Detransitioner Chloe Cole Scheduled to Speak at University of Iowa

In her battle against so-called “gender-affirming care” (aka sex changes) for children, Chloe Cole said she “will never be silenced until the butchers put the scalpel down.”

Cole, a 19-year-old former transgender boy who detransitioned at 17, has a powerful story. And she plans to tell it next month at the University of Iowa as a guest of the Iowa chapter of Young Americans for Freedom.

Cole (pictured above) is scheduled to speak at 7 p.m., October 16 at the Iowa Memorial Union Black Box Theater.

Expect the militant LGBTQ+ contingent to be there as well, as they were for Iowa YAF’s biggest event to date: conservative commentator and activist Matt Walsh’s April speech on campus. Walsh, whose documentary “What is a Woman?” lampoons the Left’s gender ideology movement, drew a capacity crowd of more than 750 to his April screening and conversation, and reportedly 200 more angry protesters.

The LGBTQ+ mob shouted and spat on conservative students, blocked one of the venue exits, and tossed 20,000 marbles in the path of attendees to slip on for good measure. Later, they blocked the road as vehicles attempted to leave the area.

Jasmyn Jordan, chairwoman of Iowa Young Americans for Liberty, said it was ironic.

“We’ve been called fascists. I’ve been called a racist, even though I’m a black woman,” she told The Iowa Star at the recent Faith & Freedom Coalition town hall of GOP presidential candidates in downtown Des Moines. “I find that ironic because these are the groups that have been hating us, slandering us, spreading misinformation. Those are all the tactics used by all of the facist regimes back in the olden days.”

So much for the tolerant “co-exist” left.

“I feel like if they want to be so open like they say they are, they should let us speak as well,” Jordan said. “Instead, they’e constantly silencing and suppressing any opposing voices.”

Cole’s message, too, has been attacked by the trans-activist movement. Perhaps it’s because the teen is speaking truth to power.

In July, Cole testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, begging Congress to stop gender-reassignment therapies and surgeries for minors. The kind, she says, that ruined her childhood.

“I used to believe that I was born in the wrong body,” Cole said. “And the adults in my life, whom I trusted, affirmed my belief, and this caused me lifelong, irreversible harm.”

As the New York Post reported, Cole’s parents sought advice from specialists who diagnosed their daughter with gender dysphoria and put her on puberty blockers and testosterone therapy starting at age 13.

The interventions were based on “coercion,” according to Cole, who said one specialist she consulted threatened her parents by asking, “Would you rather have a dead daughter or a living transgender son?”

Trans advocates often point to higher rates of suicide among the LGBTQ community as justification for what critics see as the mutilation of children.

When Cole was 15, she underwent a double mastectomy.

“My childhood was ruined, along with thousands of detransitioners that I know through our networks,” Cole told the committee.

“We need to stop telling 12-year-olds that they were born wrong, that they are right to reject their own bodies and feel uncomfortable with their own skin,” she said.

Jordan said Cole has a powerful story to tell a campus that has become more polarizing left.

“We would like to show the perspective of someone who sued to be transgender because, I don’t know, I’ve just noticed so many more people have become trans,” she said.

A study last year by the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute, a think tank that conducts research on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy, estimated the number of teens and young adults in the United States who identify as transgender has doubled in the past five years. There were 1.6 million transgender people 13 and older, according to the study based in large part on health survey data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2017 to 2020.

“Well why do you suppose that is? Could it be that this is a fad, driven by social media, that tells young people — particularly girls — that transgenderism is cool, far more common that it really is, and changing your gender is a snap?” conservative columnist Bethany Mandel wrote in a piece on the rising cases of youth gender dysphoria.

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M.D. Kittle is the National Political Editor for The Star News Network.
Photo “Chloe Cole” by Chloe Cole.