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 re-embraced 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 find something to believe in every day, I was trying to find a purpose. I was trying to find something to live for and something greater to aspire to. I was looking for role models and something to believe in. And, eventually, it was transgenderism and the transgender community that fulfilled all that for me. It swooped in and took me in its clutches. It basically made me my own God. It gave me a false idol to look to,” Cole said.  

“Transgenderism is spiritual sickness,” she continued. “It’s an endless ladder of climbing the next rung, of searching for the next high, which is why I liken it to addiction very often.” 

The only cure to this sickness is turning to God and restoring the name of Christ in the country, Cole said she believes.  

“We cannot choose the way that we are born, whether we are sick or healthy, disabled or abled, male or female,” Cole said.  

After her detransition, Cole felt abandoned by the transgender community, she said. To heal, she started her faith journey. 

“It was one of the roughest parts of my life,” she recalled. 

When Cole started speaking out about her story, many Christian men and women entered her life, such as the late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. 

“[They] were good influences, who held me accountable, who were actively working my life to make me a better person and let me know that I was loved. And I think in many ways God spoke through those people to me,” Cole said. 

“But obviously, it was not the people who saved me, it was Christ,” she continued. 

For Cole, her faith in Jesus Christ is more fulfilling than anything else in her life. It healed her, she said.  

“One of the most important lessons that my faith has taught me is that God doesn’t leave anything untouched. You can lose everything, and you can still be whole, because our identity is not in what we think ourselves to be, it’s in who God has created us to be, and we have to trust in that,” Cole said.  

Cole said she believes that a person can never find true contentment in adopting a transgender identity.  

“God has a plan for every single one of us, but it doesn’t come through chasing our own desires, especially if they go against God’s design and will for us,” Cole said. “Happiness is not going to come from living a dishonest life. It’s not going to come from rejecting the way that you’re made in your mother’s womb.” 

Nonetheless, Cole thinks that every transgender identifying individual should be viewed as a potential detransitioner that there is hope for.  

“I think it [transgenderism] is a complete lie. I think it’s a scam, and I think it is backed only by ideology rooted in falsehood, because we are not designed to change from one sex to another. Sex is a constant thing in our lives, and this is backed up not just by biblical teachings, but by science. No matter how many drugs one person takes, no matter what surgeries they get, no matter how surgeons will mutilate their bodies, it will not achieve that goal of changing sex,” Cole said. 

Cole said that one of her favorite scripture passages is 1 Corinthians 7:18-20:

Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man uncircumcised when he was called? He should not be circumcised. Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commands is what counts. Each person should remain in the situation they were in when God called them. 

“It says circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts,” Cole said. 

When she first read the verse, Cole said she grappled with the loss of her breasts and contemplated whether to undergo reconstruction surgery. 

“It just hurts that a part of me has been taken for me, especially something though so integral to my identity as an adult young woman. I think that there was something about this passage that really stood out to me, and I think it made me think about the fact that it doesn’t matter what has happened to my body, what parts have been taken, or what is still there. It doesn’t matter because I am never going to be whole, breasts or not, without God and without my faith,” Cole said.

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