AUSTIN, TX — As the federal government moves to restore biological reality and strengthen protections for children from chemical and surgical mutilation, new exclusive reporting from Independent Women’s Features (IW Features) breaks the details around an upcoming Texas Supreme Court hearing that could shape how courts nationwide treat statute of limitations in cases involving medical malpractice claims brought by detransitioners.
On February 11, the Texas Supreme Court will decide a narrow but consequential legal question: when the clock starts running under Texas’s two-year statute of limitations for medical liability claims.
The Court will hear the appeal of Soren Aldaco, an Independent Women ambassador and detransitioner, in a lawsuit against her former therapist and Three Oaks Counseling Group over a recommendation letter that led to her undergoing a double mastectomy at age 19.
The appeal does not ask the Court to rule on the merits of Aldaco’s medical malpractice allegations. Instead, the Court accepted Aldaco’s petition in December challenging the lower court ruling that barred her claims before they could ever be heard.
The court’s answer will determine whether Aldaco’s lawsuit falls within Texas’s two-year statute of limitations, as set by the state’s 2003 Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act.
In an exclusive interview, Aldaco told IW Features that the harm for which she seeks accountability occurred within that two-year window—and that dismissing her case on procedural grounds denies detransitioners meaningful access to justice.
“I think the moment that I realized I needed to pursue legal action was actually before I de-transitioned, shortly after the complications I experienced,” Aldaco told IW Features. “At that time, I began to open my eyes to the sort of hypocrisy of care that the practitioners I saw were giving me.”
Aldaco has been seeking justice for the irreversible damage done to her body since July 2023. Aldaco was the fourth person in the United States who was public about suing practitioners in this way.
Read the full story here: Texas Supreme Court to Hear Case That Could Impact Detransitioner Lawsuits Nationwide.
Soren Aldaco [LEFT] and Aldaco speaking at the Federal Trade Commission’s workshop, “The Dangers of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Minors,” in July 2025 [RIGHT]
Aldaco’s story, first told by Independent Women’s grassroots storytelling division, IW Features, through its groundbreaking “Identity Crisis” documentary series, shook the nation. Now, as an ambassador for Independent Women, Aldaco is doubling down on her mission: to stop the chemical and surgical mutilation of minors and demand accountability from the institutions that have failed them.
About her journey and her lawsuit that is now before the Texas Supreme Court, Aldaco said: “Letting your life be for the greater good and contributing to something bigger than yourself is, I think, one of the best ways to find meaning. To do something bigger than yourself is an amazing way to get some kind of justice.”
Watch Soren Aldaco’s detransition journey here: How One Detransitioner Found Peace Outside of Medicalization
Since 2022, Independent Women has been at the forefront of bringing detransitioners’ stories to light, breaking the silence around so-called ”gender-affirming care” and showing how its reckless medical interventions are leaving a generation of young people with irreversible harm. IW Features’ “Identity Crisis” series has become a national platform for detransitioners and their loved ones, sparking a cultural reckoning and driving legislative reform and litigation for justice across the country.
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