Chloe Cole

But I've become determined to show other people in the same situation.

There's life after transition, and—

No matter what you've been through, whether it is detransitioning or addiction or any point in your life that's made you feel broken, you can use that same story to help other people.

Just put yourself out there because you don't know what you are capable of.

I do.

I had that sense of purpose that I was looking for all along through transitioning that I actually found by using –

the things that I used to not be able to accept about myself to help other people through that same process.

It gets crazy sometimes.

It gets really, really wild.

It's been that way from the very beginning, even before I started speaking publicly.

I was ostracized from the transgender community for the sole fact that I no longer identified as transgender.

And I was looked at as a traitor rather than...

Somebody who needed help.

Right.

Somebody who was hurt by this thing that we were all going through.

And so I knew going into this, people are really going to hate me for this.

But I wasn't deterred.

The first time that I ever spoke in a legislature, I got tripped by a transgender person who was sitting in front of me while I was walking back from my seat.

Physically tripped.

Yes.