(LifeSiteNews) — Detransitioner Chloe Cole canceled a TPUSA speaking engagement scheduled for tonight at the University of Washington’s Seattle campus due to threats by anarchist groups.
“Antifa has assembled a local ‘militia’ in their own words to shut down this event,” Cole said in a Tuesday evening social media video post.
“Their actions, their explicit threats on my life, have raised this event to national attention, a level of attention our security team and the local PD are frankly unprepared for,” she explained.
“Before Charlie Kirk’s assassination, I think I would have been less careful,” Cole said. “But the times have changed, and speaking on a university campus in 2026 can come with deadly consequences. We are postponing this event because of this reality.”
Last year, violent Antifa thugs rioted on the Washington campus during an anti-Charlie Kirk protest. Four months later, Kirk was shot and killed during an appearance at another college campus.
“I am not afraid of Antifa,” Cole declared. “It’s hard to shake me. And some ragtag group of ‘wannabe revolutionaries’ on cross-sex hormones certainly won’t shake me. But there’s a difference between being brave and being stupid.”
“The reason I am speaking out at all is because I’ve already walked and escaped my own personal hell,” said Cole, who underwent cross-sex hormone treatments and a double mastectomy at age 15.
“This is not a win for Antifa because truth will always win,” Cole emphasized. “Christ will always prevail.”
“God created each and every single one of us in his image and there are only two sexes. That is the exact message I was going to take to the University of Washington tomorrow,” she explained.
“I will be back, not just to UW, but to many campuses across the country, because once conversations stop, that is when the violence begins,” she added.
My event at University of Washington with TPUSA tomorrow has been postponed, here’s why… pic.twitter.com/BkWfNGRNHL
— Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChloeCole) May 13, 2026
In a social media post earlier this week demanding the university cancel the event, pro-Palestinian group UW Divest News called TPUSA a “hate group” and Cole a “transphobic right-wing grifter.”
Had the event gone on as planned tonight, the group urged students to disrupt Cole’s speech by any means possible: “Bring flags, drums, or anything to make some noise!”
After Cole announced that she had canceled the event, UW Divest declared victory, writing on Instagram: “Turning Point USA bends to student power by cancelling their event with a transphobic agitator tomorrow. Join us tomorrow at 6pm outside of Kane Hall to celebrate this win and make sure they know not to return.”
In a statement to Fox News Digital, TPUSA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet said, “We’re incredibly proud of our student leaders, the local chapter, and Chloe, all of whom did everything in their power to push forward with the event, and when it became clear they could not do so safely, committed immediately to rescheduling.”
“There’s been a lot of debate in the media about whether political violence is in fact a ‘both sides’ issue, and yet TPUSA continues to face violence and threats of violence from the radical left when we attempt to peacefully assemble and debate ideas. Words are not violence,” Kolvet added. “The truth is not violence. Violence is violence, and right now the vast majority of it in this country is coming from a militant cadre of Antifa, Transtifa, and Pro-Palestine aligned groups who have completely abandoned the American ideals of open debate and dialogue and have turned instead to violent extremism.”