The Failures of Affirmative Care: Detransitioner Chloe Cole's Testimony

On Feb 21, 2023 the Florida House Health & Human Services Committee heard testimony from Chloe Cole, a young woman who experienced gender dysphoria as a child and was put through the Affirmative Care treatment pathway - undergoing puberty blockade, cross-sex hormones and bilateral mastectomy.

She has since realized that these therapies were not right for her and that the health care providers who applied the affirmative care model failed in their ethical duties towards her and her family. Their lapses include not exploring underlying comorbidities, using false and coercive statements about the risk of suicide, discounting the concerns of her parents, not adequately assessing her competency to provide informed consent, misrepresenting the evidence base and efficacy of the therapy and failing to provide adequate follow-up care for her upon detransition.

In her testimony she recounts her journey through transition and detransition and calls for a new paradigm of care for gender dysphoric youth which includes guidelines for the management of detransition.

00:00 Intro 00:09 Dysphoria Begins 01:08 Therapy Experience 02:12 Assault and Complications 03:21 Decision for Mastectomy 04:05 Post-op Euphoria and Complications 06:24 Regret and Unanticipated Difficulties 07:27 Maturity and Detransition 08:54 Consequences of Uninformed Consent 10:05 Co-existing Issues 10:47 Complications of Puberty Blockers 11:36 Complications of Testosterone 12:23 Complications of Surgery 13:48 Prevention is only the first step 14:09 Beyond Affirmative Care 15:26 Detransition Care is Non-existent 16:31 New Standards of Care Needed

Source: https://thefloridachannel.org/videos/2-21-23-house-health-human-services-committee/

Due to the low resolution of the source stream, this footage has been upscaled using A.I. facial reconstruction. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6qoZdXBZY4