Chloe Cole

I want to be on to the next thing already and be –

who I've been told I am supposed to be.

And about a month after that, I got my first shot of testosterone and I took injections every week for about three, almost three and a half years.

And over time, I started to look more and more like a young man.

My facial structure, my bone structure started to become a little bit more chiseled.

I started to develop a lot more muscle.

I started developing even like a little bit of facial hair and like just the hair everywhere on my body, like from my legs to my arms, even on the top of my head.

My eyebrows just became like so much thicker.

I've always had like very naturally thin hair.

So it was kind of an exciting change actually.

And it was like, OK, so I'm starting to look like a young man.

My voice is getting really deep.

My voice sounds pretty feminine now, I think.

But at a certain point in time, I actually had a deeper voice than almost all my male peers.

It was kind of impressive, actually.

I mean puberty is the only process through which a child can fully mature into an adult not just physically and sexually but also psychologically and socially.

It's arguably one of the most important periods of development and identity formation and we're taking that away from these children who are, by the way, generally perfectly physically healthy and the issue is not their body but a psychological issue that they're experiencing.

We're using physical treatments for that.

So I was on the blockers for about a year alongside testosterone and it was just – they put me on it for the purpose of clearing out my hormones and making way for the new exogenous male hormones.

So –