Chloe Cole
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533 appearances
8 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 30 May
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My questions about whether I will be able to have children...
or about the future of my reproductive health and my overall health have gone unanswered.
But that mastectomy ensured that I am never going to be able to nourish whatever children I may have.
Because of the moral failings of my doctors, I forever have lost significant parts of my identity.
as a now adult woman.
I started socially transitioning and identifying as transgender when I was 12 years old, and I was fast-tracked onto medicalization at 13, starting with puberty blockers and testosterone. Before, I went on to get a mastectomy at 15, and I stopped transitioning at 16 when I realized that I had regretted my transition.
The team of the medical professionals that helped me to push me, really, to transition never presented any other options. They said that the rate of regret is less than 1 or 2%. And they even lied to my parents that I would be at risk of suicide were I not allowed to transition. At the age I was, I just wasn't capable of giving informed consent.
It's seriously affected both my mental and physical health. I'm still recovering to this day. I don't know if I'll be able to conceive a child or safely carry to term, and I certainly won't be able to breastfeed.
I mean, it really affirms not only my own experiences with going through the entirety of transition, especially the surgery, but also that of all of my other detransition friends who've also had these surgeries and these other individuals who've reached out to me and have gone through them.
It's almost kind of vindicating that there are studies now that are showing the harms of what these surgeries do, not only physically, but also psychologically. And it really takes down this narrative that these surgeries are beneficial to the patient, that they create better outcomes for mental health and overall quality of life.
I guess the culture around these studies and the research around this was more focused on prevention of cases like mine, prevention of regret, and mitigating the risk of detransition as much as possible.
These researchers, these doctors, these providers don't really ask questions that are geared towards people like me or outcomes like mine of regret, of detransition, of choosing to go out the other way, and of this potentially not being the right path. I certainly was not asked that by my own healthcare providers. I was never followed up with about how I was doing emotionally really.
And when I would talk about my regrets and my negative feelings around the procedures that I'd undergone, especially the surgery, it was kind of treated like it was just a normal outcome or that it just wasn't significant.
Transgenderism is not an innate characteristic that somebody has. But the further that you look into a patient's personal history, any trauma that they might have, especially stemming from their childhood, any attachment issues, any familial issues, this is something that is completely psychological in nature.
And this distress around one's body, around one's sex characteristics, is not just something that occurs in a vacuum.
We need to be giving these people real support with their mental health, not telling them that they are something that they aren't, but also leading them down this path that is going to lead to them being sterilized, losing parts of their health and happiness and their ability to fully live their lives.
And we need to be following a more holistic approach that's focused on the overall picture of their lives and their overall health. and towards their longevity and their future.
I mean, I think that for both sexes, It's a matter of psychiatric illness and distress. But for a lot of the women, I'd say that for a good portion of them, it comes from a place of normal pubertal or adolescent or early adulthood distress that just comes with growing up from a girl into a woman.
When you look at the personal histories of the men especially, they tend to have high rates of having been abused in the past, of having familial difficulties. What we actually need to do for these patients is
first of all, to not affirm these issues that they're having with their identity and not lying to their faces about who they are, not letting them believe that the issue is their body rather than the issues that they have in their life that are making them feel so negatively about their sex around these parts of their bodies.
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