Detransition activist Chloe Cole blasts Los Angeles Times for suggesting movement could cause ‘death’ of trans kids

Detransitioner Chloe Cole has responded to an LA Times article that questioned her “motivations” for sharing her detransition experience while implying that her movement could lead to the “death” of transgender children.

“This article is absolutely insane,” Cole wrote on X last week. “They are heavily implying that by speaking from my own personal experience it will literally kill children. This is the same rhetoric that nearly killed President Trump. I already fear for my life every time I go on stage, thanks for escalating the rhetoric, LA Times.”

The article, titled “How California Teen Chloe Cole Became a Leader of the ‘Detransition’ Movement — and a Right-Wing Icon,” casts a negative light on Cole’s efforts to educate the public against gender-transforming treatments and surgeries, which began after her own experience transitioning as a minor.

The article accuses Cole, who underwent a double mastectomy at age 15, of trying to “erase transgender children” by speaking out about her regrets about her transition and calling for a ban on the same medical treatments and gender reassignment procedures “she has already received.”

The article also cites critics who suggest the 19-year-old’s detransition movement may be contributing to higher suicide rates within the transgender community.

“She said her movement — one that others say will lead to harm and even death for transgender children — is ‘beautiful’ and ‘based on love,'” the article quotes Cole as saying at a recent event in Sacremento.

Chloe Cole has spoken to the Independent Women’s Forum about doctors who appear unwilling to help her reverse her gender reassignment surgery. (Fox News Digital)

“Major medical organizations condemn the policies Cole has promoted, and LGBTQ+ activists warn that people like her pose a danger to already vulnerable young people,” the Times article continues. “They worry that the amplification of her story is part of an organized effort by conservatives to discriminate against LGBTQ+ youth whose access to health care is crucial to their well-being, citing high suicide rates among transgender people.”

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The article adds: “Most of Cole’s critics don’t deny her personal story in the same way she discredits the experiences of hundreds of thousands of transgender youth. But as her notoriety grows, they question her motives.”

The LA Times then quotes Dr. Marci Bowers, president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), as saying that gender-based medical intervention is “appropriate for the vast majority” of patients and that doctors are required to follow “careful and deliberate” standards. Surgery for minors is rare, she said, and reserved for severe cases.

“Gender diversity is a human condition that has always existed and deserves access to health care — and access to it can save lives,” Bowers, an ob-gyn who has performed “thousands” of sex-change surgeries, told the LA Times.

The article, which notes Cole’s recent support for former President Trump, says Cole told them she does not “believe in the concept of a trans child or that transgenderism is an innate identity.”

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 20: Chloe Cole speaks as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) looks on during a press conference on Capitol Hill on September 20, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

“It’s just something that’s an action. … It’s something that I believe comes from other factors in your life, other stressors,” she reportedly said.

It then details Cole’s lawsuit against a national medical group and its doctors whom Cole accused of performing a “mutilating and mimetic sex-change experiment” on her.

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“She has transformed her transition process — which she once saw as a reflection of supportive parents, a rarity among LGBTQ+ youth — into a cautionary tale of nightmares,” the Times article reads.

After his initial response to the X article, Cole wrote in a follow-up post: “This only fills me with more conviction and more determination. There is not a single thing on this earth that would stop me from speaking out against the mutilation of our children.”

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who recently spoke out about his own child’s transition experience, responded to Cole’s post, writing, “WPATH is a criminal organization.”

“Yes,” Cole wrote. “They slaughter and sterilize children not only for money, but because they are passionate about it.”

The Los Angeles Times told Fox News Digital that their “reporting on this topic speaks for itself and we encourage people to read the story for themselves.”

Neither Cole nor WPATH responded to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Chloe Cole. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Last year, Cole told Congress that she was diagnosed with gender dysphoria and was quickly prescribed puberty blockers and testosterone, receiving her first injection at age 13.

At the time, she was struggling with a multitude of mental health comorbidities, including anxiety, depression, puberty difficulties, learning disabilities, autism spectrum symptoms, and fears of sexual abuse or rape, in addition to ongoing confusion about her gender. But instead of “intersex hormones and mutilating surgery,” she “needed love, care, attention, and regular weekly psychotherapy, not intersex hormones and mutilating surgery,” according to her complaint.

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She said treatment was presented to her and her parents as the only option to prevent suicide, even though she had not had suicidal thoughts at the time.

She has since changed gender and has become a vocal opponent of transgender care for minors.