As a girl misled by trans activists, I cheer Supreme Court — and press for national ban

America’s kids are safer today, thanks to the Supreme Court.

Specifically, they’re safer from the radical transgender ideology that endangers their developing minds and bodies.

As someone who was seduced by activist lies when I was just 12 years old, I’m glad the Court is putting kids first.

Thousands of kids will now be protected from disturbing treatments that ruin young lives.

On Wednesday, the Court upheld a Tennessee law that effectively banned so-called “gender-affirming care” for kids.

That includes puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change surgeries.

Another 26 states have passed similar laws — since sex-change treatments for minors are a direct threat to children’s physical and mental health.

Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones have irreversible effects and lifelong health complications.

So do sex-change surgeries, which have the added harm of being invasive.

No kid can truly understand what these treatments are and how they’ll forever change their life.

Transgender activists have already pushed thousands of kids down this dark road.

Do No Harm, where I work, has found that nearly 14,000 kids got sex-change treatments between 2019 and 2023 alone.

The real numbers are likely much higher.

These kids didn’t get medical care — they got the opposite. And far from having their gender “affirmed,” they were told by adults to be something they fundamentally aren’t.

I used to be one of those kids, so I know how awful sex-change treatments truly are.

I tried to change genders starting at age 12.

Like so many young girls, puberty was hard for me, and I found myself unhappy and confused.

This is the emotion that transgender activists prey upon, and I was exposed to their lies online.

They dug in deep, and led me to make decisions that I never should have been allowed to make.

When I first started down this road, doctors and nurses told me I could go back.

I believed them when they put me on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

Before long, I didn’t recognize my own face in the mirror.

I still believed the doctors when they told me to get a double mastectomy.

To this day, I have wounds where my breasts used to be.

Not just scars.

Wounds that bleed.

If I ever have kids — and I’m not sure I can — I’ll never be able to breastfeed.

The doctors made sure of that.

Those same doctors refused to see me once I said I regretted it.

By the time I realized I’d made a mistake, it was too late.

I’m now 20 years old and I’ve devoted my life to fighting the same transgender activists who’ve hurt me so much.

And I can attest that the single most important thing to do is ban the sex-change treatments that I was subjected to.

If these dangerous treatments are off the table, kids will be able to develop naturally.

Many who are confused about their gender will grow out of it as they age.

That’s how adolescence works.

What doesn’t work is pumping kids full of drugs and cutting off their sexual organs.

The Supreme Court has now confirmed that states can protect kids from these treatments.

This is a praiseworthy step.

But it’s not the final one.

Congress needs to pass — and President Trump needs to sign — a federal law that at the very least ends all federal funding for child sex-change treatments.

The House passed a version of this policy in the “Big Beautiful Bill,” and the Senate needs to keep it.

No kid should ever be pushed down the same road as me.

As soon as sex-change treatments for children are permanently banned from coast to coast, America’s kids will truly be safe.

Chloe Cole is the patient advocate at Do No Harm.