A 19-year-old woman named Chloe Cole, who was medically transitioned as a minor and has since detransitioned, was censored by Instagram over the weekend.
It’s unclear why Cole was censored, but the teen captioned a photo of her bio on the social media platform, wherein she identifies herself as a detranstioner.
Cole’s bio notes that she’s “female” with two X chromosomes and a “former trans kid.” It also says that she was started on testosterone and puberty blockers at age 13, underwent a double mastectomy at 15, and finally detranstioned at 16.
“The big tech overlords think I’m too cute to be on here,” Cole quipped, captioning messages from Instagram, which is owned by Meta.
“Your account cannot be shown to non-followers,” the social media platform said, according to the screenshots. “Your account activity may not follow our Recommendations Guidelines.”
“What this means: Your account and content won’t appear in places like Explore, Search, Suggested Users, Reels, and Feed Recommendations,” the message continued.
Under Instagrams’s “guidelines on violence,” it reads as follows: “Our Recommendations Guidelines help promote content that fosters a safe community on Instagram. We try not to recommend content or accounts that show violence, such as people fighting. This includes: All accompanying text or imagery that encourage violence, include hashtags, terms, and bio.”
Cole is notably suing the Kaiser Permanente healthcare system for her transgender treatment. Recently testifying before Congress, the teenager pleaded with lawmakers to let her story by the “final warning.”
“Doctors are human, too, and sometimes they are wrong,” she said before Congress. “My childhood was ruined – along with thousands of de-transitioners that I know through our networks – this needs to stop. You alone can stop it. Enough children have already been victimized by this barbaric pseudoscience; please let me be your final warning.”
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