Chloe Cole

In California, these treatments are required to be paid by insurance companies.

And basically all my mom and dad had to pay was like about like $5,800 for co-pays for appointments.

And that was it.

Wow.

So the state is actually in a way incentivizing families to go through this because they're being told, okay, this is life-saving care, so it must be expensive, right?

Oh, well, this completely paid off and it helps my child, so why wouldn't I go on this?

I think the lifetime costs go from anywhere from – it depends on the treatments that you're getting.

Like for the individual surgeries, it can be anywhere from like $5,000 to I think like $50,000.

And so for some people, it's like upwards of like $100,000 to – for those who like go all in on the cosmetics, even like potentially millions.

Yeah.

Which, like, once you've already been castrated, once your sex organs have already been removed and your body can't function on its own, you're dependent on hormone administration for life.

Even if you detransition, a lot of detransitioners will have to – who've already, like, been through sex reassignment will have to –

be on testosterone or estrogen for life because their bodies can no longer produce it in the amount that they need to support themselves.

So I started the drugs while I was in middle school.

And socially, I was at a point in time where people were actually confused.

I told nobody about this in school.

And so it just went from one day I was looking like pretty much any other girl, maybe with shorter hair.

And then over the course of a few weeks, my voice started to deepen.

I started to look more like the opposite sex.

And I just – I opted not to tell anybody about it and just go into high school.