BY CHLOE COLE AND THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY | MAY 17, 2026
From Chloe Cole’s fundraising email for her upcoming trial against Kaiser Permanente.
Patriot,
Before I tell you my story, I want to read you the lies.
Not my opinion about what happened to me.
Not my interpretation.
The specific, verifiable, documented lies that were told — to my parents, to me, and to the public — by the doctors and institutions that built a medical industry out of treating children like me.
I know these lies intimately.
Not because I read about them in a study. Not because someone told me they existed.
Because every single one of them was told to me.
My name is Chloe Cole. I am a detransitioner. I am 21 years old. And on April 5, 2027, I am taking Kaiser Foundation Hospitals to trial.
Here is the case.
LIE #1: “Your child will attempt suicide without immediate medical intervention.”
I was 12 years old when a gender specialist looked at my parents and said that if they didn’t put me on a medical path, I would be at risk of suicide.
I was not suicidal.
I was a confused girl who had started puberty early, didn’t fit in with the girls in her class, and didn’t know why she felt so out of place. I was struggling. I was not in crisis.
The suicide threat was the mechanism. It was the tool used to override my parents’ hesitation, override the time they needed to think, override every instinct that told them to slow down.
It was a lie told to frightened parents by a credentialed professional in a clinical setting.
And it worked.
LIE #2: “This treatment is reversible. You can always stop.”
At 13, I began testosterone injections.
I will likely have medical complications for the rest of my life. The body that was mine before I was old enough to understand what I was doing is now gone.
My fertility is still unknown.
There was no reversibility. There never was.
The word “reversible” was used to deceive and hide the truth about an irreversible medical intervention on a child.
That is not medicine. That is a lie with a syringe behind it.
LIE #3: “Surgery is the appropriate next step for a patient at this stage.”
At 15, a surgeon at a Kaiser Foundation Hospital facility removed my breasts.
I was a child. I didn’t understand what breastfeeding was. I didn’t understand what that part of my future meant. I didn’t understand what nerve damage was, or that it was a documented and expected outcome of the procedure.
No one at that facility stopped to ask whether I might change my mind. No one slowed down. It was just assumed that I was actually a boy born in the “wrong body.”
The tissue removed in that operating room does not grow back. There is no reversal.
The skin grafts from my surgery failed two years later. I was 17. I still manage the complications today.
The doctors who performed that surgery have not once reached out to help.
They called it appropriate care. I call it what it was.
LIE #4: “Children who are affirmed have better mental health outcomes.”
At 16 — after the testosterone injections, after the surgery, after clinical language and the assurances — I became suicidal for the first time.
The nightmare the doctors told my parents they were preventing?
They caused it.
I am not a statistic. I am a person. But I am also not alone. Detransitioners across this country describe the same sequence: the assurances, the interventions, the moment of realization, and then the crash that the clinics never prepared them for — and never took responsibility for.
The studies the gender industry cites to support “affirmation” are now being retracted, revised, and challenged in courts and legislatures across the world.
The evidence was always weaker than the language was confident.
LIE #5: “This was the patient’s choice.”
A child cannot consent to a procedure she does not understand, after a process designed to ensure she would agree, following years of medical and social conditioning that made any other outcome feel like death.
I was coerced. They put my parents under duress. Now what happened to me is a question for a jury.
On April 5, 2027, that jury will convene.
Patriot, I’ve given you the case.
Five lies. Told to a child and her parents by credentialed professionals inside a licensed American hospital.
Told in a language designed to sound like medicine.
Documented in records that will be entered into evidence.
On April 5, 2027, twelve Americans will sit in a California courtroom and hear all of it.
They will hear what doctors did to me. What the doctors said. And what real medical experts think about my doctors’ “treatment” of me.
They will deliver a verdict.
You are the reason that case is funded.
You are the reason the lawyers are prepared.
You are the reason the witnesses are ready.
You are the reason those twelve people get to hear the truth.
The lies have been read into the record
Now it’s time to deliver the verdict.
Chloe Cole
On behalf of the Center for American Liberty
From the fundraising website for her upcoming trial against Kaiser Permanente.
Please help fund my trial today!
My name is Chloe Cole. I’m a detransitioner. And I have a trial date.
At 12, a doctor told my parents I was at risk of suicide without immediate treatment. I wasn’t suicidal.
At 13, I started testosterone injections I was told were reversible. They weren’t.
At 15, a surgeon at a Kaiser facility removed my breasts before I was old enough to fully understand and give informed consent.
At 16 — after all of it — I became suicidal for the first time. The outcome they promised to prevent.
I still manage complications from that surgery today. The doctors have never once reached out.
There was no jury. No verdict. No accountability. Until now.
The Center for American Liberty took my case. Kaiser tried secret arbitration. The courts said no. On January 30, 2026, the first detransitioner malpractice jury in American history sided with us.
My trial is next. April 5, 2027.
You’ve read the lies. Help get them in front of a jury.
Please give any amount you can to fuel the legal battle ahead.
The Center for American Liberty is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Your gift is tax-deductible.
The link to her online fundraiser:
https://anedot.libertycenter.org/chloe-cole-legal-battle?utm_term=PAR104158&utm_medium=email&utm_source=hardask_acq&utm_campaign=cfal_2026_apr_chloe_cole&exitIntent=true
Last Updated on May 17, 2026 by Real KBrett