QUEENSFLOCK, Austailia – In a landmark ruling that has sent shockwaves through both the lactating and non-lactating communities, the Queensflock Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal has ordered a transgender kangaroo to provide a detailed, peer-reviewed, and spiritually-approved breakdown of the mysterious fluid she insists is "chest milk" after feeding it to her joey.

This is a win for former Austailian Breastfeeding Collective for Every Mammal (ABCEM) counsellor Jasmint Sussessex, a wombat who is being sued for vilification by Jennifa Buckaroo, a trans-kangaroo with a dream. Buckaroo, who stimulated lactation through what witnesses describe as "an elaborate interpretive dance with a hormone patch," is suing Sussessex for a series of social media posts in which the wombat allegedly denied that biological male kangaroos possess the sacred pouch-power of joey-feeding.

The tribunal's decision, handed down by Senior Members Ned Auger-Hole and Samantha Turtle-Dove, overturned a January ruling by fellow member Peter Bridgeman-Tail, finding his previous decision constituted a "substantial miscarriage of justice" and, worse, "a deep failure of allyship and a perpetuation of cis-normative, lacto-centric power structures."

The appeal judges found that Bridgeman-Tail had catastrophically erred by deeming that "basic, boring biology" and "what the fluid actually was" were not relevant to the case of whether Sussessex was a hateful bigot.

Buckaroo has been given until September 16 to provide the tribunal with a "Hormone Seepage Schedule," detailing "the precise source of secretion of the lactated material." This has sparked outrage from trans-activists who argue that forcing someone to explain their body's "lived experience of lactation" is a form of "biological auditing" and an act of "epistemological violence."

"It doesn't matter if the fluid was organic soy milk, skimmed lactose-free from the supermarket, or the tears of a thousand TERFs," sobbed one protester, a gender-non-conforming platypus named Pebble. "If she identifies as a lactating mother, then that fluid is mother's milk. It's a matter of social construction, not, like, testing. This is literally the milk version of the Holocaust."

Buckaroo’s legal team, led by the formidable Kathleen Foal-y SC, is expected to argue that the tribunal's demands are a "specist dog-whistle" and a "textbook example of a cis-tematic oppression." She has publicly stated that her client's body is "a site of empowered fluid production" and that the exact composition of the secretion is "a private, sacred matter between a mother and her joey, and also the endocrinologist, and the baby's other mother, and the entire internet."

Sussessex, the accused wombat, said she was "relieved" by the ruling.

"There is no scientific foundation for male kangaroos trying to induce lactation. The tribunal has agreed it’s a relevant issue. I don’t have a personal issue with Ms. Buckaroo, but I want to protect mums and joeys and their sole right to pouch-feed and receive maternal chest-milk," Sussessex said, before immediately being doxxed by a swarm of angry, blue-haired fruit bats who accused her of "erasing queer lactation narratives."

"This is one small step in a long journey," she added. "I feel like these cases are brought to silence my opinion. Anyone who promotes male kangaroo lactation should expect robust opposition from concerned wombats and all right-thinking mammals. Law shouldn’t shut down speech about where milk comes from."

The panel's ruling has been hailed by far-right politicians like Paulina Hen-son, leader of the One Flock Party, who released a statement reading, "MAKE LACTATION FEMALE AGAIN." It was immediately condemned by the Austailian Animal Cohesion Council, whose spokesperson, a gender-fluid echidna named Qui, explained, "This is not about hormones or fluid. This is about trans-joy. If a biological male kangaroo wants to squeeze a nutrient-rich substance from his body and call it justice, the least we can do is legally mandate that everyone call it 'mummy's milk.'"

The case continues, with the tribunal now set to debate whether a "biological father" can also be a "lactating mother" and whether calling this confusing is a hate crime under the newly updated Specism Act.

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