Lived experience
Where the public story beginsAs a teenager, I was placed on a medical path that permanently altered my body.
Those decisions were made during a period of deep distress, confusion, and vulnerability, and I believe the adults and institutions around me failed to slow down, ask harder questions, or offer real alternatives. What I was told would bring relief instead left lasting physical and emotional consequences.
I speak today because I don't want other young people or families to walk the same path without honest information, real care, and the time they deserve.
Children are not abstractions. They are people whose lives are shaped by the decisions adults make on their behalf.
Faith after detransition
I had left transition. I was still searching for purpose.
My decision to detransition came before my conversion. Faith was not the reason I stopped; it became essential to how I understood what came after.
As I began telling my story, Christians entered my life who challenged me, held me accountable, and showed me that I was loved. Through that community, I came to faith in Jesus Christ. I began to see my body as part of God's creation, my identity as something received rather than invented, and even what I had lost as something God could use in service of others.
Read Chloe's faith interview“Each person should remain in the situation they were in when God called them.”
1 Corinthians 7:18–20 · NIVA passage Chloe has identified as personally significant.
A public calling
Turning experience into serviceMy work focuses on telling the truth about what happens when ideology replaces reality, and when caution is dismissed as harm. I challenge powerful narratives not out of anger, but out of responsibility.
Through public speaking, media, and legislative testimony, I share my story to advocate for accountability, informed consent, and a higher standard of care for vulnerable youth. I believe compassion and truth are not opposites, and that real care requires honesty, restraint, and courage. My Christian faith now grounds that work: the body is not a mistake, truth is not cruelty, and suffering does not have to be wasted.
