Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026, the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing to discuss the dangers of irreversible gender transition procedures on minors. Our sister organization, Family Research Council, submitted an official statement at the hearing in support of protections for minors from these dangerous and irreversible procedures. The committee heard testimony from twenty-one-year-old Chloe Cole, who shared her personal story and the devastating physical, mental, and emotional impacts she experienced as a confused minor who underwent gender transition procedures, starting at age twelve, before beginning to “detransition” later in her teens.
“Despite what the doctors told me,” she told the senators, “I was not a sick boy trapped in a girl’s body. I was a distressed girl. But the medical system treated my body as the problem.”
Only after suffering a double mastectomy at age 15 did Chloe begin to understand what had been done to her. Despite living with the lifelong physical repercussions of her attempt to “transition,” she has made it her mission to draw attention to the evil of gender transition procedures, especially when done to minors.
Although President Trump signed executive orders in the early days of his second term to protect kids from the transgender agenda — defining sex as immutable from conception, cutting federal funding for gender transition interventions, and encouraging legal action against providers peddling these devastating “therapies” — federal legislation is needed to make sure the next liberal president doesn’t undo his work.
Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) has been engaged in the fight to guard minors against the harms of gender transition procedures since 2018. Nearly ten years ago, experts from Family Research Council, in cooperation with other allied organizations, put forth model legislation to protect minors from gender transition procedures, and FRC Action worked to mobilize grassroots support for this important legislation in the states. In 2020, courageous legislators in Arkansas first introduced the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act and, buoyed by FRC Action and the Arkansas Family Council, managed to overcome a veto by then-Governor Asa Hutchinson to pass the SAFE Act into law. A year later, FRC Action’s three-year investment into Alabama paid off as they became the second state to pass similar legislation protecting minors. Today, 27 states and Puerto Rico have the SAFE Act, or similar legislation, on the books.
Now it’s time for Congress to act.
Congressman Bob Onder (R-Mo.) understands the need for congressional action to protect kids and has introduced the Chloe Cole Act in the House to do just that. Earlier this week on Washington Watch, he told me the Chloe Cole Act is “[d]esigned to hold those accountable who commit chemical or surgical mutilation on our children, and to end that horrific practice.” Onder is a physician, and his commitment to the bedrock principles of medicine reflects that. “I am just looking forward to protecting once and for all these vulnerable children.”
I am deeply thankful for Dr. Onder’s leadership in getting the House to address the transgender ideology that is harming and often sterilizing our children. Our team has worked tirelessly for this cause, and we will continue to work to see Congress enact this important bill.
But we can’t do it alone. It’s only with your help and by the grace of God that we can accomplish our goal.
We’ve seen it time and time again.
Last year, we saw God move in the Supreme Court’s Skrmetti decision, which allowed Tennessee’s version of the SAFE Act to go into effect. In the run up to that Supreme Court decision, FRC Action launched a prayer pledge that garnered thousands of signatures on behalf of the states’ right to protect minors. Praise God, our prayers were heard, and now over half the states in the nation are guarding children against gender transition procedures!
We’ve also leveraged our large grassroots list to drive messages of support for the Chloe Cole Act to Congress with an action alert that to date has generated over 47,000 messages to members of Congress, calling on them to support this crucial bill.
But the fight isn’t over yet.
For three decades, FRC Action has been at the tip of the spear, used by God to fight against everything from big abortion to attempts to redefine marriage to, more recently, the gender ideology that threatens our children.
Will you stand with FRC Action as we seek to get the Chloe Cole Act passed into law?
With your support, we can keep leveraging our networks and partnerships to support pro-faith, family, and freedom candidates and the passage of policies that reflect a biblical worldview.
Bryan, the medical institutions that used to trumpet the safety and necessity of “gender affirming care” are running scared. Following a landmark case that awarded a child victim a $2 million settlement against the gender practitioners, medical institutions and associations are slowly beginning to admit what we’ve always known: children cannot adequately consent to sterilization or the removal of their healthy body parts. Parents deserve to know the truth, and kids deserve to be protected. Ideology must not override the truth.
“There is no such thing as a child being born in the wrong body,” Chloe told senators, “but there are physicians and medical bodies who prey on the confusion of perfectly healthy young boys and girls.” Now is the time for Congress to protect minors like Chloe and pass the Chloe Cole Act.
We’ve been in the fight for years, and we’ve already seen God move in mighty ways on behalf of vulnerable kids, but we are not done. We need your support to get Congress to act. FRC Action is standing up for children at risk of these harmful and often irreversible gender transition procedures. Will you stand with us today?
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