<p>Chloe Cole, a detransitioner who has been one of the most outspoken advocates against transgender drugs and surgeries for children, celebrated the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision Wednesday to uphold Tennessee&#8217;s law banning them.</p>
<p>The court ruled 6-3 in <em>United States</em> v. <em>Skrmetti</em> that Tennessee’s law prohibiting transgender surgeries, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers for children does not violate the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, a major win for conservative activists and parent groups.</p>
<p>&#8220;<span style="font-weight: 400;">I believe that every child in America deserves the chance to grow up whole and to be given the time to do so, and this is a ruling that is going to allow children that time that I never was given,&#8221; Cole told The Daily Wire.</span></p>
<p>As a teen, Cole identified as male. She has since detransitioned, but she emphasized that she is still affected by the medical transgender interventions she received.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I&#8217;m somebody who went through this as a child, and I&#8217;ve seen just how absolutely horrific it is not to just go through the trend, the process of a medical transition, but to do so while you&#8217;re still developing,&#8221; Cole said. &#8220;I was put on puberty blockers, a chemical castration drug to stop my puberty, and weekly testosterone injections at the age of 13. And at 15 years old, I underwent an irreversible surgery to remove my breasts. Absolutely no child should ever be given the chance to go through any of this because it is abusive, it&#8217;s detrimental to their development, and they deserve better.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a dissent to the court&#8217;s opinion that was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.</p>
<p>&#8220;<span style="font-weight: 400;">I think it&#8217;s just incredible that there were three justices who voted no against reality, against the protection of American children, because it&#8217;s so clear that there is really not any evidence in support of performing these procedures on children under the age of 18,&#8221; Cole said.</span></p>
<p>Cole mentioned the recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hhs-releases-damning-review-of-gender-treatments-for-minors-the-risks-cannot-be-ignored" target="_blank" rel="noopener">review</a> of transgender drugs and surgeries for children by the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as Britain&#8217;s famous <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/weak-evidence-britains-nhs-to-review-all-transgender-treatment-after-major-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cass Review</a>, both of which found that the treatments are not supported by evidence and are risky, especially for children.</p>
<p>Cole said she has been able to bring good out of the harm she suffered as a teen.</p>
<p>&#8220;I<span style="font-weight: 400;">t&#8217;s been an incredibly transformative experience for me to be able to turn what used to be a very traumatic and painful experience into something for the greater good, where I can help other children, help other families from going through what I did, and helping them to pull them out of it, and to be able to use my lived experience to convince lawmakers and these other people in power to do the right thing, to fight for their constituents, to fight for the families who they are taken care of, who they have responsibility over,&#8221; Cole said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I&#8217;m incredibly grateful to the attorney general for taking a stand for Tennessee families,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I&#8217;m grateful for the parents who have stood up for themselves and their communities, and for everybody who has fought alongside me, and for the other detransitioners who have also chosen to stand up to be brave in the face of major backlash and putting everything they have on the line.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>Tennessee lawmakers were inspired to introduce and pass the law following Daily Wire host Matt Walsh’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-could-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-gender-ideology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explosive investigation</a> into Vanderbilt University’s gender clinic.</p>
<p>Tennessee’s law blocks all transgender medical treatments on children, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries. Doctors who offer these treatments risk losing their medical licenses and paying a $25,000 fine. The law also gives children and their families the right to sue if they were harmed by these treatments.</p>
<p>Thursday’s ruling is expected to have broad implications for the other state bans on the same transgender medical interventions for minors. More than 20 states with Republican-led legislatures have similar bans.</p>
<p>Both puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones come with serious health risks. Puberty blockers can <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/in-depth/pubertal-blockers/art-20459075" target="_blank" rel="noopener">affect</a> bone growth and density and cause sexual dysfunction, voice damage, and infertility, among other issues. Cross-sex hormones can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-young-people-in-u-s-have-nearly-doubled-recently-report-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cause</a> infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased risk of both breast and ovarian cancers, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions.</p>
<p>Gender surgeries like phalloplasty, vaginoplasty, and double mastectomy are irreversible and often come with <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/transgender/phalloplasty#risks-and-complications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serious</a> complications.</p>

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