Chloe Cole, a 19-year-old detransitioner, broke down during House testimony Thursday when she spoke to the mother of a transgender child about the dangers of medical transition procedures.
Cole addressed Myriam Reynolds, another witness on the panel, who is a professional counselor and allowed her child to pursue transgender medical interventions.
“I understood that Mrs. Reynolds is scared for her child and I just want to set the record straight that I don’t hate her, I don’t think anybody in this room hates her,” said Cole, who started medically transitioning at the age of 12. “In fact, I see my own mother and my own father in her and that clearly she really loves her child, and she’s doing the best with what she’s been given.”
Cole began to break down, continuing, “Unfortunately, it’s not much, and for that, I’m sorry. I think every parent deserves the utmost grace and guidance with how to help their child. That being said, I don’t wish for her child to have the same result that I did….”
From the Washington Examiner
See video excerpt.
Spoken by someone who knows the dangers of medical transition procedures.
All the letters in LGBTQ spread and contain lies about human nature, but the T is an especially pernicious lie that is hurting many vulnerable young people while drug companies and doctors profit.
LGBTQ+++ means their name is legion.
The very fact that there was no rush by teenage girls to self-mutilate in times past ought to have given parents, medical professionals and Democratic politicians sufficient pause to counter the faddish bum rush into the operating room occurring today. The sorrowful look on Chloe Cole’s face also ought to give parents, medical professionals and Democratic politicians sufficient cause for true guilt for their part in this tragedy. How many more lives will be ruined before some semblance of sanity returns to those promoting such “gender affirming care?”
Democrats: you ruined this young woman’s life. You’re ruining countless others. You’re destroying everything good about America.
The Democrats did not do this to her.
She did this to herself.
Her parents did this to her.
Some doctors did this to her.
I am not a Democrat and I don’t vote Democrat but put the responsibility where it belongs.
I would give an assist to social media (which in my opinion, kids that age should not be on.)
I would give an assist to whoever sexually assaulted her in eighth grade.
I would never have made the decision her parents made. I would have left any doctor that suggested it. Not because of an ideology but because you do not take medicines with those serious side effects and for the purpose of calming a kid down and you do not have surgery on healthy tissue.
Ms. Cole does not look like a monster. She is still pretty, but someone should be held accountable for the unseen damage that was done to her body. God bless and keep her for telling her story.
Unseen? She had a double mastectomy.
Meant most of the mutilation is covered by clothing.
A double mastectomy is not mutilation.
She may not look like she would have if she had not gone down the road she did, but she is still beautiful.
This is a teenager.
Don’t say hurtful things.
I hope and pray the long-term male-hormone treatment she has had will not damage her body irreparably.
“A double mastectomy is not mutilation.” A mutilation is an act or instance of destroying, removing, or severely damaging a limb or other body part of a person or animal. This was done here. It is, thankfully, hidden by clothing, but it is mutilation nonetheless. It is not hurtful to speak the truth. Can’t you see how hurt she is not from anything said but from the mutilation performed by doctors eager to make money on this poor girl’s confusion? But you are right– she is still beautiful despite the pained look in her eyes.
You are deliberately twisting my words, whoever you are. Unless a mastectomy is done to cure an actual disease such as cancer, it is a mutilation. I think you are saying this to avoid any payments (for lack of a better word) to her. End of discussion.
Anne TE, I am sorry if I hurt your feeling but you do not say things like that.
Stop doubling down on it.
This is a teenager.
And a vulnerable one.
People, especially vulturable people internalize words like that.
Stop using it.
You are not hurting the doctors, or the ideologues, or the Democrats.
You are adding to the humiliation and victimization of all those who have had mastectomies.
So we can’t say what something is? You’re just like Fr. Martin who says the Church should stop saying homosexuality is disordered because it hurts people’s feewings.
The Church says that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and that the homosexual inclination is objectively disordered.
It is often misinterpreted.
It does not mean that homosexual persons have a mental disorder.
It means that the acts and the inclination are not ordered to the Creator’s purpose for sexual relations which is reproduction.
Since so many do not understand the sentence, Fr. Martin and others propose using other words to tell the Catholic Truth.
But homosexuality is a mental disorder. Sexual attraction is a feature of the mind. If the mind is inclined to the same sex instead of the opposite sex, it is a disordered attraction, as you pointed out and agree with. Since the disordered attraction is rooted in the operation of the mind, the disorder is in the mind. A disorder of the mind is a mental disorder.
Let’s call things what they are, even if some people are put off by it. Be clear: Fr. Martin wants to change the language used to describe homosexuality as a first step towards changing the church’s teaching about homosexuality. As long as the church’s doctrine is that homosexuality is disordered, the teaching can’t change.
Homosexuals have something wrong with them. What’s wrong with them is their sexual attraction to the same sex instead of the opposite sex. It’s a pathological condition. They don’t want to hear it, but it’s the truth. Just like blind people have something wrong with them: a visual disorder. Do we pretend that blind people don’t have something wrong with them? No. So why do some people want us to pretend that gays don’t have something wrong with them? Because they want to change the perception of homosexuality to being a variant of normalcy instead of a disorder.
I had a muscle-saving flap from my own tissue. For me to say that my mastectomy was not a mutilation is ridiculous. I might not have chosen reconstruction if I had had the cancer on both sides the last time, but my condition would have cause problems with balance without reconstruction. I still have the 2205 book “Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book”, 4th edition. It has all kinds of pictures of the procedures. That alone makes us women face reality very fast.
Reply to “pathological”: I doubt that you are a doctor, let alone a psychologist or a psychiatrist, yet you declare something a mental disorder when real doctors and psychologists have not. Even the Church has not called homosexuality a mental disorder. It says it is disordered, but that does not mean the same thing as “illness” or disorder in the way we think of it. Disorder in the context the Catechism uses it means that the act is not ordered to the purpose that the Church perceives God created it. That is not the same thing as a disorder in western medicine and is not the same thing as an illness. When Father Martin asks the Church to stop using the term disordered, it is not only because it is harmful, but because the term confuses people because of the multiple definitions of the word. It has clearly confused you.
Reply to “your fellow Catholic”: until several decades ago, all doctors and psychiatrists agreed that homosexuality was a mental disorder. It was listed in the DSM as a disorder. Political pressure from gay activists coerced its removal, not medical evidence. Political pressure today and politically correct brainwashing of doctors in training prevent many doctors today from acknowledging the truth once universally accepted that homosexuality is a disorder.
Homosexuality is a disorder because a bodily function, namely the sexual appetite, is not operating as it should to realize its biological end. The people who are confused about homosexuality are those who think it is normal or good.
You can have a cavity, a disorder in a tooth, yet not have the cavity interfere with your daily life. Yet you still have something wrong with you: a cavity. You can be homosexual yet not have homosexuality interfere with your daily life. Yet you still have something wrong with you: homosexuality.
YFC, it is not the way the Church perceives but how God has revealed
Do you realize that you are writing to a woman who has had two lipectomies, one on each side, lymph nodes taken out, radiation on each side for cancer. only to have to have to have a mastectomy on one side many years later with reconstructive surgery by two teams of doctors that took twelve hours to complete, along with cancer medication for several years.
When you have gone through all that, come back and tell me what I ought to write about mastectomies.
Any commentator can make up all kinds of things about herself or himself (such as medical procedures) in a blog comment just to make a point, even to seem to prove another commentator wrong. One of the side effects of anonymity. Careless words that can potentially hurt especially a young person should not be used in a blog comment.
The above post was meant to be in reply to the poster “not mutilation” on July 31, this year at 9:14 pm.
I understand you to be an advanced senior and praise the Lord that you lived through all that and got to the age that you are.
People today are much less accepting of hurtful words.
Because people are hurt and also because they start to see themselves as others see them.
It affects their self-image, their self-confidence, their self, esteem, their relationships, their life choices.
Some people have a hard time even leaving the house.
You said that you had reconstructive surgery so I assume you understand.
I knew who you were responding to. It doesn’t make a difference.
I only wrote about my procedures because I am sick and tired of people lying to these youngsters and telling them they can change their sex when it is impossible, and they are just setting them up for a lifetime of surgery and medication.
You don’t get it. In an anonymous comment you can say anything you want about yourself and make things up. Regardless of who you are you should know not write potentially offensive things.
I feel sorry for her and the injury she sustained.
She handled herself very well at the hearing.
May God give her healing.
I only wrote about my procedures because I am sick and tired of people lying to these youngsters and telling them they can change their sex when it is impossible, and they are just setting them up for a lifetime of surgery and medication.
This was accidentally posted twice. By the way, in my original post that seemed to stir up some people, I was not the one who referred to Chloe as a monster, those were words that she herself used in the video, and all I wrote was that did not look like one. It is evident that some people did not even bother to watch the video.