Today, Detransitioner Chloe Cole offered testimony during a House hearing, criticizing gender ideology for causing her “irreversible harm” and expressing her “desperate plea” for her elected representatives to put an end to the practice of “gender affirming care.”
Cole testified that at age thirteen, she was taken to a gender specialist who asked her parents a simple question: “would you rather have a dead daughter or a living transgender son?” Cole’s parents, desperate for their child to survive, let their guard down and thus began a series of medically unnecessary procedures: puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and a double mastectomy.
“My voice will forever be deeper, my jaw line sharper, my nose longer, my bone structure permanently masculinized, my Adam’s apple more prominent, my fertility unknown,” Cole said. “I look in the mirror sometimes and I feel like a monster.” Cole also told legislators about the physical and emotional pain she still experiences from these procedures—sexual dysfunction, scars, and the feeling of having her womanhood taken away.
Cole’s story is not an isolated incident. Other detransitioners interviewed by the Daily Caller expressed similar physical and emotional losses, and what it felt like to become victims of medically unnecessary treatments. In fact, some of the youngest detransitioners report being as young as thirteen years old when they begin hormone therapies.
These stories demonstrate the desperation of people seeking help and their belief that they had no other options to find relief from emotional pain. But what they have found instead is the brutality of the medical industry, with tragic outcomes.
The time has come for lawmakers to take a stand against the trend of medical mutilation of children. Cole’s plea directly addressed those in power: “You alone can stop it. Enough children have already been victimized by this barbaric pseudo-science. Please let me be your final warning.”
Gender transition therapy victim Chloe Cole: "I didn't need to be lied to, I needed compassion, I needed to be loved, I needed to be given therapy to help me work through my issues, not affirming my delusion that by transitioning into a boy, it would solve all my problems." pic.twitter.com/jtHF5vtL2o
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) July 27, 2023
The practice of gender affirming care must be stopped, and the lawmakers of this nation have it in their power to make the right decision. It’s time to follow Chloe Cole’s plea and put an end to this dangerous trend, before even more irreparable harm is done.