Epoch Times - ‘I was human garbage to them’: Chloe Cole on the harrowing realities of detransitioning
Aired: 2025-12-30
Duration: 03:23


=== Detractors' Blame Game (02:51) ===

[00:00:00]  How has the community treat detransitioners treat you?
[00:00:06]  I laugh because it's so comically awful how they treated me from the very beginning.
[00:00:14]  Before I was involved with politics, before I was a public speaker, the moment that I detransitioned, I was human garbage to them.
[00:00:29]  I was subhuman even.
[00:00:31]  They told me, they immediately turned their backs on me.
[00:00:34]  They were quick to blame me.
[00:00:36]  They told me, this is all your fault.
[00:00:38]  Don't put this on us.
[00:00:40]  You were the one who said yes.
[00:00:42]  You were the one who wanted this.
[00:00:44]  You were a complete idiot for not knowing that you weren't truly transgender.
[00:00:49]  So don't come crying to us.
[00:00:52]  And you should shut up about this because you might scare somebody out of getting the care that they really need.
[00:01:02]  And you are a waste of resources.
[00:01:04]  You were a waste of the love and support of your family.
[00:01:07]  You didn't deserve the support of your doctors.
[00:01:09]  You didn't deserve any of this.
[00:01:11]  So stay quiet and stop being a problem.
[00:01:13]  And they said even worse.
[00:01:15]  There were people who were trying to compel me to retransition.
[00:01:17]  People who were trying to tell me to kill myself even, just for the fact that I was going against the dogma.
[00:01:23]  I stayed low for a little bit.
[00:01:25]  I apologized to the same people who were abusing me because I was a freshly traumatized 16-year-old girl.
[00:01:35]  I had been bullied in school before, but nobody had ever treated me this horribly over such a painful part of my life.
[00:01:44]  But after a while of being painfully isolated, I started to really think the way that they are treating me is not deserved.
[00:02:01]  I'm speaking to nothing but my experience, the way that I feel, and to reality.
[00:02:09]  I'm going to speak up regardless of whether they want me to or not.
[00:02:15]  And I just knew that there had to be other detransitioners out there, and very quickly I learned that they were in the thousands.
[00:02:25]  And I'm sure that it's doubled, tripled, quadrupled over the years the amount of us who were out there.
[00:02:32]  We are never going to know the real numbers.
[00:02:34]  I'm grateful that I chose to speak up and that God has given me the strength in order to do so.

=== Chasing Something (00:46) ===

[00:02:41]  And some of the harassment, the hatred I faced over the years has gotten worse.
[00:02:51]  I've been doxxed.
[00:02:53]  I have had people assaulting me, chasing after me in government buildings who have tried to hurt me, who have wished death upon me.
[00:03:06]  But I've also received an infinite amount more love.
[00:03:12]  And I'm not chasing validation.
[00:03:19]  I don't care how people feel about this.
[00:03:22]  I just want something to get done.