‘My breasts were taken away from me (and) the tissue was incinerated.’ Every word of destransitioner Chloe Cole’s testimony to the US Congress was harrowing. But it was her calm, frank description of a doctor’s destruction of her breasts when she was just 15 years old that haunts the mind. Such a sinister violation of the bodily integrity of a teenage girl should rankle the conscience of modern America.
‘Before I was able to legally drive’, she said, they ‘amputated’ my breasts. They were ‘perfectly healthy’, she told a panel of shocked politicians, but still they were cut off and burned, like trash: ‘I had a huge part of my future womanhood taken from me.’
She gave her testimony on her 19th birthday, two weeks ago. Her ‘treatment’ for gender dysphoria started when she was 12. First she was put on puberty-blocking drugs, then she was given testosterone injections. It was at the ripe age of 15 that she was subjected to a double mastectomy.
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