She wasn’t capable of giving informed consent at 15 to a double mastectomy, yet medical professionals encouraged her down the path.
Friend,
Chloe Cole is perhaps the most well-known detransitioner in America. Yet, despite a growing presence in conservative media, her public profile hardly compares to transgender activists such as reality TV personality Jazz Jennings.
Unlike Jennings, you won’t find Chloe’s story featured on the cover of Variety magazine. She’s unlikely to ever be named the face of a multi-million dollar beauty ad campaign, have a commercial doll modeled after her, or land her own reality TV series.
Her story of identifying as a boy at 12-years-old and going under the knife at just 15, only to regret it a few months later, doesn’t qualify her for glitzy, lucrative, virtue-signaling endorsements. It’s so absent from establishment press, in fact, that at least one expert who heads a clinic treating gender-confused youth denies that detransitioners like Chloe are even a “real thing.”
After discovering an ideology that promised an escape from the hardships of being a girl, she pursued puberty blockers and hormones starting at age 13. Two years later, at 15, a surgeon proceeded to remove her breasts, which were not even fully developed.
Like many detransitioners who are now speaking out, having a surgeon remove her breasts failed to address Chloe’s underlying struggles with anxiety, depression, and undiagnosed autism. Instead, they acted like a Band-aid, bringing her superficial satisfaction and joy. That is, until a few weeks after the surgery, when Chloe got her stitches taken out and had to begin changing her own dressings.
“That is when reality started to hit,” Chloe said. “Every single night after every bath, after every shower, I would have to look down at these huge wounds that were on my chest.”
“No 15-year-old girl should have to go through that.”
"Something beautiful and uniquely female was taken away from me forever. And I was perfectly healthy before that. I was only a kid.”
Two and a half years later, Chloe is still struggling to come to terms with what she lost. She feels so deceived and betrayed by medical professionals who encouraged her down this path, Chloe decided to sue the endocrinologist who put her on puberty blockers and opposite-sex hormones, the gender specialist who referred her for a double mastectomy, the surgeon who removed her breasts, and the healthcare provider in the hospital that went through with it.
And yet, for the most part, Chloe and her story are siloed to the conservative press. But that won’t stop Chloe, who’s determined not to let what happened to her happen to another innocent boy or girl, from continuing to share her story. Few in the media will match her bravery and share the truth about these irreversible, damaging procedures.
