Ex Transgender Teen Chole Cole

Chloe Cole was 15 years old when she agreed to let a "gender-affirming" surgeon remove her healthy breasts—a life-altering decision she now deeply regrets.Show more

Her "brutal" transition to male from female was anything but the romanticized "gender journey" that transgender activists and medical professionals had portrayed, she told The Epoch Times. Chloe Cole has described her agonizing issues and how surgery "irreversibly" harmed her body at various legislative sessions with her powerful testimony on behalf of other children facing gender dysphoria.

Chole, now 18, feels more like she's just awoken from "a nightmare," and she's disappointed with the medical and school system that fast-tracked her to gender transition surgery.

"I was convinced that it would make me happy, that it would make me whole as a person," she said.

Although she feels "let down" by most of the adults in her life, she doesn't blame her parents for following the advice of school staff and medical professionals, who "affirmed" her desire for social transitioning, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery.

Chole's powerful testimony with a question and answer session that answers questions about supporting families, her thoughts on supporting children who struggle with gender dysphoria, and steps you can take to protect the children in your community.

Recorded on February 1, 2023, in Caldwell, Idaho
* The cover image is a composite using a picture of Chloe Cole standing near her home in Northern California on August 26, 2022. (Credit: John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)