Detransitioner Chloe Cole Testifies at Fiery Senate Hearing on Mutilation of Gender-confused Children

LifeSiteNews staff : Jun 5, 2026
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"An entire generation of children were lied to. There is no such thing as a child being born in the wrong body, but there are physicians and medical bodies who prey on the confusion of perfectly healthy young boys and girls." -Chloe Cole

(Washington, DC) — [LifeSiteNews.com] Tensions ran high during a US Senate committee hearing on Wednesday as Republicans argued that children need to be protected from the irreversible harm of gender mutilating medical treatments and surgical procedures while Democrats and LGBT activists insisted that decisions regarding so-called gender-affirming care should be left to the parents of minors and their doctors. (Screengrab image: via LifeSiteNews)

The clash occurred during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) hearing titled "Protecting Our Children: Exposing the Dangers of Irreversible Gender Transition Procedures on Minors."

Detransitioner Chloe Cole, who was given puberty blockers and testosterone injections at 13 and had her breasts removed at 15, told the committee, "I hadn't even had my first kiss or practiced driving before. How could they take away part of my womanhood before I was old enough to call myself one?"

She said that her parents were manipulated by the medical staff when they were offered a dire Hobson's choice: "Transition your daughter or bury her."

"That's the lie my parents were told. What they weren't told was that trying to change my sex would destroy my mental health, or more importantly, that we had another much healthier option: Saying ‘No' to all of this," Cole said.

"Instead of honoring my parents' instincts to keep me safe, the doctors put me on a chemical castration drug to stop my puberty, followed by massive doses of testosterone to induce a fake male puberty," she explained. "I'm almost 22 years old now. I have no breasts because they were replaced with scars."

"This is not medicine. Medicine heals what is sick. But me being female was not a disease. The lie was a disease," she declared... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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