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Publicizing the harm of transgender surgery will vilify the procedures and further isolate them:
On Wednesday, the Texas Supreme Court heard opening arguments in the case of a woman seeking damages for medical malpractice in gender transition.
Soren Aldaco, a detransitioned woman who suffered from gender dysphoria as a teen and underwent a double mastectomy at 19, is suing Barbara Wood and Three Oaks Counseling Group for recommending the senseless mutilation and allegedly falsifying information to secure it.
A Timeline Argument
In July 2023, Aldaco sued multiple practitioners involved in her surgery for negligence and fraud, but lost in a trial court and court of appeals that held the two-year statute of limitations had by that time expired.
On Wednesday, Aldaco’s lawyer argued that Wood can be held liable for injury because Texas’s two-year statute of limitations for medical malpractice had not expired before Aldaco filed the suit. Wood’s defense claims that the date of the letter she signed recommending Aldaco’s surgery, not the date of surgery itself, should determine when the statute of limitations commenced.
That difference is the driving question in Aldaco’s eligibility to sue. The date of the signed letter falls outside the statute of limitations; the date of the surgery falls within. A second, 10-year maximum deadline exists in Texas law, barring a suit filed 10 years after alleged malpractice, serving as a backup defense for Aldaco’s claim.
Strict Deadlines, Delayed Regret
The extreme harm caused by opposite-sex hormones and transgender surgeries can take years to materialize, and in Texas, a strict tort reform law stands as a roadblock for those seeking reparations.
The Texas legislature passed a law, upheld by the state’s Supreme Court in June 2024, banning practitioners from prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors. Shortly after, the state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton sued multiple practitioners who continued to do so illegally.
But legislators have yet to address revisions to the decades-old statute of limitations, established years before transgender mutilation became mainstream practice. The topic is currently slated for another legislative look in 2027 — not soon enough for those living with the long-term impact of the irreversibly ruinous procedures.
Sixty Republican legislators signed a letter on Feb. 9 supporting Aldaco’s case, demanding a way forward for prosecuting gender transition providers. “Do no gender-modification harm to Texans — or find no shelter from liability claims,” the letter reads. A grassroots effort to stop gender transition medicine, led by Protecting Texas Children, published a coalition letter to draw attention to the case, listing state and national organizations “standing with us in the fight for detransitioner justice,” in an X post. “This is bigger than one case. This is accountability. This is justice.”
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A 23-year-old Texas woman claims that gender-affirming doctors “gaslit” her into transitioning to male as a teenager — and even coached her on how to scam insurers so she could get “top surgery” to remove her breasts.
Soren Aldaco, a detransitioner who is currently embroiled in a legal fight against the medical practitioners involved in her transition, alleged that various doctors and counselors recklessly pressured her to start taking testosterone and estrogen blockers when she was just 17.
In an eye-opening op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Aldaco said she was given the meds after just a 30-minute consultation with a nurse practitioner.
Two years later, at 19 years old, she underwent a double breast removal — a serious operation which she alleged the surgeon botched.
Aldaco, who started identifying as trans when she was 11 years old and pursued countless medical interventions, claimed that gender-affirming surgeons pushed her to have the elective double mastectomy at the Crane Clinic in Austin.
“My surgeon made sure to facilitate my physical transition as much as possible, spoon-feeding me talking points for insurance coverage,” she said.
“After this surgery, I suffered major complications. I had severe bruising all down my rib cage, along my sides and on my chest. My surgeons repeatedly dismissed me when I came to them with these problems.”
When Aldaco, whose case went before the Texas Supreme Court this week, eventually took herself to the emergency room, with “kind” doctors who were “used to working with vulnerable women,” that’s when she realized that she had been manipulated. --->READ MORE HERE
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