Detransitioner’s heartbreaking story exposes the dark side of ‘gender-affirming care’



It isn’t enough for conservatives to push back against the liberal-spawned transgender movement that’s urging vulnerable children to take artificial hormones and undergo irreversible surgeries that mutilate their healthy bodies. We need people who have experienced the horrors of trans mania firsthand to speak out.

Thankfully, some detransitioners are doing just that. One of them is Chloe Cole, an activist in California who’s sharing her experience “transitioning” genders starting when she was just 12 years old to warn gender-confused minors against the pitfalls of the trans movement.

On an episode of “Back to the People,” BlazeTV host Nicole Shanahan sat down with Chloe to hear her heartbreaking yet hopeful story.

Chloe was 12 years old when she was introduced to the transgender community on social media. She started following the accounts of many young trans people because she felt a connection to them.

“They reminded me so much of myself in so many different ways. A lot of these people were artistic; they were creative; they had a unique fashion sense; they were very individual; they wanted to set themselves apart from the other people,” she says.

Their struggle with being bullied for being tomboys or effeminate boys resonated deeply with Chloe, who was also being bullied in school. On social media, she witnessed their “sense of happiness and wholeness” as they created new identities by cutting their hair short, wearing clothes of the opposite gender, and adopting new names and pronouns.

Tragically, many of these kids found that their new identity was more accepted than their genuine one. This often led them to pursue surgeries and hormonal therapy.

And Chloe was no exception. She was put on the drug Lupron, which was originally used for reproductive cancers, hormonal disorders, and chemical castration for sex offenders.

However, “a lot of facilities have stopped using this drug to castrate those sex offenders because it's been deemed too cruel for use in that population,” says Chloe, pointing out the irony that it’s now marketed toward “perfectly healthy children.”

Convinced that she was truly a male, Chloe was put on testosterone and eventually had an elective double mastectomy at age 15. Her breasts weren’t just removed; they were intentionally reshaped to appear more masculine. All of this, she explains, was covered by insurance because California mandates that insurers cover all “gender-affirming care.”

Just a year later, though, when Chloe was 16, she began her detransitioning journey when she realized that she wanted to be a mother someday. She remains grateful that she didn’t pursue further surgeries that would have stolen that opportunity from her.

Today, Chloe is using her story and her voice to speak out about the dangers of transgenderism, offering hope to confused minors who feel stuck in the wrong body.

To hear Chloe and Nicole dive into the darkest parts of the transgender movement, including the horrendous grooming and predation trans-identifying kids are subjected to, watch the interview above.

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SHOCKING: Glenn Beck interviews 'detransitioner' deceived by doctors



Detransitioner Claire Abernathy was just 14 years old when doctors told her parents she’d take her own life without hormones and surgery — and promised “gender care” would save her life.

“I started identifying as trans when I was 12 years old following a sexual assault and some pretty severe bullying that I was experiencing at school,” Abernathy tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

“Adopting this identity gave me, well, one, it gave me the ability to pretend to be a new person, someone that this didn’t happen to. And it also gave me an entire social network, a whole friend group of other kids who felt similarly to the way I did,” she explains.

That’s when Abernathy began going to therapists who were recommended by others with the same issues.


“They made my parents feel like abusers for being skeptical, for wanting to take pause before making irreparable changes to their child’s body,” she tells Glenn.

“Did anyone say, did any doctor say, ‘Hang on, we should look at the abuse’?” Glenn asks.

“No one. My mom asked about the abuse, the bullying, all these things that I’d gone through, disordered eating, and she was told in no uncertain terms, ‘No, that does not make a child think that they’re trans,’” Abernathy explains, noting that this occurred at “one of the most well-funded children’s hospitals in the nation.”

Abernathy was then put on testosterone at 14 years old, and then shortly after they were discussing surgery.

“I started testosterone in November of 2018, and by January, I was approved for surgery. It didn’t happen until June, but that was just because we wanted to wait until the summer between my eighth and ninth grade years,” she says.

Doctors told Abernathy and her parents that the only effective treatment for her “gender dysphoria” was “chemical and surgical intervention” and that if she did not go through with it, “the most likely outcome was suicide.”

“They didn’t tell me that it would permanently take away my ability to breastfeed. They didn’t tell me that the majority of kids who look to pursue this end up growing out of it,” she says. “There was a lot of things that I wasn’t told.”

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The chemical castration agent for sex offenders being used on children



Detransitioner Chloe Cole was just a child when she first stumbled on transgender individuals on social media — and it completely altered the course of her life.

“I was about 12 years old when I first started encountering the transgender community, just like in the wild on social media,” Cole tells BlazeTV host Nicole Shanahan on “Back to the People.” “They reminded me so much of myself in so many different ways.”

These individuals, Cole says, were artistic, creative, and were often called tomboys or effeminate boys growing up.

“They seemed to find this sense of happiness and wholeness. And they seemed to shine even brighter as they talked about discovering their identity and finding affirmation and cutting their hair short and dressing more like the opposite sex,” she explains.


“And eventually many of them went on to undergo different medical procedures like the hormones or the surgeries,” she continues, admitting that she herself had gone on a drug called Lupron, which is often used as a cancer drug.

It’s also been used as a chemical castration agent for sex offenders.

“A lot of facilities have stopped using this drug to castrate these sex offenders because its been deemed too cruel for use in that population, which is very interesting because we’re using it on perfectly healthy children, like me,” Cole says.

Cole then went on testosterone, and at only 15 years old, she had an elective double mastectomy to surgically remove her breasts.

“And this was not just any cancer-related mastectomy. It’s a modified version of that which is even more invasive. It removes different parts of the tissue, and they don’t care as much about reducing scarring. So you often see patients who have big, massive scars,” she tells Shanahan.

Cole explains she was so certain that she was a male because of the theory of “brains being sexed.”

“There was this idea at the time, while I was in the community, that there is a biological basis to being transgender. And some people have brain patterns that are more like the opposite sex. This has been disproven since,” Cole says.

Once she believed that she was biologically a man, she became convinced that the discomfort she felt in her growing body had nothing to do with puberty and everything to do with being a man in a woman’s body.

“That is so awful that they were telling young people that their brains were in the wrong body,” Shanahan says, shocked. “That just is such a slap in the face for every hardheaded, stubborn, hardworking, competitive woman.”

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‘I was a tomboy’: Detransitioner addresses the REAL causes of gender dysphoria



Chloe Cole is a young woman who fell deep enough into radical gender ideology in her teens to begin the process of transitioning to the opposite sex. Thankfully, before too much damage was done, she realized the error she’d made.

Now, she advocates for others who have gone through what she has as well as those who are yet to make the same life-changing decision in the hopes that they don’t go down the same path.

“This is going to have to go beyond just an overall ban for the use of puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones or cross-sex surgeries in the use of children. We need to address those of us who have already been hurt by these procedures,” Cole tells Tom McGrath of “Blaze News Tonight.”

“I want to force insurance coverage for those of us who have been hurt and need treatment for the complications or for reversal of these treatments by the doctors who perform these in the first place, because in a lot of states they’re completely covering transition treatments,” she continues, “but they’re just completely ignoring those of us who have health issues from these procedures.”


“I want to get more of your personal take because we’ve seen a lot of countries with socialized medicine outlaw transgender surgery because there’s no profit for it, and we know that there is one here in the United States, but I want to know what really incentivizes a parent to go ahead and pick these surgeries for the kids?” McGrath asks.

“Most parents who are dealing with this with their children don’t actually want to have these procedures for their children in the first place, and they will push back because they know that their child is not actually transgender,” Cole answers.

“But they’re being told by these doctors, they’re being manipulated into thinking and believing that their kid is going to die without this. It’s a common tactic for these doctors and for these counselors to talk about the high suicide statistics within the transgender community,” she continues.

Cole notes that these doctors “falsely attribute it to either a lack of mentalization or a lack of social acceptance.”

Now that Cole is able to look back on her own struggle with gender dysphoria, she’s been able to understand where it began and how that made her a prime target for the LGBTQ agenda in the medical system.

“In the past, we used to follow a model for these children that was like more of a wait-and-see approach, where we would not affirm the identity, and we just wouldn’t interfere at all, and just allow the child to grow up, and most kids naturally would desist by the time they entered adulthood and finished puberty,” she explains.

“We’re not allowing these children the opportunity to just grow up anymore, like a tomboy, let’s say. Like, let’s say a girl who likes to wear her brother’s clothes and play sports,” she continues. “I was definitely a tomboy, and in some sense, I never really grew out of it.”

“But that doesn’t make me a young man. What makes me a woman is the way that God determined my biology at conception, and no surgery, no drug is ever going to change this,” she adds.

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Inside job? 9/11 victim's brother DOES NOT BELIEVE official s​tory



September 11, 2001, was a tragic day for all Americans — and thousands lost their lives.

However, that doesn’t mean the official story can’t be questioned. And in honor of the victims, it should be scrutinized heavily.

“We live in a fake matrix of lies, and one of those lies is that 19 hijackers were able to defeat the strongest military force in the entire world and bring down three buildings with two airplanes. The story doesn’t make sense,” Alex Stein says, before listening to Matt Campbell’s story.

Campbell, whose brother tragically died in the attack on the Twin Towers, tells Stein that he also believes we haven’t been told the truth about what happened.

“My brother was 31, he worked for Reuters,” Campbell tells Stein, noting that his brother was attending a conference and wasn’t usually in the building. “It’s just one of those things, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Campbell started questioning what happened as soon as the war in Afghanistan began — and especially when he learned that 15 of the 19 alleged hijackers were Saudi, mainly trained in the United States.

“It was a slow process, but I mean, initially, you know, for me, it was looking at intelligence failures and just the backstory to all the hijackers,” he says.

Now, Campbell is attempting to take the government to court.

“Almost all attempts at litigation around the subject of 9/11 have either failed or they’ve been settled because someone pleaded guilty,” Campbell explains.

“For me in terms of waking people up or trying to get the truth out there, for me, it’s always been to try and go down this legal route,” he tells Stein, though admits it hasn’t been easy. “It’s not easy to be constantly thinking and talking about someone’s death and their murder, and you know, in this case, the cover up.”

Campbell is also attempting to get his brother’s inquest reopened.

The inquest is held in a coroner’s court where they’re supposed to do a thorough investigation of the cause of death.

“They did absolutely no investigation, no inquiry into how my brother died, which they have to by law,” Campbell explains. “They didn’t have any evidence of the use of explosives.”

“It wasn’t placed in front of the coroner,” he adds, noting that while they’ve petitioned the attorney general twice — they’ve been denied. “We actually threatened litigation with them last year, and their case was so weak, they capitulated, withdrew that first denial.”

“It makes you sort of wonder, what are they scared of,” he adds.

“You know what they’re hiding. They don’t want to touch 9/11 because they know it is an international event and it's just going to cause more problems exposing the truth, and that’s why I appreciate you continuing to fight,” Stein says.


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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:
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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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