She tried to create herself in her own image — but now she is a changed woman

Trans-pushing doctors talked 13-year-old Chloe Cole’s parents into irreversible chemical and surgical gender rejection procedures. It almost destroyed her.

But Christian counseling saved her life and her identity.

Christian counseling has been banned in California since 2012. When young Chloe Cole, a self-described “weird girl” began struggling with her identity in 2016, California doctors never suggested mental health care let alone Christian counseling, which remains illegal in the Golden State to this day. We led the fight against this counseling ban in 2012, and we will not stop fighting for people like Chloe.

Our continued fight led to the first victory against these counseling bans, which teed the current case before the U.S. Supreme Court. RIGHT NOW, the High Court is deliberating on Chiles v. Salazar, to determine if states and localities can BAN a form of counseling simply because it is Christian in nature and contradicts the LGBTQ “trans” agenda.

Liberty Counsel has submitted a brief in this case, and we need your urgent prayers as well as your direct financial support.

Help us save kids like Chloe by supporting our legal fund today.

Doctors fed Chloe’s parents a loaded question designed to compel them into paying for irreversible gender rejection drugs and surgeries for their daughter in 2017. “Would you rather have a dead daughter or a live son?” the doctors pointedly asked.

The trans-pushing doctors cited a host of statistics provided by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). As of 2025, WPATH’s “statistics” were proven to have been falsified to fit WPATH and Joe Biden’s former Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Richard/Rachel Levine’s personal political motivations.

But Chloe’s parents didn’t know that then. Terrified of the doctors’ threats that their daughter would kill herself if they were not allowed to decimate Chloe’s body, her parents consented to the demands. Doctors at Kaiser Permanente put Chloe on puberty suppressants and cross-sex hormones at age 13. Two years later, doctors sliced Chloe’s healthy breasts from her 15-year-old body.

“As I grew up and I was trying to find something to believe in every day, I was trying to find a purpose,” Chloe said. “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.”

But the drugs, surgeries did not fix Chloe.

“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 most every single way, from my physical health to my emotional and spiritual health,” Chloe said.

Overturn Christian Counseling Bans!

At 16, Chloe, now with a deeper voice, a masculine jawline, and a surgically flattened chest, turned to illicit drugs to sooth her angst. In a moment of clarity, Chloe heard a voice telling her she was lying to herself about being a boy. That moment changed everything.

Chloe asked her parents to fire her “transgender affirming” counselor, and instead find a Christian counselor — not an easy task in California, which had banned Christian change counseling years before. Though effectively agnostic, Chloe’s parents agreed. And it truly saved their daughter’s life.

Now 21, Chloe has embraced her femininity, and she now finds her identity and worth in her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

But that would not have happened without Christian counseling.

Christian change counseling has been banned in over 100 cities and states. Liberty Counsel’s case Otto v. Boca Raton overturned 23 of those bans, but more than 87 remain. Our success teed up Chiles v. Salazar for the U.S. Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments on October 7, 2025. Our briefs are filed, and we await the High Court’s ruling even as we defend other Christian change counselors and their patients in other areas where Christian counseling has been unlawfully banned.

“Children are being raised with a massive God-shaped hole in their lives,” Chloe said. “Transgenderism is spiritual sickness. It’s an endless ladder of climbing the next rung, of searching for the next high.”

Christian counseling healed that hole in Chloe’s heart. Now we are fighting to make this lifesaving therapy legal in every city and state, so that not one more child is permanently disfigured like Chloe Cole.

Help us help the children by supporting our legal fund today, and a New Year Challenge Grant will DOUBLE the impact of your donation.

Asked if she laments the loss of her breasts, Chloe said it initially hurt that someone had taken something so fundamental to her then-undeveloped sense of femininity. But then Chloe gave one of the most powerful testimonies I’ve ever heard from such a young woman. “It doesn’t matter because I am never going to be whole, breasts or not, without God and without my faith,” she said.

“One of the most important lessons that my faith has taught me is that God doesn’t leave anything untouched,” Chloe said. “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.”

Please keep praying for the hundreds of thousands of young people, just like Chloe, who have been deceived by the LGBTQ and the highly profitable industry. And please, pray the U.S. Supreme Court ENDS the bans on Christian counseling.