Chloe Cole

We are going to talk to the doctors ourselves and get to the bottom of this.

And as soon as they did that, the one thing that they were told over and over again was that this was not a choice for me, that it was not a phase.

I was not going to outgrow it, that I was born a boy on some level and it was going to be

They're going to have to choose between letting me persist in this feeling without intervention and eventually become so distressed about my sex that I would become at risk for suicide and take my own life.

Or they could affirm me in this.

They could accept me as their son and allow me to go on this permanent –

medical pathway of treatment.

And they would never have said yes to the latter or any of that in a million years if it weren't for the fact that my life wasn't threatened.

They weren't given any other option.

They weren't given the sane option of let's take a step back.

Let's help her.

Let's see.

Let's assess what is really going on and help her through that while letting her grow up like any other kid.

Right.

And especially at the time, this was almost 10 years ago now that I think about it, when my family and I were going through this.

And the culture has just completely shifted from what it was then.

And there was so much more awareness on the other side of this issue.

But that mantra of...

Living son versus dead daughter that is used by medical professionals to really rope parents in and make them feel like they have no other choice but to do this because the very biggest fear that any mother, any father could have about their child is threatened.

Nobody wants to outlive their own child.