“Increasingly, detransitioners are coming forward to tell their stories and warn of the physical and psychological dangers of so-called gender transitioning,” said Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., president of the Ruth Institute.
Chloe Cole, a California teen who formerly identified as “transgender,” recently testified at a Florida hearing on a rule that would allow the state to restrict Medicaid funding for drugs and procedures that interfere with the natural functioning of the body.
Now 17, Cole, who decided she was “transgender” at 12 and underwent a double mastectomy at 15, told the hearing, “I was unknowingly physically cutting off my true self from my body, irreversibly and painfully.”
“I don’t know if I’ll be able to fully carry a child, and I might be at increased risk for certain cancers, mainly cervical cancer,” Cole testified. “And because I do not have breasts… I’m not able to breastfeed whatever future children I have.”
Morse commented: “This courageous young woman is helping to expose the dangers of these radical procedures. The law and common sense considers a 15-year-old too young to consume alcohol. Neither the law nor any decent person should consider her old enough to choose to have her breasts cut off.”
“An extremist movement is promoting these unnatural interventions. A segment of the medical/pharmaceutical industry benefits from having lifelong customers who need constant chemical intervention to maintain the fiction that they have changed the sex of their bodies,” Morse charged.
“Transgenderism is a dangerous lie,” Morse remarked. “Whatever sex you were born, you will be for the rest of your life. No amount of hormone therapy or surgical intervention will alter that reality.”
“Allied with individuals like Walt Heyer, a man who identified as a transgender woman for eight years, the Ruth Institute is working to expose one of the most dangerous movements in our society,” Morse said.
The Ruth Institute awarded Mr. Heyer its “Public Witness of the Year Award” at its 2022 Summit for Survivors of the Sexual Revolution.
“Our Transgender Resource Center tells the stories of people like Miss Cole, and provides research to refute the seductive lies about gender,” Morse noted.
“I can only echo the words of Chloe Cole, who urges: ‘Do not transition your kids… If you are considering transitioning, please wait until you are a fully developed adult. Transitioning can damage your body and mind in ways that we may not fully understand.’”
About the Ruth Institute
The Ruth Institute is a global non-profit organization, leading an international interfaith coalition to defend the family and build a civilization of love.
Jennifer Roback Morse has a Ph.D. in economics and has taught at Yale and George Mason University. She is the author of The Sexual State and Love and Economics – It Takes a Family to Raise a Village.
To get more information or schedule an interview with Dr. Morse, contact media@ruthinstitute.org.
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