Several women who have been affected by the ongoing LGBT craze testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
One of them was Paula Scanlan, a former University of Pennsylvania swimmer who used to swim alongside infamous transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, a biological male who identifies as a woman.
Recall that Scanlan came forward last month to reveal that she’d been labeled “transphobic” for raising concerns about Thomas’ presence in the female locker room.
Speaking before Congress on Thursday, she went into further detail about the horrifying ordeal she and other young girls had been subjected to because of Thomas.
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MUST WATCH: IWF Spokeswoman @PaulaYScanlan testifies before @JudiciaryGOP about being forced to share a locker room with a male & more.
Paula bravely shares that as a sexual assault survivor, policies that enable males to share private spaces with females harm women like her. pic.twitter.com/ox6WjHCEak
— Independent Women’s Forum (@IWF) July 27, 2023
“My teammates and I were forced to undress in the presence of Lia, a six-feet-four-inch tall biological man fully-intact with male genitalia, 18 times per week. Some girls opted to change in bathroom stalls and others used the family bathroom to avoid this,” she said.
“When we tried to voice our concern to the Athletic Department, we were told that Lia swimming and being in our locker room was non-negotiable and we were offered psychological services to attempt to re-educate us to become comfortable with the idea of undressing in front of a male,” she added.
Scanlan then tried writing an op-ed for the school’s student newspaper about their ordeal, but it got immediately retracted.
“I was given no notice, nor reasoning. Again, I was silenced for my dissenting viewpoint and felt my First Amendment Rights were denied by my university. This is representative of a greater issue, the destruction of free speech. Today any discussion of maintaining the sanctity of women’s spaces is labeled transphobic, bigoted, and hateful,” she explained Thursday.
But what’s truly bigoted, she argued, is “the discrimination against women and the efforts to erase women and our equal opportunities, dignity, and safe spaces.”
“I know women who have lost roster spots and spots on the podium. I know of women with sexual trauma who are adversely impacted by having biological males in their locker room without their consent. And I am one of these women. I was sexually assaulted on June 3, 2016, in a bathroom,” she said.
“I was able to forgive my attacker, but violence against women still exists. … I am extremely grateful for those members [of Congress] who have brought awareness to violence against women in the past, but unfortunately, there is still much to be done,” she added.
Also speaking at the hearing was Chloe Cole, a famous de-transitioner who went into detail about how transitioning into a male at a young age ruined her life.
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“I used to believe that I was born the wrong body, and the adults in my life whom I trusted affirmed my belief and this caused me lifelong, irreversible harm. I speak to you today as a victim of one of the biggest medical scandals in the history of the United States of America,” she began.
“I speak to you in the hope that you will have the courage to bring the scandal to an end and ensure that other vulnerable teenagers, children, and young adults don’t go through what I went through,” she continued.
Cole went on to describe how she began to experience symptoms of gender dysphoria at the age of 12 and how her parents affirmed her feelings and took her to a doctor. She noted at this point that she doesn’t blame her parents for her misfortune — she blames the doctors.
“The gender specialist I was taken to see told my parents that I need to be put on puberty-blocking drugs right away. They asked my parents a simple question: Would you rather have a dead daughter or a living transgender son? The choice was enough for my parents to let their guard down, and in retrospect, I can’t blame them,” she said.
“This is the moment that we all became victims of so-called gender-affirming care. I was-fast tracked onto puberty blockers and then testosterone. The resulting menopausal-like hot flashes made focusing on school impossible. I still get joint pains and weird pops in my back, but they were far worse when I was on the blockers,” she added.
This is the message I want to send to all of the parents of children who have been victimized by this insidious gender ideology. pic.twitter.com/a2kCHN9S3y
— Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChoooCole) July 27, 2023
Soon after, she began testosterone treatments that — sadly — “permanently masculized” much of her body.
“I look in the mirror sometimes, and I feel like a monster. I had a double mastectomy at 15. They tested my amputated breast for cancer, and I was cancer-free, of course. I was perfectly healthy. There was nothing wrong with my still developing body or my breasts other than that, as an insecure teenage girl, I felt awkward about it,” she said.
“After my breasts were taken away from me, the tissue was incinerated. Before I was able to legally drive, I had a huge part of my future womanhood taken from me. I will never be able to breastfeed. I struggled to look at myself in the mirror at times. I still struggle to this day with sexual dysfunction, and I have massive scars across my chest,” she added.
Cole concluded her testimony with a message specifically for Congress.
“I didn’t need to be lied too. I needed compassion. I needed to be loved. I needed to be in therapy to help me work through my issues, not affirm to my delusion that by transforming into a boy, it would solve all my problems. We need to stop telling 12-year-olds that they were born wrong, that they are right to reject their own bodies and feel uncomfortable with their own skin,” she said.
“We need to stop telling children that puberty is an option, that they can choose what kind of puberty they will go through. … Puberty is a rite of passage to adulthood, not a disease to be mitigated. Today, I should be at home with my family celebrating my 19th birthday and instead, I’m making a desperate plea to my elected representatives: learn the lessons from other medical scandals like the opioid crisis to recognize that doctors are human too, and sometimes they are wrong. My childhood was ruined along with thousands of deep transitioners that I know through our networks. This needs to stop,” she added.
Later during the hearing, Rep. Chip Roy bluntly asked Cole, “Do you believe the American healthcare system failed you?”
“On every single level,” she replied.
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This powerful exchange between @ChoooCole & @RepChipRoy captures the dangerous essence of ‘gender affirming care’ in just a few words…
Rep. Roy: “Do you believe the American healthcare system failed you?”
Chloe: “On every single level.” pic.twitter.com/DMs2qMhGDZ
— Independent Women’s Forum (@IWF) July 27, 2023
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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