Detransitioner Chloe Cole slams the breast-removal op she endured aged 15 in ... trends now
California teen Chloe Cole, perhaps the most famous American to undergo sex-transition surgery as a child and later regret it, has spoken passionately about her procedure being like 'Nazi-era experiments'.
Addressing a think tank in Washington, Cole, 18, said she was coerced into taking puberty blockers and having both breasts surgically removed when she was 15, and warned of other minors being misdiagnosed and pushed into similar operations.
Cole late last year unveiled plans to sue the doctors who authorized her surgery and 'gender-affirming care', as it is known, fast becoming a poster child for conservatives who want to protect other kids from a similar outcome.
'It's important to know how awful it really is,' Cole told the Heritage Foundation about her double mastectomy.
'Really, it's like Nazi-era experiments.'
Chloe Cole, 18, who transitioned to male at 13 before later regretting her decision at 16, says breast removal operations on trans kids are 'like Nazi-era experiments'
Chloe Cole 'medically transitioned' between the ages of 13 and 16, having her mastectomy surgeries at 15 in June 2020
Cole described having mental health issues and family problems as a child and becoming exposed to transgender discussions online.
Clinicians railroaded her into taking puberty blockers and then hormones and finally surgery, she says.
'They kind of watered it down,' she said of the doctors who explained to her the impending double mastectomy. 'They simplified it a little bit, just to make it a little more digestible for my 15-year-old brain.'
Rejecting claims that trans surgeries on children are rare, Cole said 'it happens all the time'. She warned of ever-more adolescents with a range of problems ending up on a bandwagon of gender-affirming care that oftentimes does not help them.
Many of those who feel a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity — a condition known as gender dysphoria — have other problems that need to be addressed, including autism spectrum disorders, she added.
'Everybody my age, I know, who's transitioning, or is dysphoric, they're either on the spectrum, or they have some other learning disorder, or they have depression or social anxiety, or they have a history of abuse or sexual assault, neglect, or issues with their family,' said Cole.
Cole is unsure whether the testosterone treatment she underwent affected her ability to have children. She has had to wear bandages because her body is rejecting the skin grafts on her chest.
She urged the audience to take transgender ideology more seriously, saying her breast surgery scars and her slimmer chances of being able to have a child should ring alarm bells about the perils.
Cole has 'detransitioned' back to being female and now campaigns against trans ideology. Breast removal and other procedures are 'like Nazi-era experiments,' she says.
Cole and her lawyer Harmeet Dhillon last year announced they were bringing a medical malpractice suit against the clinicians who signed off on her breast removal surgery
'Conservatives have mostly just been ridiculing the movement… just brushing it off as crazy,' Cole told the right-leaning think tank.
'But it's not, and it's really captured vulnerable children, parents and young people and even entire institutions. And we've really let it go unchecked.'
Cole started suffering from gender dysphoria aged nine and spoke to a pediatrician about it when she was 12.
She says she was coerced into a gender transition operation and between the ages 13 and 17 took puberty blockers, hormones and had a double mastectomy.
In her lawsuit, she says doctors told her gender dysphoria would never go away and that she was at high risk of
