A detransitioner who outlined her traumatic experience of ‘sex-swap’ surgery on Instagram has had restrictions placed on her account.
Chloe Cole revealed that Meta, the parent company of Instagram, had blocked her account “to non-followers” – a practice known as shadow-banning – because it claimed her profile breached “guidelines on violence.”
Cole’s Instagram biography, which she says gave rise to the ban, stated: “19 – female (XX) – former trans kid – started T & Blockers at 13, Double Mastectomy at 15 – detransed at 16.”
Cole told online news magazine The Post Millennial that Meta “is absolutely correct in stating that my bio describes something violent, that is – my own life experiences. However, I am doing quite the opposite of condoning what doctors did to me and instead using my experience to raise awareness and encourage others to be compassionate.”
In June, American cinema chain AMC Theatres cancelled showings of the film, No Way Back: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care, after coming under pressure from trans activists.
Detransitioner Laura Becker, whose story features in the documentary, told Fox News that “suppressing viewpoints that basically are just unpopular or difficult to deal with” is “incredibly dangerous”.
She argued the filmmakers “are just trying to increase awareness about mental health issues and medical ethics”.
Becker warned that teenagers “are being fast-tracked on a conveyor belt-like system to getting surgery and hormones which create permanent damages instead of addressing their actual mental health concerns….”
From the Christian Institute
The truth is the truth.
Transgenderism is a combination of evil and mental illness. Nothing good about it at all. Instead of transgender pride, there should be transgender sadness or mourning. I immediately write off anyone who supports transgenderism as a combination of evil and insanity.
My opinion is that it is a neurodiverse condition like autism and ADHD.
The evil enters when other people directly or indirectly influence the neurodiverse person into false diagnosis.
Most of the arguments today are how to accommodate people with this condition.
I had read somewhere that yes, transgenderism is a psychological disorder. But put it this way.
When cochlear implants meant to cure deafness came on the scene, deaf people protested because it would kill off “deaf culture”. Does that mean making cochlear implants was wrong?
When medicine for autism was researched, autistic people succeeded in trying to suppress it because they didn’t want the “autism community” to go away. Does that mean medicine for autism is bad?
There exists research into medication which helps to cure this disease of “gender dysphoria” without mutilating the body. It’s in Europe, they’ve openly discussed it. But in America, it’s been covered up and silenced because we need to protect “trans rights”.
We should not “accommodate” trans people. They are sick. It’s like trying to “accommodate” someone with the runs. You wouldn’t want someone with diarrhea around you at work until they were cured? We need to cure them, to give them medicine, to help them become the fullest child of God they can be.
Transgenderism is like the measles. Let’s work until there are no more people suffering from this awful disease!
It is still a puzzle to me why the homosexual crowd embraces the transgender movement. Is a man wanting to identify as a woman and taking steps to do so really a homosexual seeking to express his sexual orientation differently? As an example, would Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, want to date men, if he wants to date at all? I would welcome insights from those on the forum better acquainted with the issue than I.
Many don’t. There is concern that gay kids are being misdiagnosed as trans.
Gender identity and sexual orientation are two different things.
Jenner is in his 70s and I don’t think dating is a priority. Jenner was always attracted to females.
Many trans people are sexually free, or bisexual. Many are not.
Each individual is different.
“Gender identity and sexual orientation are two different things.” I think an exploration of this idea would be most helpful. I would enjoy a back and forth on this claim as it seems to take us to the heart of the matter of sexual deviancy, where I am using the word “deviant” to mean outside the norm, and not encrusting the word with negative connotations.
Gender identity is how you think of yourself in terms of maleness/femaleness or some people don’t feel strongly male or female so they might identify as non-binary or gender queer or gender fluid. It is not the same as sex (what reproductive organs you have). It is not the same as gender expression (which is different from both and usually involves clothes, hairstyles, makeup or no makeup)
Sexual orientation is what kind of people you are predominantly attracted to. It could be males or females or both or neither..
Louis Kahn said “Even a brick wants to be somebody.” Young people want to feel special. Wicked, twisted adults are pushing this on vulnerable kids.
Helen: The Devil made them do it.
I am reading two different books simultaneously, one is on integrity and the other on character.
They both have value but one is more “look inside yourself to be true to yourself” and the other is “look at your circumstances to find your vocation.’
Both have merits and people do both.
A lot of LGBTQ activists see their vocation as making the life journey of the next generation of LGBTQ easier.
Catholics have 3 vocations; clergy/religious, lifelong faithful marriage accepting of all children, or a single life dedicated to God.
Catholics have a narrower road to trod than our secular contemporaries.
I have had a difficult, unhappy life. Jesus is my joy. I wonder why and then I realized that this life is short and eternity is long and you are given unhappiness in this life so that you will have happiness in the next.
God knows what is best for every soul.
Two different books simultaneously? One with the right eye and the other with the left?
“I have had a difficult, unhappy life.” I am so glad that in the midst of such difficulty, you can find your joy in the One who promised an abundant life now and eternal life in the age to come. Yours is a very precious witness, and I thank you for it. There are a lot of us out there who need your example of faith and sacrifice.
This poor young woman is a victim of violence. She has not advocated any violence against anyone. She’s being silenced simply because of the content of her message. May God bless, protect and heal her.