{"id":1775426,"date":"2022-12-14T17:32:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T22:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1775426"},"modified":"2022-12-14T17:33:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T22:33:02","slug":"congressional-hearing-witness-says-she-has-personally-never-heard-of-a-detransitioner-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressional-hearing-witness-says-she-has-personally-never-heard-of-a-detransitioner-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Hearing Witness Says She Has Personally \u2018Never Heard\u2019 Of A Detransitioner Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongressional-hearing-witness-says-she-has-personally-never-heard-of-a-detransitioner-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1775426&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">A witness at a congressional hearing regarding violence against \u201cLGBTQI+\u201d people on Wednesday claimed she had personally never heard of someone who seeks to de-transition after starting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transgender<\/a> treatments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A House of Representatives oversight <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/following-club-q-mass-shooting-oversight-committee-to-hear-from-survivors-at\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">committee<\/a> held a hearing Wednesday on \u201cAnti-LGBTQI+ Violence and Extremism\u201d in which survivors of the nightclub shooting in Colorado Springs, along with others, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/out-politics-and-policy\/club-q-survivors-blame-hateful-rhetoric-colorado-springs-shooting-rcna61720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provided<\/a> witness accounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">One of the witnesses was Dr. Jessie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KjD5dBrNkEM&#038;ab_channel=GLAAD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pocock<\/a>, who is the CEO and executive director of <a href=\"https:\/\/insideoutys.org\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside Out Youth Services Advocacy Organization<\/a>. Republican Representative Michael Cloud of Texas questioned Pocock about de-transitioners, who are people who have begun some stage of treatment to alter their gender \u2014 either by taking hormones or going through various surgeries \u2014 but have changed their minds. Many de-transitioners use their experiences to speak out against transgender treatment on minors who are at times not told about alternatives. Families are also often <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/gender\/commentary\/transgender-ideology-hurts-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">informed<\/a> that giving their children transition medication is the only way to keep them from committing suicide, leaving them with a devastating choice to make.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A witness in the House hearing on &#8220;anti-LGBT violence&#8221; is asked about de-transitioners:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never heard of a case of anyone de-transitioning so I honestly don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a real thing.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G2ujamy9AF\">pic.twitter.com\/G2ujamy9AF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1603083662698110976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Representative Cloud <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1603083662698110976?s=46&#038;t=vf1cz2ooobFa6reIi3wkaA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked<\/a>, \u201cA lot of people in the news coming out, de-transitioning, can you speak to that phenomenon?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhat\u2019s that person going through? Did they get it wrong, were they going through a period, is it just a fluid thing? I mean, could you speak to that?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI can\u2019t really speak to an individual\u2019s personal experience. You know, somebody\u2019s gender is just a really personal experience, but I can speak to you \u2014 I\u2019ve been in this work for a long time,\u201d Pocock said. \u201cI know a lot of trans folks, close friends, family members, and I\u2019ve just never heard a case of anyone de-transitioning so I honestly don\u2019t think it\u2019s a real [issue].\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Cloud pointed out there are currently several stories in the news of such de-transitioning taking place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe concern [that] parents have,\u201d he said, \u201cis, you know, we\u2019ve all had awkward teen years where we\u2019ve questioned things and existence, and a lot of things, and the question is \u2026 kids who are maybe making a permanent decision even without the input of their parents and making irreversible decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThere\u2019s some who\u2019ve talked about [how] they can\u2019t have kids anymore and they wish they could \u2026 I\u2019m curious how we would work to protect kids,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">De-transitioners have been making their voices heard across the country in recent months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Helena Kerschner is a de-transitioner from Ohio who started experiencing gender dysphoria when she was 14 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI was going through a period where I was just really isolated at school, so I turned to the Internet,\u201d she said, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/18\/detransitioned-teens-explain-why-they-regret-changing-genders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>. She had lost friends in school, but discovered an accepting group of people on the internet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMy dysphoria was definitely triggered by this online community. I never thought about my gender or had a problem with being a girl before going on Tumblr,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe community was very social justice-y. There was a lot of negativity around being a cis, heterosexual, white girl, and I took those messages really, really personally,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Chloe Cole, a prominent de-transitioner who has used her experience to speak publicly about the risks of minors going through transgender treatment, tweeted in response to the video of Cloud and Pocock\u2019s exchange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cDetransitioners are pretty used to being told that they don\u2019t exist. I don\u2019t mind coming to DC to clear up any confusion lol,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Detransitioners are pretty used to being told that they don\u2019t exist. I don\u2019t mind coming to DC to clear up any confusion lol<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chloe Cole \u2b50\ufe0f (@ChoooCole) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChoooCole\/status\/1603089844695355392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Cole will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/detransitioner-chloe-cole-announces-intent-to-sue-kaiser-permanente-for-experimental-hormones-and-surgery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suing<\/a> Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals over the \u201cexperimental\u201d and \u201coff-label use\u201d of the transgender treatment with which she was presented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Chris Beck, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-navy-seal-who-detransitioned-warns-trans-movement-has-morphed-into-a-dangerous-ideology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retired<\/a> U.S. Navy Seal who became Kristin Beck ten years ago after famously becoming transgender, has also started speaking out against the ideology behind transgenderism.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ryan Saavedra and Christina Buttons contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A witness at a congressional hearing regarding violence against \u201cLGBTQI+\u201d people on Wednesday claimed she had personally never heard of someone who seeks to de-transition after starting transgender treatments. A House of Representatives oversight committee held a hearing Wednesday on \u201cAnti-LGBTQI+ Violence and Extremism\u201d in which survivors of the nightclub shooting in Colorado Springs, along &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":1775429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4490,6202,9101,9102,3679,4220,9100,6195,6993],"class_list":["post-1775426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-congressional","tag-daily","tag-detransitioner","tag-heard","tag-hearing","tag-never","tag-personally","tag-wire","tag-witness"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1775429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}