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Detransitioner Chloe Cole Embraces God and the Wholeness He Brings

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29.12.2025

When Chloe Cole’s brother shared the Gospel with her while she identified as a transgender male, she thought he hated her. Now, six years later, Cole has reembraced her God-given female identity and calls herself a Christian.

“As I’ve matured in the world and in my faith, I have realized that he pushed back out of love,” Cole told The Daily Signal. “He was fighting for me and not against me, and he wanted me to be saved just as he had. He wanted to extend the grace that God had given him in his life to me because he was my older brother and he loved me, and he wanted good things for me.” 

From the ages of 12-16, Cole tried to change her identity from female to male. She even had a double mastectomy at 15 to remove both of her breasts.  

“Over the course of my transition, I realized that it was not actually making me happy, that it was actually tearing down my life in almost every single way, from my physical health to my emotional and spiritual health,” Cole told The Daily Signal.  

Before and during her “transition,” Cole did not understand the Gospel, she said. She grew up in an agonistic family that had stopped attending church when she was in kindergarten. 

“Children are being raised with a massive God-shaped hole in their lives,” she said. Cole said that Gen Z’s breakdown of morals, family, and faith is eroding the culture.  

“As I grew up and I was trying to........

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