Brighton & Sussex University Hospital will no longer refer to
‘breastfeeding’. Instead they will say ‘chestfeeding’. Or ‘milk from
the feeding mother or parent’. Rolls off the tongue. Like breastmilk
does, all down the t-shirt of the non-specified parental unit of
unknown gender identifiers, but tits essential. Similarly there will
be no assumption that the person who just spent 47 hours thrashing
around in agony forcing 10lbs of writhing baby out of a tiny little
cervix, is a ‘mother’. She is a ‘birthing parent’. Did I say ‘she’???
Holy shit, what was I thinking. IT is a birthing parent. No
assumptions. No prejudicial terms. There’ll be no ‘midwife’, just a…
mid-thing? mid-person?? Or how about: ‘an event coordinator’. Well why
not?

And you know how ‘right on’ I am; you know I’m so woke I’ve gone all
the round and back to sleep; you know that there is simply no minority
anywhere, even if its just one single person in the whole world, for
whom I wouldn’t change every fundamental we currently hold sacred,
just to avoid upsetting their sensitivities in any way at all. But…

But it does seem like as we’re trying to re-write the entire world
history to eliminate anything and anyone to do with slavery, the
Empire, overseas rule and any connection to any Churchill, we’re now
moving our somewhat obsessive attention over to biology. And as all
those busy home-schooling will undoubtedly know; there’s a big
difference between the arts and the sciences. Because it is much
easier to rename a building, or an entire village, than it is to
remove a penis. One involves a lot of red tape, the other a lot of red
blood. Not the same at all. And the (original) purpose of all animals,
the actual reason they are here, and the only reason they arrived here
to even have the conversation, is procreation. You can philosophise
the meaning of life all you want, but if a biological act hadn’t
produced you, it would definitely affect your philosophical
aspirations. None of which relates to ‘how you identify with your
pronouns’.

Yet it is just so wrong.

Because the person giving birth may no longer identify as a female. It
may consider itself something else. Womb and breasts be damned. They
are (apparently) meaningless concepts in the face of our right to
define ourselves according to… according to… something other than
‘mere’ genitalia and secondary sexual characteristics.

It would appear that in a institutionalised effort to reduce any
possible offense to a tiny minority, we are approaching the
logic-defying realms of total insanity.

But I maintain an open mind.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx