De-transitioner warns shareholders that Disney will pay a price for 'stealing the voices of thousands of little Ariels'



A victim of so-called "gender-affirming care" informed Disney shareholders Wednesday that the company may soon face lawsuits over its support of employees' genital mutilations. Chloe Cole, a woman left permanently scarred by gender ideology, further stressed the importance of the company looking into providing benefits for those who seek to "detransition."

The woke company

The Walt Disney Company has worked hard to earn the admiration of LGBT radicals, securing for itself a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Corporate Equality Index since 2007.

The corporate behemoth has signaled its ideological compliance in various ways.

Besides throwing around its weight in an effort to dissuade lawmakers from executing the will of voters and upholding parental rights, Disney also covers travels expenses for its employees to kill their unborn children. For those children ultimately permitted to live, Disney offers "gender affirmation benefits."

Accordingly, Disney helps employees, their spouses, and their children get sex-change mutilations, elective mastectomies, and ruinous hormone therapies.

The company does so even though:

  • the so-called experts at the World Professional Association for Transgender Health — the organization that wrote the go-to guide on "gender-affirming care" — have been outed admitting in private both that children cannot provide informed consent and sex-change surgeries can have nightmarish consequences;
  • England's National Health Service has highlighted there is little to no evidence showing an upside to the use of puberty blockers in minors;
  • Finland's leading child psychiatrist Riittakerttu Kaltiala has underscored that most kids will grow out of the delusion that their gender and sex are misaligned; and
  • the core claim used by gender ideologues to justify sex-change mutilations has been utterly debunked.

The scarred patient

Chloe Cole, 19, knows firsthand just how devastating the treatments that Disney's employee benefits cover can be.

Cole told the Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine Joint Rules/Legislative Committee in 2022, "At 13, I started taking puberty blockers and testosterone. At 15, I underwent a double mastectomy in which my breasts were removed and my nipples were grafted. And yet, at 16, after years of medically transitioning, I came to realize I severely regretted my transition."

"I want to be a mother someday, and yet I can never naturally feed ... my future children. My breasts were beautiful and now they have been incinerated for nothing. Thank you, modern medicine," said Cole.

The gender ideology victim, who noted at the time that her chest remained scarred and her nipples continued to bleed, has become a patient advocate for Do No Harm. DNH represents medical professionals, patients, and policymakers keen on ridding the medical establishment of identity politics and gender ideology.

In addition to raising awareness about the fallout of "gender-affirming care," Cole has also taken legal action against Kaiser Permanente, accusing the institution and her former doctors of performing experimental and mutilating treatment.

The shareholder meeting

Cole called into Disney's annual shareholders meeting Wednesday, underscoring the consequence of the procedures they cover and the possibility there may be legal consequences on the horizon.

"Disney pays for gender transition interventions, but not de-transitioning care. Therefore, the Company discriminates based on gender identity under EEOC regulations," said Cole. "I speak from personal experience as someone who was deceived and physically harmed at a young age by gender ideology, validated by the medical industry, and pushed to the masses by corporations like Disney."

Cole detailed how, as a minor, she was given irreversible puberty blockers and a double mastectomy.

"My body has been irreversibly damaged, and years later, my chest is still in bandages," continued Cole. "My doctors have abandoned me. Now doctors look and shrug."

Cole further noted that she has filed suit against "those professionals who steered me into taking these destructive steps that have permanently scarred me."

"But Disney, in its arrogance, has responded to our proposal by stating that I am only trying to 'generate attention' for a 'limited agenda.' Mr. Iger, Disney under your watch is pushing the 'limited agenda' of gender ideology," continued Cole. "Disney has become the Ursula that is stealing the voices of thousands of little Ariels across the world by telling us we can be something that we can never become."

"The lawsuits are coming, sir. It’s only a matter of time before current or past employees, whose bodies and lives have been irreversibly harmed, will show up at your door looking for justice and restitution," added Cole.

Just got off the phone from the @Disney annual shareholders meeting.\n\nI needed to call out Bob Iger and the rest of the board\u2019s hypocrisy and the dangerous lies they feed to us through the media. \n\nHere is what I said:
— (@)

The proposal

Cole concluded her call by requesting that shareholders consider the "Gender-Based Compensation Gaps and Associated Risks" proposal presented by the National Legal and Policy Center.

The proposal asks that Disney investigate its benefits policies to determine whether they are discriminatory against de-transitioners.

It specifically requests that the board of directors issue a report by Dec. 31 "about compensation and health benefit gaps, which should include how they address dysphoria and de-transitioning care across gender classifications, including associated reputational, competitive, operational and litigative risks, and risks related to recruiting and retaining diverse talent."

The NLPC indicated that the company's board of directors has opposed the proposal because it "intended to serve the particular interest of the proponent."

The board unsuccessfully sought permission from the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this year to exclude the proposal from consideration at the annual meeting.

The NLPC noted in its response, filed with the SEC, that "besides the inherent discriminatory infrastructure established by Disney within its compensation policies and programs, the Company has opened the door wide to reputational and legal risk due to gender ideology and the affirmation of sex transitioning medical coverage. The de-transitioners' litigiousness may be at a trickle now, but the diversity-obsessed Company should prepare for an eventual flood of lawsuits from angry, mutilated current and former employees."

While Cole was able to put the proposal before the shareholders, the Huffington Post indicated they ultimately rejected it.

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Leftists apoplectic as Utah bans 'gender-affirming' care for minors



Gov. Spencer Cox (R-Utah) signed legislation Saturday banning "gender-affirming" health care for minors, making Utah the first state in 2023 to do so.

"Legislation that impacts our most vulnerable youth requires careful consideration and deliberation. ... More and more experts, states and countries around the world are pausing these permanent and life-altering treatments for new patients until more and better research can help determine the long-term consequences," Cox tweeted Saturday.

"We sincerely hope that we can treat our transgender families with more love and respect as we work to better understand the science and consequences behind these procedures," Cox added.

\u201cToday we signed SB 16, Transgender Medical Treatment and Procedures.\u201d
— Utah Gov. Spencer J. Cox (@Utah Gov. Spencer J. Cox) 1674927827

The newly signed legislation, S.B. 16, will become effective on May 3, 2023. It will prospectively prohibit minors with gender dysphoria from being subjected to body-mutilating surgeries and other medical interventions. The bill will "place an indefinite moratorium on their access to puberty blockers and hormone therapy," NBC reported.

"Playing with trucks and rough-housing with friends does not make your daughter a boy. It just makes them unique; it makes them creative. It does not require corrective action in the form of sterilization," 18-year-old Chloe Cole said in her testimony on Utah's related H.B. 132.

California-based Cole, a biological female, describes herself as a "former trans kid" who had puberty blockers at 13 and a double mastectomy at 15. Cole is now de-transitioning.

\u201c\u201cPlaying with trucks and rough-housing with friends does not make your daughter a boy. It just makes them unique, it makes them creative, it does not require corrective action in the form of sterilization.\u201d\n\nMy testimony on Utah\u2019s HB132!\u201d
— Chloe Cole \u2b50\ufe0f (@Chloe Cole \u2b50\ufe0f) 1674670715

Activists in favor of subjecting children to these physiologically and psychologically damaging procedures, some of which involve chemical and/or physical castration, expressed discontent with the decision.

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall offered an apology to Utah's gender-dysphoric youth. "This is wrong and it isn't fair. I'm sorry this is happening to you. You are loved. I stand with you," the 42-year-old Democrat tweeted Friday.

\u201cTo Utah\u2019s transgender kids: This is wrong and it isn\u2019t fair. I\u2019m sorry this is happening to you. You are loved. I stand with you.\u201d
— Mayor Erin Mendenhall (@Mayor Erin Mendenhall) 1674849630

Echoing Mendenhall, Dr. Jack Turban decried Utah legislators' decision, suggesting they had overstepped their bounds by countering assorted health organizations' stance on the matter. The membership of these organizations, notably, stand to benefit financially from the ongoing care children subjected to these procedures will require.

\u201cState politicians in #Utah have decided they know better than The American Medical Association, The American Academy of Pediatrics, The American Psychiatric Association, The Endocrine Society, and The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. #medtwitter #trans\u201d
— Jack Turban MD \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f\ud83e\udde0\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83e\ude7a (@Jack Turban MD \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f\ud83e\udde0\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83e\ude7a) 1674936238

Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, called the bill "brutally unfair" and says it will face a legal challenge. "We are preparing a challenge," Minter told Law Dork, adding that the ACLU of Utah and NCLR will file a lawsuit "as soon as we can."

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'My breasts were beautiful and now they have been incinerated': Florida Board of Medicine hears former transsexuals' regrets, drafts mutilation ban



Mutilated and forever scarred, one woman told members of a medical panel on Friday that if she is still able to have children, she will never be able to breastfeed them. Two years after being mutilated by surgeons whom she claimed were really just "activists" in smocks, Chloe Cole's chest remains bandaged, her nipples bleeding interminably.

Amidst jeers from transsexual activists, Chloe Cole joined other victims of so-called "gender-affirming treatment" in Orlando to tell the Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine Joint Rules/Legislative Committee why children and adolescents should be protected from sterilizing puberty blockers and genital mutilation.

They evidently impressed upon the officials the urgency of taking action, because, according to WKMG, the panel ultimately signed off on a draft rule — favored by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration — that would prohibit doctors from mutilating persons with gender dysphoria under the age of 18.

Victims' testimonies

The medical boards' rule workshop, which took place Friday morning at the Hyatt Regency near the Orlando airport, met to discuss a potential ban on puberty-blockers and genital mutilation for minors. After so-called expert testimonies were given, the floor was opened up to both advocates and critics.

18-year-old Chloe Cole spoke to the horrors of her experience, both transitioning and de-transitioning.

Cole told the board: "At 13, I started taking puberty blockers and testosterone. At 15, I underwent a double mastectomy in which my breasts were removed and my nipples were grafted. And yet, at 16, after years of medically transitioning, I came to realize I severely regretted my transition."

"From a young age I was actually quite a very feminine girl, though I did somewhat model myself after my older brothers," Cole said, suggesting that she began to question her identity after being inundated with "inappropriate content" in "an echo chamber of far-left ideology."

In that echo chamber, Cole indicated the following claims prevailed: "sex and gender are separate, women are inherently victims, men are inherently superior in every way," and children with gender dysphoria need drugs and surgery.

\u201c\u201cMy breasts were beautiful, now they\u2019ve been incinerated for nothing. Thank you, modern medicine.\u201d My public comment at the Florida Board of Medicine meeting in Orlando today.\u201d
— Chloe Cole \u2b50\ufe0f (@Chloe Cole \u2b50\ufe0f) 1666970856

"All of the talk about mental health, self-perception, pronouns and ideology leads me to this question: Why is the mental health epidemic not being addressed with mental health treatment to get at the root causes for why female adolescents like me want to reject their bodies?" asked Cole.

Cole noted that she was not suicidal when she began taking hormones, but doctors nevertheless threatened her parents: "Would you rather have a dead daughter or a living son? ... This is how activists talk."

Cole spelled out the consequence of the doctors' activism: "I want to be a mother someday, and yet I can never naturally feed ... my future children. My breasts were beautiful and now they have been incinerated for nothing. Thank you, modern medicine."

Another female victim, unnamed, explained that after "transitioning," she ceased menstruating and grew facial hair. Although initially "elated," she realized her mental health had not improved as a result of the chemical treatment.

The victim said, "I became more suicidal, more instable. The anxiety became debilitating."

After a suicide attempt, she found religion. Unlike the drugs and chemicals, she said her relationship with Jesus ameliorated her suffering, prompting her to de-transition and accept her "womanhood." She said that after getting off of testosterone, her "mental health improved exponentially."

\u201csurvivor of the transgender movement speaks out...\n\nhttps://t.co/bx5pM6PGAZ\u201d
— Citizen Free Press (@Citizen Free Press) 1666988800

Doctors' testimonies

Six doctors spoke, three of whom spoke in opposition to the draft proposal prohibiting the mutilation of children.

WUSF reported that one of the three doctors opposed to the proposal, Meredithe McNamara, suggested that a "social contagion" is not to blame for the spike in the number of "trans" children and gender clinics.

According to the American Psychological Association, a social contagion is when behaviors, attitudes, and emotions spread like diseases through crowds "and other types of social aggregates," partly as a result of the members' "heightened suggestibility." A social contagion is allegedly sustained by "imitation, conformity, ... and mimicry."

Instead of a social contagion, said McNamara, a Yale School of Medicine professor, the reason is that "we live in a more forgiving and nurturing environment than we did 20 years ago ... there are trans and non-binary role models, people who are trailblazing and showing young people it's safe to be who they are."

Michael Biggs, a professor of sociology and fellow of St Cross College, submitted research to the committee outlining how puberty suppression is suspected to reinforce gender dysphoria. Biggs referenced studies showing that puberty blockers: sterilize children; negatively impact their mental health; lower bone density; and render them incapable of having orgasms later as adults.

Michael Laidlaw, a California-based endocrinologist suggested there is a dearth of "high quality evidence" to substantiate claims about positive outcomes from gender mutilations, and likened attempts to transition to forcing a square peg in a round hole.

Laidlaw, like Biggs, emphasized in the materials he submitted the destructive nature of puberty blockers, noting that in males they not only sterilize and stunt the growth of sexual organs, but also disrupt normal brain development. He indicated that puberty blockers leave girls in a "Menopause like state," similarly disrupting brain development and adversely impacting bone growth.

Blaise Trettis, a public defender, said that minors are not "emotionally or psychologically capable of making that lifelong decision."

Rules and guidance

WKMG reported that the Florida Board of Medicine voted in August to open the rule-making process concerning state guidelines as they pertain to gender dysphoria treatments.

The panel signed off on the draft rule to bar doctors from mutilating or chemically sterilizing kids for the purpose of cosmetically altering their gender. It will go to a vote before the full board on Nov. 4.

As they now stand, the Florida Department of Health's guidelines concerning gender dysphoria are as follows:

  • "Social gender transitions should not be a treatment option for children or adolescents";
  • "Anyone under 18 should not be prescribed puberty blockers or hormone therapy";
  • "Gender reassignment surgery should not be a treatment option for children or adolescents";
  • "Based on currently available evidence, 'encouraging mastectomy, ovariectomy, uterine extirpation, penile disablement, tracheal shave, the prescription of hormones which are out of line with the genetic make-up of the child, or puberty blockers, are all clinical practices which run an unacceptably high risk of doing harm'"; and
  • "Children and adolescents should be provided social support by peers and family and seek counseling from a licensed provider."