Ex-transgender speaks out on Skrmetti case: ‘Identity crisis’ is ‘plaguing my generation’

As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a high-profile transgender case this past week, a prominent detransitioner and public speaker emphasized the importance of the case and said it could change everything about the gender perspective they are fighting in the United States.

US v. Skrmetti is about a Tennessee law that bans gender reassignment therapy and surgery on children. Experts believe that the Supreme Court’s decision in this case could set a precedent that will shape laws regarding the treatment of transgender children across the country.

“Iit is very important that this law passes so that other states, not only Tennessee, that have these protective laws, can support them in the courts and maybe even states that are under the fence, like blue states or purple states, can not be pressured. put these laws in place to protect the children in their community,” Chloe Cole told Fox News Digital in the freezing cold outside the Supreme Court building.

“This is the identity problem that is plaguing my generation right now,” he continued. “Children are losing their health, they are losing their ability to grow into adults, they are losing their ability to have children when they are older. It makes no sense.”

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Cole, who is 20 years old and began transitioning from female to male at age 12 and stopped at age 17, said he continues to experience daily pain and faces serious health issues from the long-term effects of the transition. treatment and surgery he received as a child.

““I’ve been on blood blockers, testosterone injections, and I’ve had a double mastectomy, and all three of these treatments have irreparably and forever affected my life,” he said.

“I went through menopause when I was younger,” Cole explained. “So, I would have hot flashes and these other painful symptoms that are very different from what women experience naturally in their 40s, 50s. , 60s, not before even teenagers.“

Chloe Cole began the gender reassignment process at the age of 12 and underwent a double mastectomy at the age of 15. (Fox News Digital)

Some activists, including lawyers opposing the Tennessee law, say that gender reassignment therapies help children who suffer from gender confusion, improve their mental health and prevent suicide. However, many transgender people – often called “detransitioners” – dispute the claim that transgender drugs solve mental health problems. Instead, they say that in addition to causing physical problems, the treatment can also cause serious psychological damage.

Besides dealing with the fact that both of her breasts were amputated when she was 15, Cole said testosterone also “made permanent changes to my bones.”

“I have a residual Adam’s apple and facial hair growth, but I also have problems with my urinary tract, and pelvic pain. [and] with things like sex work, now, as an older woman, it has become something that has been very painful physically and mentally,” she explained.

“I’m a woman,” she continued. “I want to be a mother one day, I want to get married, and this is something that will undoubtedly affect my marriage, my love life, and my ability to have children.”

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Activists hold a rally outside the Supreme Court building in Washington, DC, as the court hears oral arguments in the transgender treatments of US v. Skrmetti on Dec. 4, 2024. (Fox News Digital)

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Although sex reassignment treatment is being promoted by doctors and hospital systems across the country, Cole said there are still many unanswered questions about the long-term effects of these treatments.

“I don’t know what the lasting effects of my fertility are. There are many unknowns about my life, I don’t know what the future of my life will be like,” she said. “It’s been going on for years, and I’m still dealing with the painful consequences of all of this when I could have grown up to be a healthy, strong woman.”

Although he continues to deal with the effects of treatment, Cole said he is determined to prevent more children from suffering what he did.

“This is not appropriate for children,” he concluded. “Children deserve to be allowed to grow up with their bodies intact, they deserve the opportunity to learn to love themselves the way they are, the way they were born, the way God created them well in their mothers’ wombs.”