{"id":121993,"date":"2021-02-17T10:32:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/?p=121993"},"modified":"2021-02-17T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:32:24","slug":"chestfeeding-and-parents-milk-terms-to-use-to-be-more-gender-inclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/2021\/02\/17\/chestfeeding-and-parents-milk-terms-to-use-to-be-more-gender-inclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Chestfeeding and Parent&#8217;s Milk: Terms to Use to Be More Gender Inclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The terms &#8220;breast\/chest feeding&#8221; and &#8220;human\/parent&#8217;s milk&#8221; instead of &#8220;breastfeeding&#8221; and &#8220;mother&#8217;s milk&#8221; to describe lactation are being used to support gender-inclusive parenting.\u00a0 This advice cites a 2019 study by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~dinourl\">Dr. Lauren Dinour<\/a>, Associate Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/nutrition-and-food-studies\">Nutrition and Food Studies Department<\/a>, who stated that &#8220;heterosexual and woman-focused lactation language&#8230;can misgender, isolate and harm transmasculine parents and non-heteronormative families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/16\/university-handbook-encourages-staff-to-adopt-gender-neutral-language\/\">Learn more about an Australian University that is adapting this language in their handbook at NYPost.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The terms &#8220;breast\/chest feeding&#8221; and &#8220;human\/parent&#8217;s milk&#8221; instead of &#8220;breastfeeding&#8221; and &#8220;mother&#8217;s milk&#8221; to describe lactation are being used to support gender-inclusive parenting.\u00a0 This advice cites a 2019 study by Dr. Lauren Dinour, Associate Professor in the Nutrition and Food Studies Department, who stated that &#8220;heterosexual and woman-focused lactation language&#8230;can misgender, isolate and harm transmasculine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":121994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-23_college-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121995,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121993\/revisions\/121995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}