Teen Who Transitioned As A Minor Says Healthcare Industry Won’t Help Her Detransition
"There's no standards of care for people like me."
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.
The teen said that she has had to navigate the process alone.
"I've reached out to the team of medical professionals who helped me transition, and I haven't gotten any help with my detransition. I've even tried to figure out how to go through the motions all by myself," she explained.
It has been well-established that the vast majority of children who experience gender dysphoria “outgrow” it by the time they reach adulthood and once-pioneering gender clinics overseas have began to walk back their pursuit of so-called “gender-affirming” healthcare like that Cole underwent.
Yet in the United States, the establishment medical community as well as the Biden administration and a number of states continue to endorse this novel and dangerous approach to “healthcare.”
They don’t care one bit about these young people. They’re just after the money!