Culture
The Ridiculous Attempt To Cancel The Term 'Breastfeeding'
Cancel culture seems to grow more absurd by the day. The new target? The term “breastfeeding.” Hospitals in the UK are leading the charge to delete this word and replace it with “chestfeeding.”
By Molly Farinholt2 min read
Similar to Harvard Medical School’s use of “birthing people” in place of “women,” this term, the British hospitals assert, is more inclusive and less offensive to transgender or non-binary individuals. Jessica Martucci of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Anne Barnhill of Johns Hopkins University backed this initiative, writing that “promoting breastfeeding as ‘natural’ may be ethically problematic” and “may bolster this belief that ‘natural’ approaches are presumptively healthier.”