Chloe Cole

And so I thought, OK, well, I'm –

I've always called myself a tomboy, but I've also always felt that maybe there was something else that was different about me.

And the more that I go through puberty and the more I see my breasts developing, the more judgment people give me for it, the more uncomfortable I feel with myself.

So maybe I'm not normal.

Maybe I'm actually a man.

I wasn't suicidal.

No, I wasn't suicidal.

Were you depressed?

I was depressed, but I was determined to find myself a better life.

That was all that I wanted.

But everything started to take a turn.

Once I actually started to go down the medical route of things, that was when I became suicidal for the first time in my life.

I mean –

For the – as long as you're under the jurisdiction of your parents, you still need to have parental sign-off.

But there are states working on laws that make it so that children can get around that.

And I think there are also – in California, children can even run away from their parents and be under the jurisdiction of the state and be able to – excuse me – get a hold of these treatments.

But I – at the time, I felt like my mom and dad deserved to know that I was going through this.

Yeah, I was – well, it was just before my 13th birthday, about a month before.

And I knew that I wouldn't really be able to get help for it if they didn't have any involvement.

So I came clean to them.