As well as the invaluable health benefits to both mother and newborn, breastfeeding is often celebrated as a profound emotional bonding experience. However, an increasing number of young women are seeking chest masculinisation mastectomy – also known as “top surgery” – to relieve gender dysphoria or affirm a perceived gender identity.

Our bodies have been used against us since Eve plucked the apple from the tree. Our lives are constrained by our biological functions from periods to pregnancy to menopause. These are things that only happen to females. To pretend otherwise is risible.

Our bodies have been used against us since Eve plucked the apple from the tree. Our lives are constrained by our biological functions from periods to pregnancy to menopause. These are things that only happen to females.

Yesterday saw the newly-formed grassroots political campaign The Countess Didn’t Fight For This protest outside the Dail, unfurling a banner stating that ‘Women Will Not Be Erased In Language Or In Law’. The banner references recent controversies involving the HSE’s use of so-called ‘inclusive’ language on its cervical screening information literature and the presence...