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President Biden recently expressed support for “gender
affirming” medical treatment for transgender minors, which
pressures medical professionals to affirm and not question a
child’s gender identity. But 18-year-old Chloe Cole, who was
born female and transitioned to male as a young teen before
“detransitioning,” thinks Biden’s stance could lead more young
people down the road toward irreversible medical treatments.
“What Biden was saying is dangerous,” Cole warned. “He’s trying
to advocate for further experimentation on children.”
The California teen, who began identifying as a boy at age 12,
started puberty blockers and testosterone treatment at 13, and
had an elective double mastectomy at 15 to masculinize her
chest. By 16, she regretted the surgeries, which she says were
spurred by insecurities about her appearance and the influence
of social media rather than gender dysphoria. She blames medical
professionals for failing to question or prevent her rapid
transition.
“I was failed by the system. I literally lost organs,” she told
The Post in a previous interview.
During a panel discussion at the White House on Friday, Biden
spoke with six progressive activists championing issues from gun
control to abortion access. Among them was transgender TikTok
star Dylan Mulvaney, who asked the president whether states
should be able to regulate medical treatment — like hormone
replacement therapy and gender-affirming surgery — for minors
with gender dysphoria.
“Sometimes they try to block you from being able to access
certain medicines, being able to access certain procedures and
so on,” the president said. “I don’t think any state or anybody
should have the right to do that. As a moral question and as a
legal question, I just think it’s wrong.”
Biden’s position, though popular with progressives, is at odds
with much of the Western world, where the unquestioning medical
treatment of transgender minors is becoming increasingly
unpopular. Recently, countries across Europe, including the
United Kingdom, France and Sweden, pumped the brakes on
providing trans kids with irreversible medical interventions.
Four US states, including Texas, Alabama, Arkansas and Arizona,
have enacted laws preventing gender-affirming care, though they
are currently blocked by court rulings. Cole, meanwhile, is
campaigning for a Florida rule that will block Medicaid funds
from paying for medical interventions in cases like hers.
Cole thinks Biden’s decision to break with this growing
consensus is politically motivated. “I seriously doubt he
actually believes in it,” she told The Post. “He’s an elderly
man and his stances on things have been very inconsistent over
the years.”
Cole said she was also “disappointed” to see Biden sit down with
Mulvaney, whose TikTok videos have caused controversy for
promoting outdated stereotypes about women. The 25-year-old has
documented her gender transition in the app with daily updates
on her “girlhood.”
In her first video documenting her transition in March, for
instance, Mulvaney professed: “Day one of being a girl, and I
have already cried three times, I wrote a scathing email that I
did not send, I ordered dresses online that I couldn’t afford,
and then when someone asked me how I was, I said, ‘I’m fine’ but
I wasn’t fine. How’d I do, ladies, good? Girl power!”
Former Olympic athlete Caitlyn Jenner, who herself transitioned
in 2015, slammed Mulvaney for her comments, tweeting this week:
“Let’s not ‘normalize’ any of what this person is doing. This is
absurdity!”
“As a teenage girl I find it very insulting that [Dylan is]
basically trying to pick and choose parts of the female
experience in almost a sexualized manner,” Cole added.
Since being profiled in The Post this June, Cole has become
famous for her activism fighting against the medicalization of
transgender children. She recently spoke at the End Child
Mutilation Rally in Nashville and testified against legislation
that would make California a sanctuary state for kids from other
states seeking medical transition.
But the scars of the procedures she underwent as a young teen
still haven’t healed — and continue to haunt her. Three years
later, Cole said, she experiences debilitating side effects from
her double mastectomy. She said she has to wear bandages at all
times because her body is rejecting the skin grafts performed
during the procedure, and she still doesn’t know whether her
eggs or long-term fertility were compromised by the testosterone
treatment she took from age 13 to 16.
Although she said she was cheered on by medical professionals in
her transition process, she now feels totally alone as she
detransitions.
“I haven’t really had support in my detransition at all,” Cole
said. “I had to basically figure out everything myself, starting
with whether I’d have to go on supplemental hormones or whether
breast reconstruction would be covered by insurance.”
To help others in similar circumstances, Cole has launched
Detrans United, a support group for transgender youths who have
reversed course.
Cole said she hopes to help others like herself, who need
detransitioner role models. “While I was in the process of
detransitioning … just seeing other women who were further along
in the process and knowing that I had a lot of progress to make
and a lot of healing to do from there really helped me look
forward to the future,” she said.
Detrans United is also advocating for policy changes that would
make insurance companies — which in many states like California
and New York often cover transgender transitions — also cover
detransition surgeries and hormone treatment for those who
decide to return to their birth gender.
Although medical insurance helped Cole obtain both hormone
treatment and chest masculinization surgery, she said she won’t
get an insurance break on any medical procedures she might seek
to help her detransition.
“Any treatment that I get, it’s likely I’ll have to pay out of
pocket for it,” she said. “These surgeries are experimental at
best. If they’re performed on a patient and the experiment
fails, the insurance companies should have to pay for the
consequences.”
Even though she faces an uphill battle that goes all the way to
the White House, Cole sees a light at the end of the tunnel.
“This whole process of transitioning kids while they’re still
developing … people are going to wake up and realize that it’s
wrong, and it’s happening all over, and it needs to stop,” she
said. “I really think it’s inevitable.”
https://nypost.com/2022/10/27/detransitioned-teen-bashes-biden- on-gender-affirming-care/
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