Brigham Tomco covers Utah’s congressional delegation for the national politics team at the Deseret News. A Utah native, Brigham studied journalism and philosophy at Brigham Young University. He enjoys podcasts, historical nonfiction and going to the park with his wife and two boys.
SALT LAKE CITY — The realization came slowly, before it became undeniable.Chloe Cole sat in her California home watching a high school psychology course on a screen.The lesson, she remembers, centered on the importance of breastfeeding for a baby's health.
That is when Chloe said she looked down at her scars. The 16-year-old high school junior had received a radical double mastectomy to remove her breasts the year before.And the hormonal transgender treatments she had received since age 13 threatened a future with her own children."That was the main reason, actually, why I ended up detransitioning," Cole, who is now 21, told the Deseret News."I realized that I wanted to become a mother one day, and this would very possibly bar me from that."Over the past five years, Cole has become the public face of a culture war debate, calling for a permanent ban on hormone therapy for minors because she says it prescribes experimental treatments that are not reversible.Three years after speaking in favor of Utah's ban on sex-reassignment surgeries for minors, Cole returned to Utah on Tuesday to say that she believes the debate on "gender-affirming care" is over, and to speak on behalf of HB174. Chloe Cole enters a House Health and Human Services Committee meeting at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Tuesday. Are child transgender treatments legal?The bill, sponsored by Rep. Rex Shipp, R-Cedar City, would permanently prohibit health care providers from prescribing hormonal transgender treatment, such as cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers, to minors.The bill builds on SB16, a law passed in 2023 that banned sex-reassignment surgeries for minors, put an indefinite pause on hormonal transgender treatments and ordered a review of medical evidence to inform future policies.The moratorium on hormonal transgender treatments established by SB16 did not apply to minors already receiving treatments who were diagnosed with gender dysphoria before the passage of the bill on Jan. 27, 2023.HB174 would allow doctors to continue prescribing hormonal transgender treatments to those exempted from the initial moratorium until Jan. 28, 2027. Any violation of the law would be classified as "unprofessional conduct."On Tuesday, HB174 advanced from the state House Health and Human Services Committee with a 10-3 vote after more than an hour of at times contentious public comment and presentations from medical professi
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