Gender critical campaigners today criticised a trans woman activist after she posted an image of her breastfeeding on a bus.
Mika Minio-Paluello – a former Labour special adviser – was seen during Wednesday night’s News At Ten programme doing the washing up while she spoke of how the soaring water bills were ‘tough if you’re a mum’.
Afterwards, Ms Minio-Paluello, who was born male, complained about viewers ‘obsessing’ over a breast pump that could be seen in the footage and said it belonged to a housemate. She added that ‘trans women can breastfeed’ before sharing a photo of herself doing so on a bus.
Gender critical campaigner Maya Forstater responded to the post today by writing: ‘A man is not a woman. A man is not a mother. A man having a baby suck his nipple is not breastfeeding.’
Meanwhile, author Helen Joyce added: ‘I’m not sharing a pic of the bloke on a bus breastfeeding a baby because it’s also a pic of a baby being used non-consensually as a man’s identity prop.
