Detransitioning teen says medical team wouldn't help her
PLUS: Christian leaders silent on Canadian pastor's arrest and the Smithsonian Women's History Museum will feature men who identify as women
An 18-year-old who began so-called “gender-affirming” treatment for gender dysphoria as a minor says that the medical team who helped her has had little to offer in the way of help or guidance since she began to detransition.
Chloe Cole began puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones when she was just 13 and underwent a double mastectomy at 15.
However, when she began to detransition at 16, she found that there were “no standards of care” for how to assist her through this process.
"I started experiencing gender dysphoria when I was about 12 years old, and I started socially transitioning, … first by changing my name, the way I dressed, the way I cut my hair and my mannerisms, and then eventually, I got diagnosed with gender dysphoria,” she told the crowd at CPAC last week.
"And at 13, I was put on puberty blockers and testosterone. And I had a double mastectomy at 15, just after my sophomore year of high school, and I stopped transitioning at 16 years old," the teen continued.
Cole was taking part in a panel discussion for an event entitled "A Time for Courage,” at the annual gathering of conservative figures, as The Christian Post reported.
She went on to explain that while California law required insurers to cover her transition as a minor, there was no such requirement once she wanted to go off the puberty blockers and hormones, which are included in a “gender-affirming” treatment protocol that the medical community often mischaracterizes as merely “temporary” and something which a patient can stop at any time.
"I'm from California, and by law, insurance companies are supposed to cover every single step of the transition process pretty much,” Cole said, replying “no” when asked if they covered the detransition.
Link: Teen Who Transitioned As A Minor Says Healthcare Industry Won’t Help Her Detransition
Fox News host Tucker Carlson confronted “professional Christians” for remaining silent on the arrest of a Canadian pastor who protested a drag event for children.
“Where is David French, Beth Moore, Tim Keller, and all these people who are defending Christianity as actual Christians are being arrested for being Christians? Not a word,” Carlson said during his program on Thursday evening, referring to a handful of prominent Christian figures who have been accused of having sympathies for “wokeness” and COVID-19 policies.
He was discussing the arrest of Pastor Derek Riemer, who was physically expelled from the Calgary Public Library’s Seton branch for protesting a drag queen event for kids.
According to The Daily Wire, police later showed up at Riemer’s home and arrested him, in a scene that was eerily similar to the arrest of a handful of Canadian pastors over their “illegal” church gatherings during the pandemic.
“On some level, all governments hate religious people, because it’s competition. And revolutionary governments, totalitarian governments, go after religious people first,” Carlson opined during his segment on Riemer. “That is the measure of a free country in the end: are you allowed to believe that there’s an authority higher than the people in charge of your government?”
“Canada has now become an atheist totalitarian state with amazing speed,” he continued. “In Canada, it’s now a crime to object to sexualized drag shows for children.”
Link: Tucker Carlson Slams “Professional Christians” for Silence on Canadian Pastor’s Arrest
The future Smithsonian Women’s History Museum will include men who identify as women as part of its effort to be “inclusive,” the interim director for the project, Lisa Sasaki, recently said.
Sasaki is spearheading the museum, which is being built “from scratch,” as she told The New York Times, and as of yet has no building or even planned site but has pulled in $55 million in pledges from such philanthropic heavy-hitters as Melinda French Gates, Tory Burch, and Alice Walton.
“The stories we tell about our country’s history so often overlook the contributions of the women in every generation whose efforts and ideas helped make us who we are today,” French Gates, the former wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, said in a statement. “By paying tribute to the women who shaped our past, the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum empowers and inspires the ones who will shape our future.”
Sasaki told the Times that the museum will feature women who have contributed to politics, entertainment, and science as well as “transgender women,” i.e. men who identify as women.
“There is no monolithic experience of womanhood, and Sasaki emphasized that her museum would not attempt to create a singular narrative. The institution will include an oral history program for visitors to submit their own stories, for example,” the paper explained.
“But Sasaki said that she plans to include transgender women, who have been subject to increasing harassment and violence at a time when there is a national discussion, and deep partisan divide, about the acceptance of transgender identities,” it revealed.
“We have a job to build a museum that’s going to serve the public for a very, very long time,” Sasaki told the Times. “From the DNA of this museum, there has been a desire to be inclusive.”