drug treatment facility

For the sake of my mental wellbeing I'll keep this short. I admitted myself to a women-only treatment facility for a reason, as did every other woman there. Our lives has been devastated by men. Joining us was a man with split personalities - one was "Tinkerbell" who loves nail polish and the color green. The other was "Bob" who had been responsible for heinous crimes against children and women. He would recall stories of his "old self" that triggered all of us. He would follow me into the restroom just to see me my wash my hands, or close the stall door. He began stalking a woman who left treatment because of him. Nobody involved felt safe giving a statement because the social repercussions of doing so were too great.

#unitedstates #drugtreatmentfacility #recoveryservices

breastfeeding volunteer support organization for mothers

The Australian Breastfeeding Association is under attack from within. A small group of influential breastfeeding counsellor volunteers are trying to force a change in the organisation's mission from mother-to-mother support for breastfeeding to "lactation support" for “parents”.

This language change will create space for men who identify as women to be affirmed and supported by trained ABA volunteers to chemically induce male lactation.

The female volunteers who are desperately lobbying head office to become a male inclusive lactation organisation are also trying to coerce gender critical counsellors to use “parenting” language by launching coordinated concocted complaints against mothers who call themselves mothers.

Only women who have breastfed for at least six months are eligible to train as peer support breastfeeding counsellors. They are not trained to support men wishing to induce lactation as part of their trans sexual identity.

The ABA is currently struggling to stave off this coordinated attack. The Association of Breastfeeding Mothers in Britain has co-opted transgenderism to appease the gender identity activists. La Leche League has long since welcomed men as potential lactators without any studies done on the safety of male breastmilk for men or babies.

Will the Australian Breastfeeding Association be the next great sex-based support group to fall?

#australia #breastfeeding #breastfeedingsupport #supportgroups #mothers

dormitory bathrooms

I go to a STEM-focused university somewhere in the states. Being STEM-focused, about only 20% of the student population is female. As a result, there are no female-only dorms or floors. I was always in a co-ed dorm. Students are required to live on campus for 1-2 years due to scholarship status. I had to live in the dorms for 2 years, but thankfully no longer. Either way, I still was impacted. During my freshman year after winter break, signs went up in all bathrooms that pretty much said "does someone look like they belong (as in transgender people)? They do belong! Don't stare at them or question them, because that's offensive!" It came off as rather threatening, honestly. I was rather annoyed with these signs, but I didn't have any actual issues until my sophomore year. Sophomore year, one of the RAs on my floor was a transgender identified male, he identified as a woman. So of course, he shared the women's restroom and showers with us. Fortunately, in this building the showers were in separate little rooms with locks. However, this RA would always knock on the door to these showers and then would immediately open it before listening for a response. Even if he heard the shower going! Many women did not lock their doors, so I knew multiple who were victims of this happening. However unfortunately, the other female students still treated him as a "woman," even though he walked in on them showering. After hearing this happen to some friends, I was quite scared to go into the showers and bathrooms. I always locked the doors, but he was an RA, so he could theoretically open it if he wanted because he had keys. Overall, it was an unsafe situation. I no longer live in the dorms, but I have a feeling it will get worse. I feel horrible for all future women who have to live in dorms.

#unitedstates #dormitorybathrooms #universitycampus #showers #sexualharassment