It's awfully rude and unkind to draw attention to these kinds of risks, I know. But isn't that rather the point of safeguarding? Kindness is complicated.

Bearing in mind what a very wicked world it is — and that autogynephilia is a thing, and some autogynephile men will fetishise pretty much any aspect of femaleness — are there any foreseeable risks in condoning male "breastfeeding"?

But I'm by an order of magnitude more cautious (putting it mildly) about the impact on an infant of being "breastfed" by a male artificially induced to lactate. For whose benefit is this really done? And what is the nature of the "benefit"?

I don't know the data on the respective merits of formula and wet-nursing, for an orphaned infant. If the actual mother is available, I'd be cautious about the impact of wet-nursing on the mother-infant bond, but that could be addressed by evidence.

So we are presumably proceeding on the assumption that the female mother is dead, or can't breastfeed (perhaps a "trans man" who has had her breasts removed?), or is otherwise unavailable (a surrogate, maybe; another whole can of worms).

Are you able to help my failing imagination here? The child must have had an actual female mother, who we presumably agree would be the best person to breastfeed her, if available?

I am struggling to imagine circumstances in which it would be in the best interests of an infant to be "breastfed" by a male person who has been induced to lactate. I failed my maths degree, but some things stuck, including "confession of failure of the imagination does not amount to proof".

I re-read "That Hideous Strength" not long ago. The portrayal of the moral corruption of Mark Studdock by bureaucratic evil, using a combination of menace, flattery and calculated desensitisation to horror, had strong contemporary resonances for me.

If you want to complain about me, I'm regulated by the Bar Standards Board www.barstandardsboard.org.uk

I asked rhetorically, given the SC's judgment, what was the remaining point of medical transition. I don't think it is fair to characterise that as saying that that is the only point of all gender transition, do you?

Oh fab, thank you so much! Especially for braving yet again the hordes of <checks notes> very kind people here.

If my account here is still marked "intolerant"... well, in all honesty I'm feeling pretty intolerant right now.

And quite a lot of "I'll piss where I like" including threats to piss on TERFs. Which as Richard Dawkins points out is classic male territory-marking behaviour.

I think this reads "The Guv can suck my [?] girlie [?] dick"

The handwriting is poor, so I'm not completely sure of the last two words.

"The only good TERF is a ____ one"

Did she manage to say anything correct?

Oh, so it is! It popped up somewhere for me as if new.