'It's like Nazi-era experiments.' Anti-trans poster child Chloe Cole slams the breast-removal op she endured aged 15 and rallies conservatives to protect other vulnerable kids
- Cutting girls' breasts is akin to the medical atrocities in Auschwitz, Cole says
- Breast removals of kids occur 'all the time' and must be stopped, she says
- Most transitioners need mental health support, not puberty blockers, she adds
- Her opponents say gender dysphoric minors need help and sometimes meds
- A sharp rise in child surgeries is fuelling a culture war between left and right
California teen Chloe Cole, perhaps the most famous American to undergo sex-transition surgery as a child and later regret it, has spoken passionately about her procedure being like 'Nazi-era experiments'.
Addressing a think tank in Washington, Cole, 18, said she was coerced into taking puberty blockers and having both breasts surgically removed when she was 15, and warned of other minors being misdiagnosed and
pushed into similar operations.
Cole late last year unveiled plans to sue the doctors who authorized her surgery and 'gender-affirming care', as it is known, fast becoming a poster child for
conservatives who want to protect other kids from a similar outcome.
'It's important to know how awful it really is,' Cole told the Heritage Foundation about her double mastectomy.
Cole described having mental health issues and family problems as a child and becoming exposed to transgender discussions online.
Clinicians railroaded her into taking puberty blockers and then hormones and finally surgery, she says.
'They kind of watered it down,' she said of the doctors who explained to her the impending double mastectomy. 'They simplified it a little bit, just to make it a little more digestible for my 15-year-old brain.'