The CDC Can Help Those Disfigured by ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

Chloe Cole had a difficult adolescence. As a result, she became a victim of unethical medical experiments, which left her with injuries that can’t be healed.

As Ms. Cole, 21, tells it, she was a tomboy as a child. She didn’t like “girly” things, and when she started puberty early—8 or 9, she has testified—she got unwanted attention from boys. Like many kids in the early to mid-2010s, she spent a lot of time on social media and videogames, which led her to online communities that told her she was really a boy.

She came to believe that she was born in the wrong body. When she was 12, “I came out as transgender in a letter I sat on the dining room table. My parents were immediately concerned. They felt like they needed to get outside help from medical professionals, but this proved to be a mistake.” The doctors pushed Chloe and her parents to accept the lie that she could become a boy.

Read the full op-ed at The Wall Street Journal.