Chloe Cole

It was kind of an awkward role to be in considering I was trying to pass myself off as a guy.

So I just – I never got myself involved with men during that point in time or anybody because I knew – I had this feeling of like –

I mean I'm a little young to be getting into this kind of thing and I also – I feel like I'm going to disappoint somebody if they expect that I'm one thing and I actually have the body of the other and I'm not going to put that on somebody else.

But –

It was actually when I realized that this was all stuff that I was being put through too young and that one day I wanted to become a mother.

I wanted to become a wife and have children of my own naturally.

And I had lost a significant part of my sexuality before I even had my first kiss, before I could even drive a car.

That made me go...

This needs to end now.

This is something that's taking away adult parts of my life before I've even grown up yet.

It was just after my sophomore year, yeah.

My mom and dad were actually very critical.

They were very critical towards the doctors and when they would suggest medical treatment.

But every single time they would bring up their concerns, they weren't just ignored, but they were told –

It's life or death for your kid.

If you don't do this for them, she is going to, if you don't do this for her, she's going to die.

I mean, that, that fear can override, I think any common sense for anybody.

And I don't blame my mom and dad.

But the way they went about it and they described it in almost very simplified detail to me to make it more palatable for a 15-year-old going into surgery.

And what they told me they were going to do was, okay, we are going to make an incision into each breast and then we're going to take the tissue out and leave a little bit in for contouring purposes.