{"id":1985592,"date":"2023-07-28T22:17:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T02:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-detransitioners-desperate-plea-to-congress-enough-children-already-victimized-by-this-barbaric-pseudoscience\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T22:18:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T02:18:06","slug":"watch-detransitioners-desperate-plea-to-congress-enough-children-already-victimized-by-this-barbaric-pseudoscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-detransitioners-desperate-plea-to-congress-enough-children-already-victimized-by-this-barbaric-pseudoscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Detransitioner&#8217;s Urgent Plea to Congress: &#8216;Stop Hurting More Children with This Cruel Pseudoscience&#8217;"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fwatch-detransitioners-desperate-plea-to-congress-enough-children-already-victimized-by-this-barbaric-pseudoscience%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=1985592&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--><h2>The Devastating\u2064 Impact of the Transgender Craze: A Desperate Plea \u2064to Congress<\/h2>\n<p>The ability of\u2062 the transgender craze to destroy a life was laid before Congress\u200d Thursday as 19-year-old Chloe Cole told \u2063the story of her transitioning nightmare.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2063 used to believe \u2062that\u2062 I was born in the wrong body and the adults in my life, whom \u2064I trusted, affirmed my belief and this caused me lifelong, \u2064irreversible\u200d harm,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI speak to you today as a victim of one of the biggest medical scandals in\u200c the history of the \u2064United States of America. I speak to you in the hope \u2064that you\u200d will \u200dhave\u2062 the courage to bring the scandal \u2062to an end, and ensure that other \u2064vulnerable teenagers, children and young adults \u2064don\u2019t go through what I went through,\u201d she \u2062said during a\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OzkQlhGC6Vg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House \u2063hearing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy childhood was ruined,\u201d she said,\u2062 adding, \u201cThis needs to \u2062stop. You alone can\u2063 stop it.\u200b Enough \u2062children have \u200balready been victimized by\u2062 this barbaric\u200b pseudoscience. Please let me be your \u200bfinal warning,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\">\n<\/div>\n<h3>A\u2064 Tragic Journey<\/h3>\n<p>She said that at age the \u200dage of 12, unsure about the \u2062changes taking place as she underwent puberty, she told her parents she was transgender. \u200bThey\u200b sought the help of\u2063 experts, she said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBut this proved to be a mistake. It\u200c immediately set our entire \u200cfamily down \u2062a path of ideologically motivated deceit and coercion.\u2064 The gender specialist\u200c I was taken to see told my parents that \u200cI need\u200d to\u200b be put on puberty-blocking drugs right away,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey asked my parents a simple question: Would you rather have a dead daughter or a living transgender son?\u201d\u200c she said, adding that her family \u201call became\u200c victims of so<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-johnson-pushes-federal-ban-on-child-transgender-surgeries-to-stop-unspeakable-harms\/\" title=\"Mike Johnson advocates for a federal ban on child transgender surgeries to prevent significant harm.\">-called gender-affirming\u2064 care<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She said the testosterone injections she\u2063 started \u200dgetting at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/man-swinging-stick-transgender-flag-moms-liberty-event-brought-ground-lone-cops-quick-move-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">13<\/a> \u201ccaused permanent changes in my body, my voice will forever be deeper, my jawline sharper, my \u200dnose longer, my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-detransitioners-desperate-plea-to-congress-enough-children-already-victimized-by-this-barbaric-pseudoscience\/\" title=\"Watch: Detransitioner's Urgent Plea to Congress: 'Stop Hurting More Children with This Cruel Pseudoscience'\">bone structure permanently masculinized<\/a>, \u200bmy Adam\u2019s apple more prominent, my\u2063 fertility unknown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look in the mirror\u2062 sometimes,\u2064 and\u2062 I feel like a monster. I had\u2062 a double \u200bmastectomy at\u200c 15. They tested my amputated breasts for cancer. That was cancer-free, of course, I was perfectly healthy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter\u200c my \u2063breasts were taken away from me, \u2063the tissue was incinerated. Before I\u2062 was \u200cable to legally drive, I had a\u2063 huge part of my future \u2062womanhood taken from me,\u201d \u2064she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said she struggles with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/conservative-senators-push-restrict-transgenders-military-service-drag-shows-bases-lgbt-activist-fuming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what was\u200b done<\/a> to her body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will never\u2064 be able to breastfeed. I struggle to look \u200cat myself in the mirror at times. I still struggle to \u200bthis\u2063 day\u2062 with sexual dysfunction. And I have massive scars across my chest and\u200d the skin grafts that they \u200dused, that they\u200b took off my nipples, are weeping fluid \u200ctoday, and\u2064 they\u2019re grafted into \u2063a more masculine positioning, they said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter surgery, \u200cmy grades in school plummeted. Everything that I\u200b went through did nothing to address the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-demonic-religious-mothers-mourn-how-trans-movement-is-devouring-sons-find-solace-in-secret-online-group\/\" title=\"\u2018It\u2019s Demonic\u2019: Religious Mothers Mourn How Trans Movement Is \u2018Devouring\u2019 Sons, Find Solace In Secret Online Group\">underlying mental health issues<\/a> that I had, and my doctors with their theories on gender thought that all my problems would go away as soon\u2062 as I was surgically transformed into \u200dsomething that vaguely resembled a \u2063boy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir theories were wrong.\u200c The drugs and surgeries changed \u200bmy body,\u2062 but \u200dthey did not and could not change the basic\u2064 reality that I am, \u2063and forever\u200c will be, a female.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen\u2062 my specialists first \u2063told my parents they could have \u2063a dead daughter or a\u2063 live transgender son, I wasn\u2019t suicidal. I was a happy child who struggled \u2063because she was different. However at\u200d 16, after my surgery, I did become suicidal,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<h3>A Call for Change<\/h3>\n<p>Her conclusion?\u200d \u201cWe need to \u200cstop \u2062telling 12-year-olds that they were born wrong,\u2064 that they are right to reject their own bodies and feel uncomfortable with \u200ctheir own skin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe \u200cneed\u2064 to stop telling children that puberty is an option, that they\u2064 can choose what kind of puberty they will go through, just like they can choose what clothes to wear or what music to listen \u200dto. \u00a0Puberty is a rite of passage to adulthood, not a\u2062 disease to \u200cbe\u2064 mitigated,\u201d \u2063she\u2064 said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/detransitioner-issues-desperate-plea-lawmakers-emotional-gender-hearing-childhood-ruined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> noted that Cole later responded to comments from Myriam Reynolds, a mother who \u2062supported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/transgender-runner-18-years-older-female-competitors-awarded-medal-finish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gender transitions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI understood that\u2062 Mrs. Reynolds is\u200d scared for her child. And I just want to set the record straight \u2063that I don\u2019t hate her, I don\u2019t think anybody \u200bin this room hates \u2062her. \u200cIn fact, \u200bI see my own\u200d mother and my own father in her,\u201d Cole said\u2063 as she began \u2063to cry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that \u2062clearly,\u200b she really loves her child, and she\u2019s been doing the best with what she\u2019s been given. And unfortunately, it\u2019s \u200dnot much. And for that, I\u2019m sorry. I mean I think every parent\u200d deserves the utmost grace and guidance with how to help their \u2064child,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat being said, I \u200ddon\u2019t wish for \u200ca child to have [the] same result as I did. I\u2062 don\u2019t wish for anybody to regret transition and \u200dde-transition, because it\u2019s incredibly difficult.\u2062 It comes with its own difficulties, \u2063and it\u2019s not easy. \u200dAnd I hope that her child gets to have a happy and fulfilling adulthood,\u201d she\u2062 said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As noted by the\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/27\/detransitioner-tells-congress-her-childhood-was-ruined-by-gender-reassignment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>, Cole\u2019s testimony is counter to the Biden administration\u2019s push for what\u2062 it calls gender-affirming care.<\/p>\n<p>Transgender and Assistant Secretary of Health <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-administration-releases-pro-transgender-propaganda-piece-rachel-levine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel Levine<\/a> has claimed that there \u201cis no \u200cargument among medical professionals \u2026 about the value and the importance\u201d of\u2064 the procedures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdolescence is hard and puberty is hard,\u201d Levine said this month. \u201cWhat if you\u2019re \u200bgoing through the\u2062 wrong puberty?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-detransitioners-desperate-plea-congress-enough-children-already-victimized-barbaric-pseudoscience\/\">Watch: Detransitioner&#8217;s Desperate Plea to Congress: &#8216;Enough Children Already Victimized by This Barbaric Pseudoscience&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transgender craze&#8217;s destructive impact on lives was highlighted in Congress by Chloe Cole, 19, who shared her transitioning nightmare. 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