De-Transitioned Teen Chloe Cole Sues Fifteen Of Her Doctors For Medical Malpractice

As Milton Friedman once observed, the way to change things isn't to try to make perfect people, it's to create a system that encourages flawed people do the right thing.

Or penalizes flawed people from cutting off the sex organs of children.

'We will shut down these barbaric practices': De-transitioned teen, 18, who had a double mastectomy aged 15 SUES doctors who operated on her and 'told parents she was suicide risk'

Chloe Cole said that she launched legal action to hold the doctors 'accountable'

The 18-year-old told how she is 'devastated' by operation to remove her breasts

She transitioned to a male aged 13 after telling her parents she was 'distressed'

She had the operation when she was just 15, before de-transitioning a year later

By JAMES GANT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

She detransitioned a year later. So I guess their prognosis that she was really a "a boy inside and always had been" wasn't well-founded.

A de-transitioned teenager who had a double mastectomy aged 15 has revealed she is suing the surgeons who operated on her.

Chloe Cole said she launched legal action against the doctors to hold them 'accountable' for removing her breasts and pumping her full of puberty blockers.

The 18-year-old also told how she was 'devastated' by the operation and fears she will now never be able to bear children.

She transitioned to a male aged 13 after telling her parents she was 'distressed' with her gender and consulting medical professionals.

Cole, from Central Valley in California, had the life-changing surgery when she was just 15, before regretting it and de-transitioning a year later.

Now she said she was suing the doctors who performed on her and slammed them for letting a child make such a important decision.

She told Fox News' Tucker Carlson: 'They were concerned, and they wanted what was best for me.

No, Daily Mail, she said that about her parents, not her doctors.

But they weren't really sure what to do with me, so they sought professional help and from then on, I was basically referred [to] in my gender identity without any questioning from any medical professionals, and they pushed transitioning as the way to treat gender dysphoria.'

She told how she was devastated about losing her breasts and was concerned she would never be able to have children.

Cole said: 'As an adult, I will never be able to breast-feed whatever children I will have.

'I don't even know if, because I was put on puberty blockers and testosterone at only 13 years old, I don't know if I'll be able to conceive a child naturally.

'I made an adult decision as a child.' She said suing the doctors was an attempt to stop the practice from being done on other children.

She continued: 'I want to hold the adults that put me in harm's way accountable because what happened to me is horrible.

'But it also didn't only happen to me, that's the worst part. It's happening to children all over the U.S., all over the West, and it's spreading all over the world.

'I want to be able to create a precedent for other people who have been in my situation to find justice themselves.'

Obviously the doctors will have had her sign a dozen vague informed consent forms about possible complications, which most people don't read, and which are often downplayed verbally. And we know a lot of these doctors are so determined to transition any child that comes into their office, a lot of them probably do seriously downplay the risks and verbally tell patients that the list of complications is more theoretical than real.

But even with that semi-informed consent-- she's a child, and a child's consent might not hold up in court.

posted by Ace at 06:20 PM

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