By Stephanie Bastiaan

Victorian mother and breastfeeding advocate Jasmine Sussex is being taken to the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) by trans-identified male Jennifer Buckley after raising concerns online about biological males trying to chest feed newborn babies. Courts, including QCAT, have the power to summon respondents to attend proceedings in a location most convenient to the applicant. This legal action follows three years of complaints by Buckley to various authorities, including the Queensland Human Rights Commission and the e-Safety Commission, who subsequently ordered posts by Sussex that said men can't breastfeed to be removed. 

If ignoring the significance of biological sex in the context of women’s sport requires impressive powers of wilful blindness, then ignoring it while attempting to teach new mothers about breastfeeding takes this to a whole new level. The Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) now seems determined to do this and is busily ejecting volunteer counsellors who persist in pointing out the facts of female physicality.