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Nineteen-year-old Chloe Cole brought a strong (and heartbreaking) message to Congress Thursday, saying that the so-called "gender-affirming" care she received "ruined" her childhood and has caused lasting negative consequences which she will live with forever. President Biden, along with his transgender Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, has forcefully advocated that such care be given to minors even when the long-term effects of surgeries and hormone treatments are largely unknown.
What is known, however, is that 15-year-olds who aren't old enough for a cigarette, a tattoo, a beer, or a driver's license should not be allowed to opt to disfigure their bodies simply because they're having complicated adolescent feelings.
Speaking before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, Cole was harshly critical of the medical establishment and the toll their advice has taken on her life:Watch the courageous young woman push back against the monolithic message from progressives and the lamestream media who think we should all just blindly accept the concept that teenagers can swap their genders as easily as they switch outfits:Quote:
I used to believe that I was born in the wrong body. And the adults in my life, whom I trusted, affirmed my belief, and this caused me lifelong, irreversible harm.
I speak to you today as a victim of one of the biggest medical scandals in the history of the United States of America.
I speak to you in the hope that you will have the courage to bring the scandal to an end and ensure that other vulnerable teenagers, children and young adults, don't go through what I went through.
This is the message I want to send to all of the parents of children who have been victimized by this insidious gender ideology. pic.twitter.com/a2kCHN9S3y
— Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChoooCole) July 27, 2023
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She simply tells it like it is:Puberty is not an illness, she saidit's a natural stage of life:Quote:
"We need to stop telling 12-year-olds that they were born wrong, that they are right to reject their own bodies and feel uncomfortable with their own skin," said Cole, who told lawmakers Thursday that she felt uncomfortable during puberty and told her parents at that age that she wanted to transition and become a boy. "We need to stop telling children that puberty is an option. That they can choose what kind of puberty they will go through just [like] they can choose what clothes to wear or music to listen to."Quote:
Puberty is a rite of passage to adulthood, not a disease to be mitigated.
Today, I should be at home with my family, celebrating my 19th birthday, and instead I'm making a desperate plea to my representatives: Learn the lessons from other medical scandals like the opioid crisis to recognize that doctors are human too. And sometimes they are wrong.