmaidens' but I prefer your way of putting it. xxx

Terf vibes's avatar

Cheers, Milli. I see today that AOC has removed her pronouns from her bio. Her shape-shifting on Trans v. Women stung more than most. This shift is promising.

Eleanor Copp's avatar

Student midwives being taught about chest feeding as if fact .

Milli Hill's avatar

The amount of confusion about basic biology I've seen in the past couple of days on social media is shocking. All of the language stuff just compounds this. It's crazy!!

Susan Doherty's avatar

This is truly heartbreaking for mothers and babies and for those brave women trying to help them become successful breast feeders. The LLLI leadership should be thoroughly ashamed if itself. They are complicit in the destruction of the bonding between mothers and babies ,and society will pay a huge price for it in the future. Thanks ,Milli x

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Milli Hill's avatar

Thanks Karis and Melody for your great points. For me it's about boundaries and principles. People say HAS A MAN ACTUALLY BEEN TO A LLL GROUP and I channel Germaine and say I DON'T CARE! I don't care! The point is HE IS NOT ALLOWED. Even if no man ever rocks up, I want the line to be there in the sand. It's ok for some things to be for women only. End of!