Chloe Cole Act federal legislation blocks gender procedures for minors

A Republican lawmaker is teaming up with Chloe Cole, a defunding activist, to push federal legislation that would prevent… Sex-related medical procedures for minors, saying that children are being rushed to receive treatment with life-changing results.

The Chloe Cole Act will be introduced Monday as federal legislation aimed at protecting minors from sex-related medical procedures.

Rep. Bob Onder, Republican of Missouri, who is behind the bill, has a medical degree and is sounding the alarm about the impact sex-related treatments can have on minors. The congressman told Fox News Digital that his bill would not only protect minors from these treatments, but would also give children and parents the right to hold medical professionals accountable in court.

“We know that in the past 15 years, the transgender movement has convinced tens of thousands of boys and girls that they were born into the wrong bodies…and then a series of transgender clinics exploited these children for ideology and profit and permanently damaged the health of these children with the wrong sex hormones, puberty blockers and even disfiguring surgeries,” Onder told Fox News Digital.

Chloe Cole speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on September 20, 2022. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The congressman said the Chloe-Cole Act originates with the president Donald TrumpThe January 2025 order is titled “Protection of Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation.” The order encouraged lawmakers to “work to formulate, propose and strengthen legislation to effectuate the right of private action for children and parents of children whose healthy body parts have been damaged by medical professionals who practice chemical and surgical mutilation.” The order noted that the statutes of limitations in these cases should be “long.”

Cole, who has become a leading advocate for detransiting, told Fox News Digital that the legislation is “a vital step in our mission to ensure that no minor in America ever experiences the kind of permanent, irreparable harm that she did.”

“While we have made great strides in raising awareness and enacting protections in recent years, the fight is far from over. Too many children are still at risk of irreversible harm from puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries forced on them before they can fully understand the consequences,” Cole said in a statement provided exclusively to Fox News Digital.

She added: “We must finish what we started and protect the next generation from these experimental and barbaric treatments.”

Chloe Cole, who was moved after medical procedures, is warning others to wait and seek family support before moving, and shared her story with Fox News Digital. (Fox News Digital)

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A recent legal ruling in New York has given advocates like Cole some hope of holding medical providers accountable. Recently, a jury awarded 22-year-old Fox Varian $2 million in damages after she sued the plastic surgeon who performed a mastectomy on her when she was a teenager. Varian’s lawsuit was also directed at her psychiatrist. New York Times She noted that Varian claimed that a 2019 double mastectomy left her disfigured. Varian, like Cole, was born female and at one point identified as male. It is now undergoing transportation.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has previously expressed support for providing it to minors Sex-related medical treatment.

“The AAP and other major medical organizations — including the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the World Health Organization — support giving transgender teens access to the health care they need.” Statement 2023 From reading AAP. “The AAP opposes any laws or regulations that discriminate against transgender and gender diverse individuals, or that interfere with the doctor-patient relationship.”

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Chloe Cole, who spoke about receiving transitional medical care as a teenager, is greeted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene during a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol on September 20, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Cole celebrated the ruling, and said in a Fox News Digital Editorial: “There are so many other young people like us. Doctors, nurses, and therapists lied to us when we were weak, confused children. They caused irreparable damage to our bodies and minds, making a mockery of the medical profession. They should certainly be held accountable for sacrificing us in the service of extremist transgender ideology.”

In her op-ed, Cole raised a topic that Onder also touched on during his interview with Fox News Digital: the prevalence of medical professionals warning parents that their children could harm themselves or even commit suicide if they are not allowed to undergo these procedures.

“These parents have been lied to,” Onder said. “The words I hear over and over again by Chloe, Luca Hein and others are that their parents were told: ‘Would you rather have a living son or a dead daughter?’ Which means the risk of suicide is close to 100%, but nothing could be further from the truth. That’s an absolute lie,” Onder said.

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The congressman criticized the industry behind sex-related medical procedures, questioning whether children are being pushed into surgeries because of a “sick ideology” or “the desire for profit.”

The congressman added: “Parents are being lied to, and transgender clinics and transgender doctors are making a lot of money. It is truly a despicable development in American medicine. As a doctor, I look forward to the day when we will see that in our rearview mirror, and we will no longer exploit children.”

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