Do MTF Transgenders Lactate?
925241
It can happen if hormone mix and stimulation is set to allow it, but I don't think they commonly do.\nAnd contrary to what the other guy said, the glands *are* there in males, just dormant.  There have been cases where non-transgendered men started lactating, usually because something in the environment was messing with their hormone levels.
241972
Duct taping, huh?  Ever consider gender reassignment?
360707
Actually yes you can. I don't have sources but I do remember hearing about this back in high school from one of my teachers how a tribe of indiginous people of South America that kept injured men of the tribe useful by having the babies breast feed from the men. If enough suckling action is applied to the nipple, a man's body will actually begin to produce higher levels of estrogen and provide small amounts of milk. \n\nAccording to the study, it took a very long time and would probably not work for other people but since this had been a long practice of the tribe, it worked for them.
352192
Well, it depends on what sort of drug therapy they are on.  Hormone therapy definately changes natural odors.  You can even ask this question of women who have gone through menopause or had hystorectomies!!  I have known post-ops that I couldn't tell by sight or smell to have once been men, and I am very sensitive to these things since I am a bisexual woman.\n\nBut of course, any transexual is doing it to feel comfortable in their own skin, not to impress anyone else.
1126725
if the woman is lactating (producing milk) HIV may be passed through her milk.  other than that, no
62023
They must have hormones that can simulate lactating, I know they have one to do the reverse…better than getting pregnant like everyone is suggesting…you just have to find a doctor that’ll do it and then someone that isn't lactose intolerant.
449265
most men, gay or straight, were breast-fed.  i think there's just something biologically comforting about breasts, as the original source of food and affection.  as women, we have our own, but men must be drawn to them on a subconscious level, even if they're not sexually interested in the woman.
1122265
Ask your doctor to run thyroid tests, hormone tests including testosterone.  HRT can be done in other ways not just a pill or a patch.  There are compounding pharmacies out there that make natural hormone replacement like estrogen cream, and micronized natural oral progesterone that don't carry the risks that the mainstream drug companies products do.  Suzanne Summers wrote a very good book about this about 2 yrs ago.\nTestosterone can be helpful for women but the testing should be done first.
645957
All human embryos in the womb look the same externally, until testosterone is either added or not.  If not, the baby will develop physically as a girl, if the testosterone is added, the baby develops physically as a boy.  This is true regardless of the XX or XY chromosome of the baby.  The nipples develop prior to the addition of the testosterone.\n\nThey are there because the child could have developed as a woman, and the only purpose that I can think of that they have for men is perhaps a little thrill when your lover pinches them. :)
173177
I have never heard of anything that can change gender (or sex) unless through operation as for human beings. And moreover a frog is from a tadpole hatched from an egg.
493326
The best anyone can do is offer a guess--no one knows for sure.  We do know that all human fetuses begin development as females, and only become male when they are exposed to male hormones while they develop.  Ovaries and testes are initially the same structure, but they develop into different things based upon the fetus' genes.  If they develop into testes, the fetus starts producing testosterone.  This also determines whether another structure develops into a penis or a clitoris, and my guess is that it also determines whether breast tissue becomes enlarged and develops milk-producing tissue.  So my short answer is, men have teats because for a little while in the womb, they were actually women.  Isn't it strange how our bodies work?
995781
It's a survival trait from mankinds long past.\n\nIn periods of drought and famine, males are capabale of  nursing.  That doubles the number of food sources for baby when times are tough.\n\nMen don't lactate now because of social "norms" rather than biological restrictions.
1012336
its mothers milk honey,, dont get stressed. \n all women lactate.. some more than others.\nsome when they are not pregnant......
1027563
No.  If it continues for more than a day or so, you should see a physician.  Believe it not, all the things which can go wrong with breasts can go wrong with males as well since they have exactly the same breast tissue women do (though there is usually a lot less in males).
1030685
None. Males and females are essentially the same during development until a hormonal event causes males to develop male genitalia. Because of this, we have some of the same physical characteristics and thus males have nipples.
734061
Men don't develop breast tissue, but they do have nipples.  All humans at one point in time are a woman.  It all depends if the Y chromosome is present or not.  If it is, the body sends out testosterone changing the woman to a male.  The organs "down there" change to male organs, but the nipples just stay where they are.  So in a sence, men have nipples because women have them.
492591
Not every woman who lactates has an increase in breast size.