The Science of Trans Women Breastfeeding | Sci Guys Podcast

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  • @SciGuys
    @SciGuys  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Were you breastfed, or do you breastfeed? Let us know why/why not!
    Also, a bonus question, are you a trans parent - what’s your experience like?

    • @lindarikkers3442
      @lindarikkers3442 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I was breastfed for a short period, I breastfed my kids for a long period. You're right it's much more than just food, I really appreciate you mentioning that 💖

    • @rosegriffin2038
      @rosegriffin2038 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      i was breastfed until i was 3 lol

    • @FrozEnbyWolf150
      @FrozEnbyWolf150 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It constitutes my first conscious memory from when I was 1-2 days old. I've heard it's unusual to remember things from that time.

    • @playformers1238
      @playformers1238 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@FrozEnbyWolf150 that's a lie 💀 couldn't u make it less obvious?

    • @jasminema
      @jasminema 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I breastfed both my children until they were 16 months (first and pregnant with my 2nd) and 4 years for my 2nd

  • @BoliVic96
    @BoliVic96 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    I've always wondered why breasfreeding is such a controversial topic, until this episode made me realize, oh, it has to do with woman's bodies, of course people have oppinions about it 🙄

    • @planetaryg0
      @planetaryg0 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      i think i grew up privileged in that i never knew abt these harmful things like sexism, racism, policing womens bodies etc, even tho i'm afab and oriental. i was dumbfounded finding these things out as a teenager. like, there being controversy around breast feeding is such a crazy concept to me?? and how is a woman more stupid the nicer her appearance is?? it just pisses me off even more bc the world i imagined as a child is not the world i'm now having to deal w as an adult.

    • @conlon4332
      @conlon4332 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@planetaryg0 That does sound so disappointing. I don't know why people are like this...

  • @ShinyPurpleGhost
    @ShinyPurpleGhost 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    I’m trans masc and I breast fed my baby for 1.5 years. The experience was one of the things that pushed me to come out. I had buried the dysphoria so deep. It started to break out while I was pregnant but after giving birth and feeding I couldn’t bury it anymore

    • @Juno-b4f
      @Juno-b4f 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Thankyou for sharing. I'm transmasc too! Struggling to decide whether to conceive a child or not

    • @EbyTheDragon
      @EbyTheDragon 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I'm also transmasc, and my experience was similar. Pregnancy was the worst for my dysphoria, which made me only capable of breastfeeding for a week before i exclusively used a pump. But it did force me to stop denying and start exploring my gender, internally at first, and openly once i was safe to do so.

  • @luke
    @luke 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    Phenomenal thumbnail. Wow.

    • @ellabellab27
      @ellabellab27 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I FOUND LUKE

    • @Pinkywinkykinky
      @Pinkywinkykinky 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      definitely caught my attention, Luke 😳They're getting more scandalous on your break

  • @BoliVic96
    @BoliVic96 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    you just unlocked this knowledge for me, not only I was breastfeed, but I only stopped at almost two year old because my brother was cooking in the oven and my mother knew she couldn't keep up with the both of us at the same time, but I think she really cherished it, she was super proud of feeding us because she grew up really poor and I think she loved being able to provide for us with her own body

  • @FrozEnbyWolf150
    @FrozEnbyWolf150 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Before I even understood the concept of transness, I had read stories of cisgender men who had breastfed their children. So when this topic came up, it didn't seem the least bit strange to me.

    • @conlon4332
      @conlon4332 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Really? Is that possible?? I've never heard of that before. How does that work if they don't have breasts?

    • @FrozEnbyWolf150
      @FrozEnbyWolf150 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@conlon4332 All humans have breast tissue. It just develops larger following female puberty. In rare cases, men can lactate, and can get breast cancer as well. It's a matter of degrees, not category.

    • @rileymachelle4088
      @rileymachelle4088 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@conlon4332Everyone has breasts, including you.

  • @Juno-b4f
    @Juno-b4f 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I was breastfed because my mum thought it would be better for us than formula milk.
    As an afab trans masculine person, I don't know if I would breastfeed if I were to conceive and have a child
    1) because I don't know if I would have had top surgery prior to all that
    2) because I believe that breastfeeding could alter the size and shape of my nipples and would make my breasts bigger for longer, which I imagine would make my chest dysphoria worse.
    It would be a very tough decision. Breast feeding is arguably better than formula milk, as I understand it, but that would have to be balanced with the impact of delaying gender affirming care on my mental health.

  • @rita.sotero
    @rita.sotero 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    i was prescribed domperidone for my gastroparesis, and I need to take it only in sos exactly because it induces lactation

    • @conlon4332
      @conlon4332 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Would that be a big problem?

    • @rita.sotero
      @rita.sotero 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@conlon4332 actually yes!! Cus once the medication starts to produce thst effect it stops being “productive” for my gastroparesis. Also lactating when is not needed comes with a lot of problems associated likes mestitis

  • @mummamu1970
    @mummamu1970 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I’m 54. My last child was born in 1997. I still produce milk.

    • @conlon4332
      @conlon4332 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Wow! What do you do with it? Did you deliberately keep it going or did it just never stop?

    • @mummamu1970
      @mummamu1970 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@conlon4332 it just keeps going. With my first baby I pumped extra milk for a woman who had a new baby and cancer and she couldn’t breast feed because of the chemo.
      I went back to work two weeks after my second baby and mostly had to pump. Idk if that made a difference. I once had a doc tell me to “leave them alone” lol but I honestly am not doing anything g out of the ordinary to encourage it.
      Since breast feeding lowers your chance of breast cancer I’m not mad about it. Hormone levels are normal, had scan of brain to look for pituitary gland tumor, negative.
      So just one more reason to include me in your apocalypse survival group.. 😆

  • @jasminema
    @jasminema 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I had domperidone for nausea and vomiting when I was on chemo...thankfully didnt need to take too many

  • @devin-rq2hu
    @devin-rq2hu 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    you should’ve had nominalniomi on for this episode! i’m about to listen to it and i’m assuming they come up, because their claim to fame as a nonbinary transfem person is breastfeeding their child. i remember when it was the biggest topic on gc twitter.

    • @SciGuys
      @SciGuys  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      We reached out to her, but it fell through!

  • @nadiaaaj6618
    @nadiaaaj6618 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I love this podcast and I've been watching from the start but I wish they addressed the changes! Like when Jamp left, they didn't mention it or what happened and now that Luke is presumably on paternity leave and they've brought Ethan whos great. Just wish they kept us in the loop. It feels a bit weird ignoring such glaring changes.

    • @SciGuys
      @SciGuys  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You’ve got to remember that our lives aren’t anyone’s business! We addressed Ethan filling in for Luke in his first episode & have been very open about him coming back :)

    • @conlon4332
      @conlon4332 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@SciGuys I suppose maybe they're saying they'd like you to introduce the new person and explain that they're going to be taking over from now on? If you don't already do that I'm not sure I've only watched a few episodes but that's how I read the comment.

  • @lindarikkers3442
    @lindarikkers3442 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    OOOH that's such a cool topic! It should be possible, at least partially w stimulation & probably Domperidone

  • @roli112233
    @roli112233 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love this pobcarst! Thank you for making it!
    Thought I'd just mention that some transfeminine people actually access HRT thru a process called 'monotherapy', which involves only taking oestradiol, without a blocker. Sufficiently high oestradiol levels will naturally surpress testosterone (and thus other androgens like DHT, which is converted from existing testosterone). I guess 'mono' is potentially a bit of a misnomer, as I believe you could still combine this approach with progesterone.
    Perhaps transfems who are breastfeeding whilst receiving monotherapeutic HRT would have less associated risk, if the blocker is potentially problematic as you suggested.

  • @P4RXP1LL3D
    @P4RXP1LL3D หลายเดือนก่อน

    i was very very briefly breastfed as a baby but the doctors quickly advised my mum to switch to formula because i was not gaining any weight (i was already a very skinny baby) so now i'm the only person in the family that doesn't mind powdered milk, and i'm still the smallest in the family (turns out i was just genetically small, didn't need that formula after all lmao)

  • @aurieteixeira
    @aurieteixeira 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Bahahaha I’m a trans woman and I was definitely also coming up with biological advantage jokes as that information was being presented 😂😂😂

  • @barclaycork-ys5wz
    @barclaycork-ys5wz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So if im understanding anyone who has been on 'the pill' (which contains progestin the synthetic form of progesterone) , they would be capable of lactation?

    • @rileymachelle4088
      @rileymachelle4088 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah it's s a mixture of Estrogen and Progesterone I think that make you more likely to lactate. Trans women are put on both when they go on HRT

  • @ellabellab27
    @ellabellab27 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    fun fact, my dad did in fact tear my frenulum

  • @Juno-b4f
    @Juno-b4f 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    But despite being breastfed, I went on to develop lots of allergies and asthma 😅. But then I also wasn't breastfed up to the age of 6, as the World Health Organisation recommends, I guess because it's seen as socially unacceptable in the UK

  • @avamarsh-kw9be
    @avamarsh-kw9be 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    bring back luke 💔

    • @SciGuys
      @SciGuys  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He’ll be back soon!

    • @Juno-b4f
      @Juno-b4f 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😂 Luke is awesome, I love him. I'm enjoying the serious and scientific vs joking and disruptive dynamic in this video.

  • @juloris2
    @juloris2 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    wow epic countdown

  • @soupsoup8006
    @soupsoup8006 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was breastfed until I was like 2 and it was because of the health benefits . I personally would not breast feed. I Would not be a fan of having breasts . Also , I’m allergic to milk protein so I don’t even want to know what that would do to my body if I produced it myself 😟.

  • @soupsoup8006
    @soupsoup8006 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wait where is Luke it’s been a while

    • @SciGuys
      @SciGuys  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      He’s busy breastfeeding :/

    • @soupsoup8006
      @soupsoup8006 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@SciGuys I can’t believe the famous sci guys replied to me with “he’s busy breastfeeding :/“ I am going to screenshot this and hang it on my wall. Thank you.

  • @RaunienTheFirst
    @RaunienTheFirst 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Lacto- genesis like the first book in the bible not geneesis like, uh...

    • @SciGuys
      @SciGuys  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Honestly we recorded this late at night, I don’t even know where I was getting that one from

  • @BiblicallyAccurateHoodie
    @BiblicallyAccurateHoodie 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    What happen to Luke? Is he ok??

    • @ellabellab27
      @ellabellab27 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      hes probably just taking care of his baby

    • @BiblicallyAccurateHoodie
      @BiblicallyAccurateHoodie 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@ellabellab27he had a baby?? That makes sense thank you I didn’t know he had a kid lol

    • @SciGuys
      @SciGuys  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Who is Luke?

    • @NoahTheHumanFlea
      @NoahTheHumanFlea 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Luke was a social experiment made up by 2017 prank channel TH-camrs

    • @averageceilingenjoyer
      @averageceilingenjoyer 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@SciGuys he's in episode 263

  • @mchyde4433
    @mchyde4433 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Tried to get a new listener but you guys sound like 6th graders

    • @SciGuys
      @SciGuys  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      But we’re British?