{"id":1519411,"date":"2022-06-16T17:34:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T21:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519411"},"modified":"2022-06-16T17:34:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T21:34:30","slug":"the-office-star-rainn-wilson-apologizes-for-chestfeeding-tweet-trans-activists-still-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-office-star-rainn-wilson-apologizes-for-chestfeeding-tweet-trans-activists-still-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Office\u2019 Star Rainn Wilson Apologizes For \u2018Chestfeeding\u2019 Tweet, Trans Activists Still Mad"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-office-star-rainn-wilson-apologizes-for-chestfeeding-tweet-trans-activists-still-mad%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519411&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actor Rainn Wilson, who played Dwight Schrute on the iconic NBC comedy \u201cThe Office,\u201d came under fire Wednesday after appearing to joke about politically correct language on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson had tweeted, \u201cTIL you can no longer say \u2018nursing or breastfeeding mother\u2019 you have to say \u2018chestfeeding person.\u2019 Just FYI.\u201d The offending message has since been deleted. Still, he was flooded with hateful messages, prompting an apology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday I tweeted a mean crack about breastfeeding vs chestfeeding. After speaking with some Trans friends and educating myself a bit more I want to apologize for the tweet. It was adding to misinformation and meanness. I\u2019m sorry,\u201d the actor posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yesterday I tweeted a mean crack about breastfeeding vs chestfeeding. After speaking with some Trans friends and educating myself a bit more I want to apologize for the tweet. It was adding to misinformation and meanness. I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RainnWilson (@rainnwilson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rainnwilson\/status\/1537455908485095425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The apology wasn\u2019t enough for some fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow do something to materially benefit trans people,\u201d one person <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frogmonkey420\/status\/1537456671399809025\">demanded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]hese replies rlly ain\u2019t it, this guy has 4.4m followers and contributed to misinformation and transphobia. words are one thing, but it\u2019s really important to follow them up with action. if he can\u2019t donate, i\u2019m sure he can use his platform towards aiding and supporting trans ppl,\u201d another person agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Trans activist Parker Molloy <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/rVGGw#selection-623.0-623.180\">replied<\/a> to the original tweet saying, \u201cJesus Christ. Dwight freaking Schrute over here sputtering nonsense straight off Breitbart. (Nobody is telling anyone they have to say \u201cchestfeeding.\u201d That\u2019s just not a thing. JFC).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Molloy went on to mock the idea of \u201cchestfeeding\u201d being a mainstream word, claiming that no organizations were trying to make the general public use the term in place of \u201cbreastfeeding.\u201d Meanwhile, the international organization The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine encourages this and other \u201cgender-inclusive\u201d terms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cABM recognizes that not all people who give birth and lactate identify as female, and that some of these individuals identify as neither female nor male. To be inclusive of all people in our written materials, use of desexed or gender-inclusive language (e.g., using \u201clactating person\u201d instead of \u201cmother\u201d) is appropriate in many settings,\u201d a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfmed.org\/assets\/Gender%20Inclusive%20Statement.pdf\">report<\/a> reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur readership should be aware that the intention of our written materials, such as protocols and position statements, is to be inclusive of all breastfeeding\/chestfeeding and human milkfeeding individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The document \u201cInfant Feeding and Lactation-Related Language and Gender,\u201d was written by eight doctors and endorsed by the group.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Rainn Wilson, who played Dwight Schrute on the iconic NBC comedy \u201cThe Office,\u201d came under fire Wednesday after appearing to joke about politically correct language on social media. Wilson had tweeted, \u201cTIL you can no longer say \u2018nursing or breastfeeding mother\u2019 you have to say \u2018chestfeeding person.\u2019 Just FYI.\u201d The offending message has since &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1519484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}