From breast to chest

SIR – If women who identify as men choose to become pregnant that’s up to them. Perhaps they see themselves as “seahorse” dads – a species where the male goes through pregnancy and childbirth.

But if the term “breastfeeding” (Letters, July 30) is offensive to transgender people, perhaps we should consider the affront to others caused by “chestfeeding”.

Does this not diminish the uniquely female gift of being able to feed your child and obliterate a word that defines a feminine power?

A person could say the colour red is blue or call a cat a dog – that doesn’t make them correct. Some may decide to use the term chestfeeding in a vain attempt to kowtow to an increasingly sensitive and victimised culture – that doesn’t make them correct either. Facts and science can’t be altered to make a group of people feel better.

Breastfeeding is challenging, self-sacrificial, beautiful and something that only a woman can do. A new term can’t and won’t change this. Emilie Mcrae

Trowbridge, Wiltshire

SIR – Surely the ultra-woke Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists should be renaming midwives midspouses. Or if that isn’t imposing enough, birthing facilitators? Cynthia Harrod-eagles

Northwood, Middlesex