Diversity Is Our Strength 
Me (cis f) and my soulmate (mtf) are having our son on Friday and we just finished her second lactation consultation today. She's been on a protocol of hormones that essentially mimics pregnancy and can trigger lactation it's looking like she's starting to produce a milky like substance which she got swabbed today during the appointment. Her breast development has also sky rocketed since the new protocol and she's really happy with that. She's just been glowing and I can see her confidence increasing which makes me so happy for her. If all is well she will be able to eventually feed our baby (we will both be breastfeeding).
The lactation consultant seems really hopeful and excited because there aren't many cases of situations like ours. There have been studies about trans women breastfeeding but what makes our situation a little different is that our baby is my fiancées biological son. I feel like in a way my fiancée will be able to help other trans women in the sense of providing the lactation consultant with this experience and further knowledge on MTF breastfeeding. Her lactation consultant has dealt with lesbian couples before, but not a lesbian cis/trans couple.
On top of that, my fiancée is so excited to be a mother and I know she's going to be amazing at it, I can't wait to see her hold and love our son and I'm so excited to start this new chapter with her. I love her so much.
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What really annoys me - apart from the issue of using your child to satisfy your fetish - is the fact that these people don't realize that yes, men and trans women can actually induce lactation but no, that is not the same as natural breast milk. It lacks virtually all of the nutrients, antibodies etc contained in breast milk that are pretty essential for your child. So if there already is one woman who naturally produces the real thing there's absolutely no reason for the trans person to breastfeed as well, other that stroking your ego and euphoria boner
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