Two teen girls who once identified as transgender — and went so far as to take hormones and undergo gender surgery — spoke out Tuesday in favor of a Louisiana bill that would ban sex change surgeries for minors in the state.

The remarks from both girls came in testimony before the Louisiana House Health and Welfare Committee amid discussions on House Bill 463, which would prohibit "certain procedures to alter the sex of a minor child."

"Today is special because it marks the one-year anniversary of me speaking out on my experiences of enduring the worst medical scandal in American history," said Chloe Cole, 18. "What is so scary about a de-transitioner? Is it the fact that we lend proof to the idea that gender-affirming care is a complete scam? Is it because it makes it harder to ignore institutionally-backed medical abuse carried out on children? Can you no longer turn a blind eye to it in favor of the medical lobbyists that stand between you and your moral compass?"

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"I exist. I will speak despite your best efforts," added Cole, who began transitioning when she was 13.

"Doctors medicalized me, starting puberty blockers and testosterone at the 13-years-old," she said. "I didn't know what things like cervixes or ovulation were, or how the full menstrual cycle worked yet, but I was cleared by adults who had a full understanding of such things to make a decision that would affect my fertility, the ongoing development of my sexual organs, and the complex process unique to me as a woman."

Cole said she was "given a double mastectomy" in the "name of political ideology" at the age of 15.

Following the operation, Cole said medical professionals were not receptive to her concerns and complications.

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"When I went to my surgeon to get help for my complications — like fluid leaking out of my areola grafts — I got dismissed in a Zoom call with advice that gave me a skin infection. Try to ignore that. You can't," Cole said. "When you tend to ignore that, you're ignoring the thousands of de-transitioners I've personally corresponded with."

Describing the rapid change, Cole said her parents "weren't given any other option" for their daughter than a gender transition. Cole also noted in her testimony that she "wasn't suicidal" until after she started receiving gender-reassignment treatments.

Asked whether she still experiences gender dysphoria, which the American Psychiatric Association describes as "psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one’s sex assigned at birth and one’s gender identity," Cole responded: "Yes. I've just lived in my body and accepted things as they are."

The bill up for debate in Louisiana was authored by Republican state Rep. Michael Firment, who represents the state's 22nd House District.

Another individual who offered testimony to the committee on Tuesday was a young woman named Prisha, who told lawmakers that she now lives in a "painful body that no longer belongs to me" after transitioning.

"My hatred for myself and fear of revictimization was exploited by the adults around me, who convinced me that I needed drugs and surgeries to be myself," Prisha said. "At 17, high doses of testosterone were injected into my anorexic body, and one year later my healthy breasts were removed. Testosterone had severe and irreversible impacts that I will live with for the rest of my life."

Louisiana House Bill 463, also known as the "Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act," bans all gender transition medical care for anyone under 18.

The mother of one of the three soldiers killed last week when two U.S. Army helicopters collided in a remote part of Alaska said her son loved his country and his family and lifted others up.

"Family was everything to him," Stacie Weaver told The Associated Press Monday of her son, Warrant Officer 1 Stewart Duane Wayment, of North Logan, Utah, who leaves behind a wife, Kiara, and three young children.

Wayment had a positive outlook and cared about others, Weaver said. He enjoyed the outdoors and was excited to be stationed in Alaska, to fly over rugged landscapes and see the northern lights and wildlife.

Two helicopters from the 1st Attack Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment at Fort Wainwright, near Fairbanks, collided Thursday about 50 miles east of Healy when they were returning from training, the Army has said. Healy is about 80 miles southwest of Fairbanks.

An investigative team from Fort Novosel, Alabama, arrived in Alaska over the weekend and flew to the crash site Monday, said John Pennell, a U.S. Army Alaska spokesperson.

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The Army has identified the soldiers who died as Wayment, 32; Chief Warrant Officer 3 Christopher Robert Eramo, 39, of Oneonta, New York; and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Kyle D. McKenna, 28, of Colorado Springs, Colorado. A fourth soldier was injured. That soldier's name has not been released.

Pennell has said that there were "no weather or visual constraints known of at the time of the collision."

The Army on Friday grounded aviation units for training after the crash, which occurred a month after nine soldiers were killed when two Army Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopters crashed during a nighttime training exercise in Kentucky.

Units are grounded until they complete the training, Lt. Col. Terence Kelley, an Army spokesperson has said. For active-duty units, the training is to take place this week, between Monday and Friday. Army National Guard and Reserve units will have until May 31 to complete the training.

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A commander at the level of a two-star general can authorize an exception, he said.

"The safety of our aviators is our top priority, and this stand down is an important step to make certain we are doing everything possible to prevent accidents and protect our personnel," Army Chief of Staff James McConville said of the decision to ground flight units for training.

New York U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Monday sent a letter to U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin requesting a review of helicopter crashes within all military branches that were fatal or that involved the loss of aircraft. She requested information on such accidents within the last five years.

She cited a 2021 New York Army National Guard crash that killed three soldiers during training. "Since then, we have only lost more service members to catastrophic incidents involving rotary wing aircraft," she wrote.

The Army on Friday said that while both the Alaska and Kentucky crashes are under investigation, "there is no indication of any pattern between the two mishaps."