TUPELO, Miss. — Chloe Cole, perhaps the most well-known “detransitioner” in the U.S., told Congress late last week in an intensely emotional testimony that the lies she was told about switching sexes destroyed her childhood. Cole said that in the throes of her dysphoria, what she really needed was “to be loved,” not persuaded that “by transitioning into a boy, it would solve all my problems” at just 13 years old. Cole said medical and school authorities must stop “telling children puberty is an option,” or that “they can choose what kind of puberty they will go through.” The “barbaric pseudoscience” behind transgenderism is never the answer to normal discomfort with teenage insecurities and should never be a reason for surgically removing body parts, Cole said.

American Family Association (AFA, www.AFA.net) Executive Vice President Ed Vitagliano said the poisonously named pursuit of “gender affirming care” is a raging sickness that can be cured by the One who created the sexes in the first place, not by irreparable surgeries.

“Until the madness of this fever breaks, this heartbreaking story is going to be repeated hundreds, perhaps thousands of times over the next few years,” Vitagliano said. “The gender radicals are creating victims everywhere, but none are so sad as the children who have been pushed and pulled by neurotic adults into maiming and distorting their own bodies. These consequences are permanent, robbing these victims of future fatherhood or motherhood. It is an evil that the world has never seen before; perhaps God will soon dispel the hysteria, and if He does, we can pray that this evil never return.”

For over 40 years, AFA has operated within the mission to inform, equip, and activate individuals to strengthen the moral foundations of American culture and give aid to the church here and abroad in its task of fulfilling the Great Commission.  Founded in 1977, AFA has long been on the front lines of America’s culture war. Today, AFA is one of the largest and most effective pro-family organizations in the country, with nearly a million online supporters and approximately 110,000 subscribers to The Stand (formerly known as the AFA Journal), the ministry’s monthly magazine.  Find AFA Action Alerts here.  In addition, AFA owns and operates nearly 180 radio stations across the country under the American Family Radio banner. 

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