I started to wonder if something was wrong with me, and I often felt like I would be better off as a boy.

And social media introduced this idea that I could be a boy.

This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Wednesday, January 11th. I'm Virginia Allen.

And that was former trans kid, Chloe Cole.

Chloe began telling her friends and family that she was a boy when she was 12 years old after she was introduced to gender identity ideology through social media.

She started taking testosterone and puberty blockers at 13 and had a double mastectomy at 15. At 16, she detransitioned.

Chloe joins me on the show today to share her powerful story of how she got caught up in the transgender movement, how she found her way out.

And why is she traveling across America at the age of 18 to share her story in hopes of helping other young people from going down the same path that she did?

Stay tuned for our conversation after this.

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It is my honor today to welcome to the show former trans kid, Chloe Cole. Chloe, thanks so much for being here.

Thank you for having me.

So Chloe, you're 18 years old. Where did you grow up?

I grew up in the Central Valley, California.

Okay. And do you remember, you know, as we're jumping in, talking about your story, your life, this whole process and the transgender movement, do you remember the first time that you heard that word transgender or started to think, maybe that's me, maybe I identify as someone who's male?

I mean, the first time I heard the word, I must have been like eight or nine. I just like overheard it from the adults, but I never really, I never really thought about it.

Because like, I was just, I was just a kid and I wasn't really, yeah, I didn't know anything about it.

It wasn't until I was about 11 and I started using social media that I started to learn more about it and start to like kind of apply that information to myself and wonder about like my identity and things like that.

Okay. So through social media, you kind of start questioning your own identity.

What, what were you feeling at that point when you were, you know, 11, 12, 13, you're scrolling through social media and you're starting to kind of think about gender identity?

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