A retired Navy SEAL who rose to fame nearly 10 years ago after coming out as transgender announced he was transitioning and called on Americans to “wake up” about how transgender healthcare is harming children.
“Everything you see on CNN with my face, don’t even believe a word,” Chris Beck, formerly known as Kristin Beck, told conservative influencer Robby Starbuck in an interview published earlier this month. “Everything that happened to me for the last ten years destroyed my life. I destroyed my life. I’m not a victim. I did this to myself, but I had help.”
“I take full responsibility,” he continued. “I went on CNN and everything else, and that’s why I’m here now, I’m trying to correct that.”
Beck gained notoriety in 2013 when he spoke to CNN’s Anderson Cooper about transitioning into a woman.
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“I was used… I was very naive, I was in very bad shape and I was taken advantage of. They propagandized me. I was misused by many people who had knowledge far beyond me. They knew what they were.” making. I didn’t,” she said during the interview.
Beck served in the US Navy for 20 years, including in SEAL Team Six. He was deployed 13 times and received more than 50 medals and ribbons for his service.
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Chris Beck, a former US Navy SEAL, speaks during a same-sex marriage rally to celebrate the decision of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Salt Lake City, Utah, on June 25. of 2014.
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Beck said she is speaking out about being transgender to protect children in the current political climate, where there are gender clinics “all over the United States.”
“Thousands of gender clinics are being set up across the United States,” she said. “As soon as [kids] he walks in and says, ‘Am I a tomboy or does this make me feel comfortable’ and then a psychologist says, ‘oh, you’re transgender.’ And then the next day, you’re taking hormones, the same hormones they use for the medical castration of pedophiles. Now they’re giving this to healthy 13-year-olds.”
“Does this seem correct?” he asked. “That’s why I’m trying to tell America to wake up.”
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Former transgender chief of the US Navy Seals, Kristin Beck, speaks during a conference titled “Perspectives on Transgender Military Service from Around the World,” hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Palm Center in Washington on October 20, 2014. Transgender military personnel from 18 countries that allow them to serve openly gathered to talk about their experiences and discuss whether the US military could join them. AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
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Beck said that when he began the transition, it only took an hour meeting at Veterans Affairs for them to offer him hormones.
“I walked into a psychologist’s office [and] in one day I have a letter in my hand that says I’m transgender. They cleared me for hormones. They authorized me all these other things,” Beck said.
A protester expresses his support for the promotion of transgender ideology in schools during a march in favor of transgender people.
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“I had a lot of things going wrong in my system when I started taking them,” he added. “Some of that was paid for by the VA, and I’m sorry to the American people for doing that.”
Beck said he’s been off hormones for about seven years.
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“This is a multi-billion dollar industry between psychologists, between surgeries, between hormones, between chemicals, between follow-up treatments,” he continued. “Thousands of gender clinics are springing up across our country. And each one of those gender clinics will probably raise more than $50 million.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Beck and CNN on Sunday but did not immediately hear back.
