Chloe Cole

I wrote a letter to them.

And I think they actually were very sensible about it at the time considering like how little information there was that was critical of this and really talked about what this actually does to a developing body.

But they never believed I was transgender.

They never believed that I was a boy.

And they just saw me as their beautiful little tomboyish girl who was going through a rough time.

But they also didn't know what was causing these feelings for me because they – I'm the youngest of five kids.

And they never had to deal with this with any of my older brothers or sisters.

So they thought, okay, this must be something psychological.

There must be something that we don't see.

And we are going to get professional help for this, which I think –

It's a pretty sane idea, but they—I don't think any parent going through this with their kid is going to be prepared for the fact that they are basically going to have to fight against the institutions to really get their children help and keep them out of harm's way.

Yeah, my mom and dad, I would say they're pretty smart people.

My mom is a nurse.

My dad has worked in tech for—

pretty much his whole life and they're not really particularly politically aligned in fact i would argue they're like quite a bit more more more left than i am but that was never something that played a part in how they and how they treated this they just saw their daughter they saw everything for for what it is and they wanted to get me help through this confusing part of my life

Yeah.

Right, and it's only natural that we want to trust these people who have dedicated huge chunks of their lives to studying their area of focus.

They have a degree on the wall, and they're in very important positions.

So we want to be able to trust them, but we're unfortunately at a point in time where our institutions and especially our medical institutions have placed ideology—

over actually caring for patients.