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An American teenager who detransitioned has given powerful testimony of her experience with gender dysphoria outside the White House.
Sadly, it makes for grim reading.
Over the past decade there has been as high as a four thousand percent increase in children being referred to so-called gender clinics across the United States.
I was one of these children.
My name is Chloe Cole and I'm an 18 year old former transgender child. I transitioned from the age of 12 up until 16 when I realised all was a lie. My story is a cautionary tale. Children and parents across the country have been caught off guard by gender ideology.
Discussions about gender transgenderism and gender identity went from being a relatively benign social oddity to a doctrine that has invaded nearly every academic medical and educational institution seemingly overnight.
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I believe Americans deserve to know the truth about this radical and perverse ideology marketed as necessary and life-saving health care.
I was only 12 years old when I told my parents that I was a boy. Like many parents in that situation they didn't have a clue what to do. They were scared and desperate for answers.
They wanted what every parent wants for their child. For me to be okay and thrive at 13 years old.
On the advice of so-called medical professionals I was put on puberty blocking medication and only a month later I was given my first testosterone injection.
The gender clinic presented my parents with the classic false dichotomy regarding children with gender dysphoria: would you rather have a dead daughter or a living son?
Given these options what loving parent wouldn't choose to transition their child?
Scared for my life my parents were prepared to sign anything the doctors asked. This was not informed consent it was a decision forced under extreme duress.
At 15, I went under the knife for a radical double mastectomy - the kind that breast cancer patients get.
This was after I was sexually assaulted at school by a male student.
I just told myself to man up but I lived my life in constant hatred of my breasts.
I started binding which deformed my breasts as well as my rib cage.
I was afraid and I couldn't wait to finally protect my body from the threat of further molestation.
At 16, I finally realised what happened to me that I had made a huge mistake. I realised the beauty of motherhood was stolen from me by medical professionals who my family entrusted me to.
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No child deserves to suffer under the knife of a gender-affirming surgeon.
America's children - all children - deserve better.
And so do Australian children. Please send a quick message to the PM and the Health Minister calling for an end to harmful gender treatments.
Peter Downie
National Director