Some critics have labeled detransitioner Chloe Cole as a right-wing icon. According to her, she’s anything but. In this article written by her, Cole addresses a recent hit piece.

From The Daily Wire. I’m a survivor of a medical gender transition that began when I was only 12-years-old. I travel the country sharing my story in hopes of saving other children from the horrors of the “gender-affirming care” I received. I advocate before state and federal governments to pass laws that will prevent kids from accessing these mutilating surgeries and drugs.

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According to a recent hit piece from the Los Angeles Times, this simply makes me a “right-wing icon.” The rhetoric used in their so-called journalism is not only wrong but flat out dangerous.

Let me be clear: I am not a pawn for a particular politician or party. I never wanted to be famous, especially not as a result of the most traumatic years of my life. I am sharing that trauma — which I’m still working through to this day — and partnering with those who want to pass laws that protect kids from being coerced into dangerous and unnecessary procedures.

I know this coercion firsthand. At 12-years-old, I was struggling with several mental health problems. I spent hours and hours on social media listening to transgender activists who convinced me that I must have been born in the wrong body. …

I went to doctors who took advantage of my youth and naivety. Rather than treat my numerous comorbidities with mental health counseling, they handed me — at age 12 — a prescription pad for permanent pharmaceutical and surgical intervention. No one warned me about the lifelong ramifications of this decision. No one told me about the ever-growing mountain of evidence undermining the pro-transition propaganda I was being bombarded with.

It’s the same evidence that the LA Times irresponsibly dismissed. …

I urge those who would leap to conclusions about me to truly listen to my story. Think about the teenage girls you know and ask yourself if you would want this for them.

My story is important. All detransitioners’ stories are important.

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(Excerpt from The Daily Wire. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Chloe Cole, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=149630062)