Editor’s Note: this story was updated on 11/23/2025 to provide a complete list of political dignitaries who attended the “Never Extinguished” event either Friday or Saturday.
This past Friday and Saturday, Alaska Family Council (AFC) invited de-transitioner Chloe Cole and author Logan Lancing to speak about their experience and expertise fighting the inundation of Queer Theory in American culture. AFC provided two opportunities to hear from the normalcy defenders: at a BBQ dinner on Friday in the Valley or over dessert on Saturday in Anchorage.
Candidates for Governor Bernadette Wilson, Nancy Dahlstrom, Shelley Hughes, Treg Taylor, Adam Crum, Matt Heilala, and Edna DeVries attended the event, as well as Dave Donley, who is running for the Anchorage Assembly and State Representatives Julie Coulombe, Jubilee Underwood, Cathy Tilton, and Elexie Moore.
Love Leads the Fight
AFC leaders Jim and Kim Minnery and Tim Barto unabashedly centered the four-hour long event on Jesus Christ and biblical principles. The event began and ended with prayer and carried a theme of warrior-like faith throughout. Emphasizing the need for Christians to defend biblical principles during a time of increasing secularization in America, Jim Minnery quoted G.K. Chesterton: “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him but because he loves what is behind him.” Jim then stated: “Love is what puts us in the arena.”
Logan Lancing: “The War on Normal”
After announcements about AFC’s recent work and initiatives, TPUSA-UAA President Jack Thompson introduced author Logan Lancing. Logan shared his research on Queer Theory, helping listeners understand what Queer Theory is and the role it plays in education according to its own proponents. According to Kevin Kumashiro’s 2002 article “Against Repetition: Addressing Resistance to Anti-Oppressive Change,” the goal of education is not to help children understand the world around them, but rather to cause children to experience mental crises that prompt them to create their own realities. Kumashiro puts it this way: “Educators have a responsibility not only to draw kids into a possible crisis, but also to structure experiences that can help them work through their crises productively” (74-75).
As Logan continued to quote a plethora of queer theorists, the consensus among academics favoring Queer Theory became clear: Queer Theory promotes whatever contradicts a society’s understanding of normalcy and seeks to instill the philosophical principle that reality exists only in the mind of the individual, who may shape reality in any way and must assert the validity of that reality on anyone who opposes it. Logan sums this up as “the war on normal.”
Chloe Cole’s Testimony
Following intermission after Logan’s intense speech, Candidate for Governor Shelley Hughes introduced the 21-year-old keynote speaker Chloe Cole. Hughes again grounded the event in a Christian worldview, stating, “Kingdom principles are common sense principles.”
With notable courage and eloquence, Chloe Cole shared her personal testimony of transitioning at 12 years old and then de-transitioning at 17. Chloe explained the main reasons that led to her initial gender transition: 1) she was assaulted at school shortly after she began puberty, 2) her impression of becoming a woman was highly negative and hyper-sexualized, 3) internet access exposed her to the transgender community, 4) her therapists presented gender therapy as the only solution to her distress. Her parents were skeptical of the hormone therapy, but the doctors scared them with an ultimatum: “you can either have a dead daughter—because she will kill herself—or an alive son.” Chloe stated she was never suicidal, and the ultimatum was pure manipulation.
As a junior in high school, Chloe’s feelings about her gender transition began to shift. She said that at first, she was happy living as “Leo” and that her classmates and teachers accepted her transition and treated her as any other boy. However, as she began to think about what she wanted her adult life to look like, she could not shake a strong desire to be a mother, to bring forth life from her own body.
When she decided to de-transition, all the support she had received when she transitioned evaporated. Her doctors refused to help. Her friends abandoned her. The trans community, who had welcomed her so warmly, now regarded her as an enemy. They told her she had wasted her parents’ love and acceptance, wasted important “healthcare” that could have been used for “a real trans kid,” and that she herself was a waste of life and she should kill herself.
However, Chloe never gave up. She began speaking out across the nation on the dangers of gender-denying care on minors. While she never regretted her de-transition, Chloe still felt a hole in her heart. She had scars from her double mastectomy, and she had scars on her soul. These wounds led her down a dark path of frequent truancy and drug use. She testified that she experienced true healing only after she accepted Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord of her life. “Through my relationship with Christ, I have experienced health in my body, mind, and soul,” she stated.
Defending Normalcy
Logan Lancing and Chloe Cole are two defenders against the ongoing assault of normalcy in American culture. It is not merely a modern assault, but one that has been relentless since the beginning of human history. Humanity is faced with this fundamental question: who is God? Queer ideology proclaims that the individual is God and that the individual has the right to live in whatever reality that the individual’s psyche chooses to create. Christianity proclaims that the Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is God and that the individual lives in the reality that this external deity has designed.
At the end of the day, everyone worships either an external deity, or they worship themselves. Alaskans are faced with the same choice. Such a foundational choice is deserving of intentional, sober, and respectful attention and conversation.
A good reason to not allow any transition surgeries until adulthood. There are as many interpretations of the Bible as there are versions. The one US and Alaska Constitution rules over AFC and protects LBTQ rights from the AFC and their biblical interpretations
There is no such thing as “LBTQ rights”. There are directives imposed by radical legislators giving special privileges and exemptions to specific segment of the polity and self-defined groups. As such any entity (including AFC) actually has a God given right to petition their government to solicit the enactment of laws and statutes – including those that previously granted activist groups exemptions and authorities in excess of that merited or truly Constitutionally protected.
Frank! You actually said something that I agree with! The first sentence, anyway.
Natalie Spaulding is a very impressive addition to Must Read Alaska and this is a very well done piece!
Hey Frank, it’s all still just playing pretend and forcing others to pretend with you against your will. Doesn’t forced acceptance sound nice? I find God’s grace, honesty and logic are much nicer ways to communicate with and treat others. Not fawning dishonesty and submission to demands.
This is a well-written article! However, I will put it out there that the author didn’t completely cover what Chloe Cole still goes through. She has stated in recent interviews that she still experiences almost constant physical discomfort from the surgeries that were performed on her, and she STILL gets threats and hate-mail from self-proclaimed members of the “Trans community”. For being people that claim to support “acceptance”, they sure do turn vicious and vile when someone changes their mind about something…
That is indeed true. In fact, those groups of deluded hate-filled demoniacs save for the detransitioners among us an extra measure of violence, condemnation and dehumanization.
Excellently written and it is encouraging to know this event was successful and that people such as Chloe and Logan have the courage and commitment to speak out with truth. Thank you Must Read for covering this.
Poor Frankie-
Proverbs 15:1 (“A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger”), Romans 12:18 (“If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all”), and Matthew 5:44 (“But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”).
Since you are persecuted we will pray for you. 🙂
Dan, can you cite some biblical verses that support your christian hatred of thing’s different from you?
For those of faith who call on his name. “Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is no other NAME. Acts 4:12. But what is his name? We often call on GOD, or Jesus for wisdom and devine help in these matters, but what if that is not their true name? “A new god was proclaimed and officially ratified by Constantine. Acta Concilii Nicaeni, 1618”. How corrupt it has all become, and we will never get out of this mess without knowing his true name
Hello, Albert! Thank you for engaging with our content. You pose an interesting question that is worth serious thought.
Here are some Bible verses for your consideration:
“If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)
“Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’” (John 14:6)
Additionally, if you read the full chapter of Acts 4, you will find it quite clear that Jesus is the name Paul is referring to in verse 12.
That’s the Greek name. It is Yeshua (salvation) in Hebrew/Aramaic. Linguistics and centuries of historical turns can blur things considerably. He has many names. He is beyond confining to a label or box. He is the Creator, Law Giver, Sustainer, Omnipotent & Omnicient One, Redeemer Kinsman, the Great I AM, the Rock of our salvation, Adoni, Elohim, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, Counsellor, Almighty God, the root and shoot of David, the Messiah, HaMesshiac, HaShem, Yahweh, the KING of kings, HIGH priest, LORD of lords, the Most High Sovereign God… and more. He has no limits as we do as humans. Yet He is worthy of praise and honor and glory from all living creatures and all creation.
Try Adonai or Yahweh
Always capitalize the words “Him” or “His” when referring to the Creator in such manner. Glad to have helped.
As is written in all scripts authored contemporarily with The Savior’s life and ministry – as well as the 70 years that followed His crucifixion, He was referred to as Yeshua Hamashiach.
Glad to have helped.
Yes I agree, the son is the only way to the father, and through him we can fix this mess we find ourselves in, and only through him, and not through our ways, I believe. I would also say the name god is only a title, not the fathers name even though the KJV proclaims the title some 7000 times. Much to understand and consider