קלואי קול, חזרה בה מניסיון "לשנות את מינה" וכעת פועלת בהסברה על הנושא וחושפת את ההשלכות הקשות של מה שמכונה "טיפולים לשינוי מין" בקרב בני נוער.
בריאיון מיוחד לחדשות NTD קול אומרת בין היתר: "בסופו של דבר, כשהתחלתי להיות מוקפת בגברים ובנשים נוצרים מכל עבר, מכל מיני מקומות התחלתי ללמוד שאלוהים אף פעם אינו טועה ולמרות הטעויות שעשיתי במהלך חיי, הוא לא ייתן לשום דבר מזה להתבזבז. כל חרטה שהייתה לי, כל דבר שעליו התאבלתי, הוא עזר לי להשתמש בו לטובה וזה הוכח כנכון בחיי. האמונה נתנה לי יסוד איתן שעליו אני יכולה לבסס את הערכים שלי ואת שאר חיי ולהשתמש בו כדי לעזור לאנשים סביבי. היא גם סייעה לי להחלים מחלק מהצער שחוויתי, וגם להבין על מה אני נלחמת, שילדים נבראו בצלם אלוהים, ושאין דבר כזה 'להיוולד בגוף הלא נכון'".
"עם אובדן השדיים שלי, איבדתי חלק ניכר מהזהות שלי כאישה וכמי שכיום שואפת להפוך לאם. זה משהו שאני נושאת איתי כל יום. איני מדברת על כך לעתים קרובות ברמה מאוד פגיעה, כי פשוט איני יכולה לבזבז על זה זמן. אני חייבת להשתמש בזה למשהו מועיל יותר לטובת הכלל. עם זאת, זה מקור לכל כך הרבה דמעות, שאיני מראה אף פעם לעולם, אבל זה גם משהו שמצית בי אש. כי זה לא קרה רק לי, אלא לעוד כל כך הרבה ילדים, לכל כך הרבה בנים ובנות קטנים אחרים, וזה אחד מהדברים הרבים שדוחפים אותי להמשיך...", מספרת קול.
בנוגע למדיניות ממשל טראמפ בנושא אומרת קול: "זהו הממשל הראשון שמתייחס ברצינות לנושא הטרנסג'נדרים, במיוחד כשמדובר בהטלת מום בגוף של ילדים חפים מפשע. אני מדברת על זה כבר כ-4 שנים, וזה היה מאבק ארוך וקשה כל כך. עם זאת, אני מרגישה שסוף סוף הגענו לרגע בתרבות שלנו שבו הדברים… המגמה באמת מתחילה להתהפך".
Joining us now on site in Arizona is Chloe Cole, detransitioner and advocate shedding
light on the distressing consequences of so-called gender-affirming care for adolescents.
Chloe, thank you so much for joining us.
Thanks for having me.
Now, you've spoken openly about finding faith during your detransition.
How did that faith help you come to accept and love the body you were born in?
I think it was the single biggest missing piece of my entire life.
It was what led to the confusion with my identity and my body in the first place.
It was a hole that I started to feel once again when I detransitioned.
And eventually, as I started to be surrounded by Christian men and women all over me, or
all around me, from all over, I started to learn that God never made a mistake.
And even in spite of the mistakes that I had made during my life, He wasn't going to let
any of it be unused.
Every misgiving I had, everything that I was grieving, He was going to help me use for
good.
And this has proven true in my life.
It's given me a solid foundation that I can base my values and the rest of my life off
of and use to help the people around me.
And it's helped me to heal from some of the grief of what I've been through, as well as
to understand what I'm fighting for, that children were created in God's image, that
there's no such thing as being born in the wrong body.
And that is exactly why we have to fight for these kids who are being fed these lies, who
are being separated from their parents, whose parents are being lied to, that they are going
to die if they are not transitioned as early as possible.
And I want to dedicate the rest of my life to upholding God's will and His word and using
my testimony to do so.
And Chloe, before finding faith, what was sort of the deepest struggle that you were
kind of going through that you think that a lot of young kids right now may be fighting
and how faith could actually help them out of it?
I think that it's a largely missing component in Gen Z culture.
I think that a lot of people my age, people who I grew up with, people from all over,
grew up in homes that did not really value that part of their lives.
And they were missing that foundation of their values.
And I think that that confusion is presenting itself in my generation in more ways than
just transgenderism or LGBT ideology.
So many people are dealing with different addictions, afflictions, and we're trying
to reorient myself.
But I think the biggest mistake, perhaps, is believing that we're owed something.
No, we are the new adults, and it is up to us to rediscover our relationship with God,
to spread the gospel, and to fight for the future of our country, of our children, and
our communities.
Now, you've said before, you're grieving after the medical procedures you underwent.
What does that grief look like?
How are you working through it?
Well, of course, the loss of my breasts, I have lost a major part of my identity as a
woman and as somebody who aspires now to become a mother.
And it's something that I carry with me every day.
I don't talk about it as often on a very vulnerable level, because I can't spend my time doing
that.
I have to use it for something more productive, for the greater good.
There are so many tears that I don't show to the world, but it's also something that
lights a fire underneath, because it's happened not only to me, but to so many other children,
so many other little boys and girls.
And that is one of many things that keeps me moving forward.
And your story has touched so many people.
You were recently invited to speak at a press conference in Washington with the HHS Secretary,
R.F.K.
Jr.
It was a very powerful speech.
For those who haven't seen it, I highly recommend going to X or whatever platform to be able
to view it.
What does this signal to you in terms of how serious the administration is taking this
issue?
This is the very first administration to take the transgender issue seriously, especially
when it comes to the mutilation of innocent children.
I have been speaking for about four years now, and it's been such an uphill battle.
But I feel like we've finally come to a moment in our culture where the tide is really starting
to turn.
And it's not just normal, everyday people who are fed up with this.
Our own federal government is finally making change to stop this.
Trump has released so many different executive orders this year, attacking this issue on
different fronts.
The HHS, they released their peer-reviewed report on these treatments, and the outcome
was that these treatments and children are, at best, questionable, or at worst, destructive
completely to life.
And this industry needs to be challenged, and that is now official U.S. policy.
And they have proposed measures to continue fighting this in 2026 and in the coming years
in the second term of the Trump administration.
And I think that we've had so many wins, and we have so many to go.
And I'm really excited to see how things go.
So we need to continue moving on this issue at full force until it is illegal on every
level, statewide, federal.
And these laws are upheld by courts.
We need to ensure that there's a way that children who have already been harmed can
come out of it safely, that children who are still dealing with the confusion can be guided
out of it, and to hold, of course, the manufacturers of the pharmaceuticals, of the horrific medical
device that they're using for this, and that the doctors who are involved in this and those
who are complicit are held accountable.
Chloe Cole, you really need to be commended for your bravery, really taking on such a
powerful machine when you think about the medical and industrial complex and the pharmaceutical
industrial complex.
Thank you so much for joining us.