Chloe Cole’s story is a reminder that the spiritual void left by our secularizing culture has real, painful consequences for American families. The young detransitioner told The Daily Signal at CPAC that what she calls a “lack of faith” helped create the confusion that led her down a path of irreversible medical interventions.
Cole’s trajectory is chilling in its speed: she began puberty blockers at 13 and, two years later, underwent a double mastectomy before she had the maturity to understand the lifelong costs. By 16 she had begun to detransition, and today she travels the country sharing what she calls hard-earned lessons about identity, medicine, and truth.
What stands out is how Cole describes her transgender identity as the thing that filled a hole where faith should have been, and how finding Christ gave her a sense of wholeness even after permanent harm. She has said that the love of people of faith revealed truth to her and gave her the moral clarity she lacked as a teenager.
Her criticism of the medical establishment is blunt: she calls doctors “completely unsuccessful” and laments that institutions pushed one-size-fits-all treatments without properly supporting vulnerable kids and their families. Conservatives should see that as a demand for accountability from hospitals and practitioners who embraced ideology over prudence and parental rights.
Cole has moved from private pain to public advocacy, testifying before Congress and speaking at major conservative gatherings to warn lawmakers and parents about the rush to medicalize gender confusion in minors. Her activism is focused on keeping puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries out of pediatric care and on promoting long-term care and prevention for young people.
This is exactly the kind of witness our movement needs — someone who not only survived a failed experiment but now points the way back to faith, family, and common sense medicine. Her testimony has resonated in religious and parent-rights circles as proof that restoring spiritual and communal anchors protects children from ideological fads.
Hardworking Americans know what matters: steady families, responsible medicine, and the freedom to raise children according to conscience and faith. Lawmakers who care about the next generation should listen to voices like Chloe Cole’s, ban risky interventions for minors, and rebuild institutions that defend rather than hollow out the identities of our children.
