#210 La Leche League: The Mother-to-Mother Breastfeeding Organisation Captured by Gender Ideology

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of gender ideology on the La Leche League and the experiences of former breastfeeding counselors who had their accreditations revoked.

“I don't ever want to make the mothers have to be the ones to gatekeep for who comes in. I'm going to do that for them.” La Leche League is a charity that was set up to offer mother-to-mother breastfeeding support and to protect the natural course of breastfeeding and the mother-baby dyad. Ruth, Rej, and Loreto all had their accreditation as LLL breastfeeding counsellors removed by LLL International for “breaches of the LLL Code of Conduct” and “actions that led to the public discrediting o...

Topics covered

• breastfeeding
• gender ideology
• motherhood
• support organizations

Keywords

• La Leche League
• breastfeeding support
• mother-to-mother
• LLL Code of Conduct

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