The Mills administration has made a $50,000 taxpayer-funded purchase of larger size nursing bras that they say will help support both breastfeeding and “chestfeeding” for participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) federal welfare program.
[RELATED: CDC Says Trans People Can ‘Chestfeed’ Children, Accused of Not Considering Potential Health Risks…]
“Chestfeeding” is a term used by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that refers to transgender and nonbinary-gendered individuals feeding an infant from their chest, often through the off-label use of hormonal treatments to mimic the lactation of biological women.
The Maine CDC also references their support for “chestfeeding” several times on their WIC informational webpage, stating that all Maine residents — including migrants — who are “birthing parents” can receive support for “chestfeeding” through the program, and that “Non-birthing parents” can apply for their children.
According to a no-bid state contract issued Nov. 1, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Maine CDC awarded the New York-based company Nursing Naturals nearly $50,000 to buy additional nursing bras for participants in the WIC program.
“Maine WIC, as one of its core pillars of services, supports breastfeeding/chestfeeding,” the contract reads. “A proper nursing bra is essential to support breastfeeding/chestfeeding. WIC participants often cannot afford a nursing bra.”
While the state currently has a master agreement (MA) procurement contract with a separate company to supply the nursing bras for the welfare program, the state says their current contractor’s bras are “extraordinarily small” and do not fit the vast majority of the program’s participants.
“The State of Maine has a current MA for nursing bras with Medela but the bras are extraordinarily small and do not fit 80% of our participants,” the contract states, adding that even the largest size of nursing bras previously purchased under the master agreement “do not fit anyone.”
The state says that the Nursing Naturals bras have a wider ranges of sizes that go up to 5XL, and will “meet the need and fit a greater percentage of the population of breastfeeding/chest feeding participants that are served by WIC.”
The Maine Wire has previously reported on federal CDC recommendations regarding “chestfeeding,” including their advice that transgender parents who have had breast surgery and who chemically induce lactation may “chestfeed” their infants.
One CDC handout entitled “Health Equity Considerations” from June of 2022 states that “Transgender and nonbinary-gendered individuals may give birth and breastfeed or feed at the chest (chestfeed).”
“An individual does not need to have given birth to breastfeed or chestfeed,” the CDC claims.
When the CDC’s recommendations on “chestfeeding” came under public scrutiny in July 2023, several doctors came forward to warn that the risks of off-label hormone use to artificially simulate lactation could be dangerous to infants.
Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, told the Daily Mail last July that “we have no idea what the long-term effects on the child will be” from a breastfeeding trans woman using “all kinds of off-label hormones.”
“A lot of people are pushing for off-label use of a drug…it’s become to politicized that you can do all kinds of things for a politically approved purpose,” Orient told the outlet.
“The CDC has a responsibility to talk about the health risks, but they have been derelict in doing that,” Orient said.
The method that trans women can use in order to make themselves lactate is called the Newman-Goldfarb protocol, and involves several drugs, some of which are not approved for the purpose of inducing lactation and which may carry significant risks.
The protocol was initially developed in order to help induce breastmilk production in adoptive mothers, and utilizes a contraceptive pill to boost estrogen, physical stimulation with a breast pump, and the anti-nausea drug domperidone to mimic the hormonal changes women go through during pregnancy and birth.
They do because we don’t….stop paying taxes
I can’t roll my eyes hard enough at this waste of money and ungodly bulloney.
Billion dollar shortfall? Meh. Let’s buy bras for men.
She is DUMB what do you expect from a Democrat Joe pulled the wool over their eyes.
Right King!
Bidden Jr. stole from Burisma and gave to his Dad. Joe
worked for Obama and paid Obama
Were do you think he could afford 4 homes SoPo.
Way past the time to end the illogical Mills dynasty in the great northeast.
Either way, WIC should be shut off in this case. If you are a big mama in need of this supersize bra (up to 5XL), then WIC is too generous allowing you to eat too much. The feed bag needs to be cut off. If you are a guy then these bra’s are about as necessary as bringing an accordion on a deer hunt.
Mainers are you truly this deaf, dumb and blind or are you just lazy and stupid? These are your elected representatives, you voted them in !!!! Enjoy the ride suckers!!!!
Because nothing says fun like a fat guy “chest feeding” a baby! And the funny part, we, the tax payers get to pay for it!
Can’t believe I actually read that nonsense. Nursing Naturals? Anything but. So sick and bizarre. The current company’s bras don’t fit 80% of these “Chestfeeders” that can’t afford to buy their own. Sounds like they are eating pretty well and should be on a weight lose program.
“The method that trans women can use in order to make themselves lactate is called the Newman-Goldfarb protocol, and involves several drugs, some of which are not approved for the purpose of inducing lactation and which may carry significant risks.”
First of all, they’re not trans women, they’re mentally ill men pretending to be women. Secondly, the unapproved drugs are risky so why would they be used to “breastfeed” babies? People sanctioning this crap are lunatics and should be in prison.
Not only is this weird. The medicine these MEN take to leak out of their nipples is toxic for babies. Leave it to the liberals to mess something so natural up between a woman and her child.
Do we have any data on how many men in Maine actually think they can “chestfeed”?
The Mills led administration has literally crossed that line into insanity. Maine will once again be in the news for frivolous nonsensical spending of taxpayer money. God help us the next two years under democrat control.
When do we see a bill introduced in the Maine legislature to stop state government from financing aberrant behavior? It won’t be long before this crime against humanity will be in Maine school classrooms! For God’s sake, stop it!
Todays PPH reports that the major electrical suppliers say they cannot report over users of electrical power as suspected weed growers. What a stupid law And What a stupid governor which permitted this. Mills get off your ass. from kids being abused to pot growers gone wild you have failed us. You have appointed all your political hacks to the regulation boards, and you think you can run for Sue’s seat.
I doubt that back in the day when Janet Mills was feeding her children, she would have needed a larger nursing bra.
How do we stop this insanity? How do we find out BEFORE the government hands out money for such undeserving and wasteful programs? WIC was once a great program, geared solely toward insuring Women Infants and Children got nourishing food to eat. Now because of the political agenda of the democratic led CDC we are funding BRAS FOR MEN who are mentally ill and think they are woman. In addition, the CDC does not have any idea what the long-term effects will be on the infants being forced to intake the hormonally induced liquid coming out of men’s nipples. God grief – RFK Jr cannot Make America Healthy Again fast enough.
Why does Maine have to be the last retarded state?
This is a job for DOGE…. go get em Elon…..
Taxpayers now need to pay for bras for men? Just how stupid have they gotten?
Chest feeding and birthing parents because the ” Party of science” have never heard of breasts or women.
The Greatest Show on Earth! Glad our Creator God looks down and sees everythin He is coming back yo kudge the living and the dead. He has warmed us over thousends of years to be ready because we know not the hour or day that His son will return.