Stupid response about chest feeding results from chatgpt un-biased ...

 

This is basically to do with this silly 'chest feeding' thing that is going around social media about child abuse and breast feeding by 'males' and those 'males' being trans-gender.  In a nutshell - the argument hold no water whatsoever.  As it was close to midnight when I saw a post about it, I simply asked ChatGPT to go all the leg work and I was simply going to report the findings, which is below.  Again like so much nonsense related to trans-gender people, this again is an utter waste of my time researching.

Trans-women are breasts just like a biological women, but generally do not produce milk, you want that, go to the dairy section at your local grocery store.  Trans-gender women care for children like everyone else.  Anyway's, below are the findings, go read, and then shush. 

In summary ... CIS-GENDER-MEN do it some, CIS-GENDER-WOMEN do it some, trans-women zero to next to zero findings ...

 

MY QUESTION TO CHATGPT -

“something got posted about 'chest feeding'. it was obviously posted as a anti-trans female thing, but stated the usual 'men with a fetish', but the quote was there is a 'decidedly non-zero amount of offenders'. i have not heard of this before and as such want to know everything like i usually do and then produce some kind of slide with real numbers and info, so what can you tell me about it and is it a bunch of the usual nonsense. ”

Yes — I looked into this specifically, because the wording you remember, “a decidedly non-zero amount of offenders,” is exactly the sort of statement where we need to find out what the underlying number actually is.

And there is an important distinction here:

There is a real phenomenon of sexual interest in lactation/breastfeeding. There is also a real phenomenon of sexual offending against children. But I am not finding evidence that connects those two phenomena to transgender women who chest/breastfeed their own infants.

In fact, the available research points in a very different direction.

First: "chestfeeding" itself isn't the suspicious thing

Chestfeeding is simply terminology used by some transgender men, nonbinary people, and some transgender women to describe feeding an infant at the breast/chest. It isn't a sexual practice.

There is now actual research on this.

A 2026 study using the PRIDE Study included 1,562 sexual- and gender-minority parents, including 232 transgender women. Seven transgender women (3% of the trans-woman subgroup) reported having breast/chestfed a child. The study explicitly describes this in the context of infant feeding and parent-child bonding—not sexual behavior. (Sage Journals)

That's particularly useful for what you're investigating because this is actual empirical data, rather than somebody's speculation about what trans women supposedly do.

And there are documented medical cases of induced lactation in transgender women. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine's 2026 clinical guidance acknowledges that some transgender women may desire to lactate/chestfeed their children and describes induced lactation as a real clinical possibility. (ASRM)

But there is a lactation fetish

This is where the anti-trans argument takes something real and then makes a gigantic logical jump.

There is a recognized phenomenon sometimes called lactophilia, erotic lactation, or adult nursing—sexual interest in lactation, breastfeeding, or sucking on a lactating breast.

That phenomenon isn't specifically transgender.

It can involve cisgender men, cisgender women, and people of other gender identities.

And there's nothing inherently pathological about consensual sexual behavior between adults simply because it involves lactation.

So:

"Some people are sexually aroused by lactation" → TRUE.

But:

"Therefore a trans woman who feeds her infant is engaging in a sexual fetish" → DOES NOT FOLLOW.

And that's an extremely important distinction for your slide.

What about the "offenders"?

This is where I think the claim you encountered is probably doing something rhetorically clever.

There certainly are people who sexually abuse children.

There are also offenders who have bizarre or paraphilic sexual interests.

There are also people who have sexual interests involving breasts, lactation, or nursing.

But I cannot find a credible epidemiological study establishing:

transgender women + chestfeeding + sexual fetish + child sexual offending

as a measurable phenomenon.

That's a completely different claim.

And if somebody says there is a "decidedly non-zero amount," the scientifically appropriate response is:

"Okay. What is the numerator and what is the denominator?"

Because technically, one documented offender makes something non-zero.

But that doesn't tell you whether you're talking about:

• 1 person,

• 10 people,

• 100 people,

• 0.0001%,

• 0.1%,

• or something genuinely epidemiologically significant.

"Non-zero" is almost meaningless without a denominator.

There is actually some interesting data going the other direction

The 2026 PRIDE Study is particularly interesting because it gives us a real-world population in which transgender parents are actually reporting their infant-feeding experiences.

Among the 1,562 parents:

Group	Number
Sexual-minority cis women	941
Transgender women	232
Transgender men	199
Gender-diverse AFAB parents	190

Seven transgender women reported having breast/chestfed a child.

The researchers specifically interpreted this as evidence that some transgender women can and do participate in infant feeding, including through induced lactation. They discuss the practice in terms of nutrition, bonding and family participation—not sexual behavior. (Sage Journals)

That's pretty important because it gives us something much better than anecdotes.

And there's another interesting clue

Research on transgender and gender-diverse parents isn't finding that lactation is somehow inherently eroticized by these people.

For example, a 2023 cross-sectional study surveyed 647 transgender and gender-diverse parents about breastfeeding/chestfeeding. The researchers examined things such as hormone therapy, gender dysphoria, violence, discrimination, fertility treatment and feeding education as factors affecting feeding. They did not identify sexual fetishism as an explanation for the behavior. (PubMed Central (PMC))

Likewise, current clinical guidance treats infant feeding as exactly what you'd expect it to be: infant feeding.

So I would separate four things

This is probably the cleanest way to eventually make your graphic.

1. Breast/chestfeeding

Normal infant feeding behavior.

Not inherently sexual.

2. Lactophilia / erotic lactation

A sexual interest involving lactation.

Real phenomenon.

But it isn't uniquely transgender.

3. AGP

Blanchard's proposed phenomenon involving sexual arousal associated with imagining oneself as female.

Not synonymous with lactophilia.

Someone could theoretically have one without the other.

4. Child sexual abuse

Sexual behavior involving a child.

Completely different category.

And importantly, the existence of #2 does not establish #4.

And I think I know where your eventual slide can get really interesting

Instead of making a slide saying:

"This claim is bullshit."

we could make something considerably harder to argue with:

CHESTFEEDING: WHAT DOES THE DATA ACTUALLY SHOW?

Then have columns:

CLAIM | WHAT WE ACTUALLY KNOW

"Trans women chestfeed because of a fetish"
→ No epidemiological evidence establishing this.

"Breastfeeding/chestfeeding is sexual"
→ No. Infant feeding is not inherently sexual.

"Some people have lactation fetishes"
→ Yes. Lactophilia/erotic lactation is a real phenomenon.

"Some people sexually abuse children"
→ Obviously yes, but that doesn't establish a relationship to transgender parents.

"Trans women have chestfed infants"
→ Yes. Documented clinically and now represented in empirical research.

"How many trans women chestfeed?"
→ Very little population-level data exists.

And that last one is crucial. We shouldn't manufacture a number just because somebody on social media demands one.

If you want to take this all the way, I can dig specifically for the "offender" claim—FBI/DOJ/UK Home Office/NSPCC/academic sexual-offense literature, lactation-fetish literature, and any actual cases involving transgender women and infant feeding—and see whether there is any documented statistical connection. That would give us the hard-number foundation for the slide rather than simply arguing from absence of evidence.

MY QUESTION TO CHATGPT …

“Yes dig into the "offender claim" as I want to see some real numbers either way positive or negative.”

I dug into this much more narrowly: is there evidence that transgender women who breast/chestfeed infants constitute a meaningful population of sexual offenders, particularly because of lactophilia/AGP?

Bottom line

I cannot find an epidemiological dataset showing such a connection. More importantly, I can't find a study that even establishes the numerator needed to calculate one.

So if the post said something like:

"There is a decidedly non-zero amount of offenders who are men with a breastfeeding fetish."

there are two very different possibilities:

1. Literally true in the trivial mathematical sense — there are individual cases involving sexualized breastfeeding and child abuse.

2. Being presented as a meaningful characteristic of transgender women who chestfeed — I find no evidence supporting that claim.

That's a very important distinction.

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1. There really are people with an erotic lactation fetish

This part isn't nonsense.

The research literature calls it lactophilia, erotic lactation, or sometimes lactation/breast-milk fetishism.

One particularly useful study involved 2,190 respondents recruited specifically from online communities devoted to pregnancy/lactation fetishism. So this isn't a representative population survey—it was deliberately sampling people interested in the subject. (PubMed)

Of those respondents:

• 71% reported both pregnancy and lactation preferences

• 14% reported pregnancy preference only

• 11% reported lactation preference only

• 4% reported neither and were excluded from further analysis

Those percentages therefore cannot be interpreted as prevalence in the general population. The researchers recruited people from fetish communities in the first place. (Psychology Today)

And that's probably the strongest quantitative study I can find concerning lactation fetishism.

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2. But the fetish is not the same thing as child sexual abuse

This is where the anti-trans argument appears to make its big leap.

The literature describes lactophilia as sexual interest in things such as:

• lactating adult breasts

• breast milk

• sucking a lactating woman's breast

• observing lactation

• adult nursing relationships

The sexual object is generally an adult.

That doesn't automatically translate into sexual interest in the infant.

In fact, the research study above was specifically investigating attraction to pregnant and lactating women, not children. (OUP Academic)

So:

lactophilia ≠ pedophilia

and

lactophilia ≠ child sexual abuse.

A person can obviously have multiple paraphilic interests, but you can't infer one from the other.

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3. I looked specifically for the "offender" connection

This is where things become quite interesting.

I searched for combinations of:

• lactophilia + sexual offenders

• erotic lactation + child abuse

• lactation fetish + child pornography

• breastfeeding fetish + offenders

• sexualized breastfeeding + child abuse

• transgender women + sexual offenders + breastfeeding

• transgender women + lactation + sexual abuse

I did not find a population study establishing a prevalence of child sexual offending among people with lactophilia.

And I found no epidemiological study establishing a prevalence of lactophilia among transgender women who breast/chestfeed.

Consequently, we can't produce the attractive-looking statistic that the social-media post probably wants:

"X% of trans women who chestfeed are sexual offenders."

There simply isn't a dataset from which to calculate it.

That is an important finding in itself.

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4. There ARE individual cases involving sexualized breastfeeding

And this is where I don't want to swing too far in the opposite direction and claim "there are no cases."

There absolutely are documented cases of breastfeeding being deliberately incorporated into sexual material involving children.

One example is the Leigh Felten case in Florida. She produced videos involving her infant son that prosecutors characterized as sexually explicit. She was acquitted of most of the charges but convicted of lewd/lascivious exhibition involving a child and remains registered as a sexual offender. (LegalClarity)

That's an actual case.

But notice what's important:

The offender was a cisgender woman.

So if somebody takes a case like this and uses it to imply:

"People who breastfeed because they're trans are sexual offenders"

the actual case doesn't support that conclusion.

It demonstrates something much narrower:

Breastfeeding can, in exceptional circumstances, be deliberately sexualized and incorporated into child sexual exploitation.

That's true.

But that's not evidence of a transgender phenomenon.

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5. There is another really important distinction

Consider these four situations:

Situation	Sexual?	Evidence of abuse?
Mother breastfeeds infant	No	No
Trans woman breastfeeds her infant	No inherent sexual component	No
Adult has lactation fetish with consenting adult	Yes	No
Adult sexualizes breastfeeding involving a child	Yes	Yes

The fourth category is the one that matters for the offender question.

The existence of the third does not establish the fourth.

And the existence of the fourth does not establish anything about the second.

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6. What about transgender women specifically?

This is where the evidence becomes surprisingly sparse.

A 2024 Breastfeeding Medicine case report noted that there were only four published case reports of successful induced lactation in transgender patients at that point. The paper describes a 50-year-old transgender woman who successfully induced lactation and breastfed. (Sage Journals)

That's obviously far too small a population to study something as rare as sexual offending.

More recent research has started providing larger observational samples. But even there, the research is about whether transgender women breast/chestfeed, their experiences, lactation success, and infant-feeding practices—not sexual offending.

So we have something like:

Population of transgender women who chestfeed

↓

small and poorly characterized

↓

population with lactation fetish

↓

unknown

↓

population who sexually offend against children

↓

no usable epidemiological number

That makes a claim about a significant offender rate scientifically indefensible.

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7. The "decidedly non-zero" wording is actually a red flag

If somebody deliberately uses that phrase, I'd ask:

"What is the numerator?"

If they can't answer that, the statement is essentially rhetorical.

Suppose there is one documented offender in the entire history of the phenomenon.

Then:

1 / unknown population = non-zero

Technically true.

But it tells you absolutely nothing about prevalence.

For comparison, saying:

"There is a decidedly non-zero number of airline pilots who have committed murder."

would be true if we could identify even one.

It would be intellectually dishonest to turn that into:

"Airline pilots have a murder problem."

That's exactly why epidemiology requires rates and denominators, rather than isolated cases.

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8. And here's the really interesting part for your eventual graphic

There are actually three numbers we can legitimately put on the slide:

2,190

Participants in the major lactation/pregnancy fetish study.

But:

Not a prevalence sample.

They were recruited from fetish communities. (ScienceDirect)

7

Transgender women in a recent PRIDE Study sample who reported breast/chestfeeding a child.

That's 3% of the 232 transgender women in that particular sample, not 3% of transgender women generally. And it is not an offender statistic. (Sage Journals)

1 documented example

A particularly prominent U.S. case involving sexualized breastfeeding of a child resulted in a sex-offense conviction—but the offender was a cisgender woman, not a transgender woman. (LegalClarity)

And most importantly:

No established number

for:

transgender women who chestfeed + lactophilia + child sexual offending.

That's the number the social-media claim would actually need.

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So my preliminary verdict

The underlying pieces are real, but the implied connection appears unsupported.

Claim	Evidence
Lactation can be a sexual fetish	Yes
There are people with lactophilia	Yes
Some people sexually exploit children using breastfeeding imagery	Yes, documented cases
Lactophilia means someone is attracted to children	No
Lactophilia is specifically a transgender phenomenon	No evidence
Trans women who chestfeed have an elevated offending rate	No evidence found
There is a known percentage of trans chestfeeding women who are offenders	No dataset found
There are individual offenders who have sexualized breastfeeding	Yes
Therefore chestfeeding trans women represent a child-safety risk	Not supported by the evidence

And I think this is actually a much stronger position for your eventual slide than simply saying "that's anti-trans nonsense." We can acknowledge the uncomfortable facts that really do exist—including erotic lactation and actual criminal cases—and then show exactly where the argument jumps from documented phenomenon → unsupported association.

And we can put actual numbers beside it.

The numbers I'd currently consider defensible

4,208 — women with prior sexual offenses in the 2026 female sexual-recidivism meta-analysis.
3.1% — known sexual recidivism among those women.

2.2% — female proportion of officially reported sexual offenders in the 2017 international meta-analysis.
11.6% — female proportion indicated by victimization surveys.

38 studies — community studies in the 2026 CSEA perpetration meta-analysis.

99 — gender-diverse offenders in the Canadian federal correctional study; 82% of those with sexual-offense histories were trans women.

245 — transgender prisoners reporting legal gender as male in England/Wales in March 2024; 151 had a sexual-offense conviction. But this is a prison-selected denominator, not a population prevalence.

And most importantly:

0 — no established epidemiological numerator for "transgender women who chestfeed and sexually offend against children."

That's not evidence that the true number is zero. It's evidence that the claimed statistic doesn't currently exist.