Last month, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust asked midwives to stop referring to “breastfeeding” and instead to call it “chestfeeding”, to avoid the word “mother” in favour of “birthing parent” and to call “breast milk” “human milk” so as not to offend women who have given birth who identify socially as men, of whom there have been two in this country since 2017. They are suggesting that the word “woman” is used sparingly on maternity wards which are now to be called “perinatal wards” to be more understanding to trans people. “Women don’t matter; people who have renounced being women do,” wrote Lionel Shriver in The Sunday Times.