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Soren Aldaco: Another Detransitioner Sues

Detransitioner files $1M lawsuit against doctors for botched mastectomy that left her ‘permanently disfigured’

Lawsuit says doctors ‘coerced’ Soren Aldaco into identifying as transgender and pushed her into a double mastectomy that left her permanently disfigured

Aldaco, who is autistic, said she was battling depression and anxiety as a teenager when she was hospitalized with a manic episode at 15. After a short meeting with a psychiatrist there, Aldaco said she was “coerced” into coming out as transgender. Two years later, Aldaco connected with Del Scott Perry, a nurse practitioner with Texas Health Physicians Group at a transgender support group. After sharing her mental health struggles and identity confusion with Perry, Aldaco said the nurse practitioner encouraged her to begin medically transitioning and wrote her prescriptions for “an outrageously large off-label dosage” of testosterone, the suit alleges.

At the age of 19, Aldaco underwent a double mastectomy at the Crane Clinic in Austin which left her with “horrible post-surgical complications” and found her “nipples literally peeling off of her chest,” according to the 29-page complaint. When she reached out to her surgeons over concerns that something was wrong, Aldaco says she was told that her complications were normal “despite sending graphic pictures of the pools of blood forming subcutaneously within her torso.”

Source: Fox News. (for my readers who dislike Fox News, do a Google search for “Soren Aldaco sues” or “detransitioner sues” and see how many links to more ‘respectable’ news sites you find. And then ask yourself, why is that?)

See her story….

Sometimes the compassionate response is one which sets firm boundaries. At the end of the day you need to be able to discern between enabling and helping – that you giving me access to certain drugs – that you just giving me referrals to whomever I asked for didn’t actually help me heal – it affirmed me in my delusion.

Soren Aldaco

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The Real Risks of Gender Education

Lisa Selin Davis, the author of Tomboy, writes about her daughter, a girl mistaken for a boy, and the confusion that follows. It’s a story about gender, about how we see it, and how we teach it. It’s about bathrooms and playgrounds, about short hair and long hair, about boys and girls and those who don’t fit neatly into either box.

She worries that we’re teaching kids to fix themselves, to change who they are to fit into a world that doesn’t understand them. She worries about the ‘snowplow’ parents who try to clear the path for their kids, who try to shield them from every hurt and every pain.

Davis worries about a generation of kids who are identifying out of their sex. She worries about the kids who are so desperate to escape their pain that they’ll do anything to be free.

Kids are being taught that feelings are facts, that words can be violence, that to be misgendered is to be harmed. They’re being taught that discomfort is something to be avoided, not something to be endured.

But she also sees hope. She talks about the girls who grew up nonconforming, who grew up different, who grew up strong. She talks about the resilience they developed, the self-confidence they found, the way they learned to navigate a world that didn’t understand them.

In the end, Davis wants to teach kids to accept suffering, to understand that pain is a part of life. She wants to teach them to be resilient, to be strong, to be themselves. She wants to change the world, but she also wants to teach her kids to navigate the world as it is. Because the world is tough, and it’s confusing, and it’s full of pain. But it’s also full of beauty, and joy, and the possibility of change.

The Real Risks of Gender Education (SEE IF YOU AGREE)

Companion Posts

The Irony of Gender Identity Stereotypes
Coddling Generation Safety Blankey? Or Affirming Shared Truths?
College Students Demand Protection From Words and Ideas

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