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Chloe Cole’s wrenching testimony at a Department of Health and Human Services event should wake every parent up: a young woman who began medical transition as a child is now describing lifelong complications and calling for an end to these dangerous experiments on minors. Cole, who has publicly recounted puberty blockers, testosterone treatment and a double mastectomy as a teenager, told officials and reporters that she is still grieving the irreversible harm done to her body and life.
Her story is not an outlier — it’s a warning. Cole says her fertility is unknown, she endures daily care for failed skin grafts, and her medical team failed to explore underlying mental-health issues before pushing irreversible interventions on a developing child. Those details, painfully reported by multiple outlets, expose the moral bankruptcy of hospitals and clinicians who rushed to affirm ideology over prudence.
That is precisely why the Trump administration’s HHS is moving to strip federal funding from providers who participate in gender-transition procedures for minors — a commonsense step to stop taxpayer dollars from underwriting irreversible harm to children. The proposed rules would affect Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP participation and represent a much-needed rollback of the woke medical-industrial complex that has been targeting vulnerable kids. Critics will howl, but protecting minors from life-altering, experimental treatments should not be controversial.
Make no mistake: this fight is political because the left made it political. The same institutions that recently celebrated radical gender ideology are now scrambling to defend practices that parents and many physicians once viewed as unthinkable. The administration’s actions, and Chloe Cole’s testimony supporting them, put the debate where it belongs — on the side of common sense, basic biology and the rights of families to keep their children whole.
Conservatives should not relent after this first step. Chloe Cole herself has warned that the battle isn’t over and urged continued action to remove gender ideology from pediatric medicine and schools. Lawmakers at the federal and state level must keep pushing legislation to ban chemical and surgical interventions for minors and to ensure victims can seek justice and accountability.
For hardworking American parents, Chloe’s testimony is both heartbreaking and galvanizing. We must stand with families, demand transparency from hospitals, and insist that children be given time, therapy and love — not irreversible procedures — while their brains and bodies finish developing. If conservatives deliver on protecting kids from this abuse, we’ll prove our party remains the last line of defense between American children and an ideology that would sacrifice them for political fashion.
