AUSTIN, TX — Today, the Texas Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Soren Aldaco, an Independent Women ambassador and detransitioner seeking justice for what she says is medical malpractice that led to her double mastectomy at age 19.
Last month, Independent Women’s Features (IW Features) first detailed the stakes of this case in exclusive reporting, outlining how the court’s decision could determine whether detransitioners nationwide will have meaningful access to the courts or be shut out before their claims are ever heard. The hearing now places that question squarely before Texas’ highest court.
At issue is a pivotal legal question with national implications: When does the statute of limitations begin to run in detransitioner cases where medical harm unfolds over time?
Aldaco alleges she was fast-tracked into irreversible surgery by her former therapist and Three Oaks Counseling Group. The court is not being asked to rule on the merits of her malpractice claims. Instead, the justices will determine whether her case was improperly barred before it could ever proceed—a decision that could shape how courts across the country handle detransitioner medical malpractice claims.
Her case builds on growing legal momentum, including detransitioner Fox Varian’s $2 million settlement in New York. Together, these cases signal the beginning of a broader reckoning in medicine and the court.
“Today’s hearing at the Supreme Court of Texas is understatedly important. Even though I believe my case falls within the state’s two-year statute of limitations—and hopefully SCOTX will agree—detrans Texans deserve better. My hearing is only the beginning,” said Soren Aldaco. “I am confident my case has merit, and I am confident God will deliver justice. However, I cannot stress enough that we must continue this momentum beyond today.”
Aldaco continued, “Young people lost in transition need time to grow up and digest harm. It’s ridiculous to think that under current laws, the clock to sue could stop before harm is ever realized—or that lawsuits like mine, which have merit and shed light on one of the most horrific practices of modern medicine, could brush too closely against deadlines we’re capable of changing.”
The Texas Supreme Court accepted Aldaco’s petition in December after a 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 framework, as set by the state’s 2003 Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act.
These oral arguments have been a long time coming, as Aldaco has been seeking justice since July of 2023. She was one of the earliest detransitioners in the United States to publicly pursue legal action against medical providers in this context.
You can read the full exclusive from IW Features on Aldaco’s lawsuit 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]
The case comes amid a broader cultural and medical reassessment of pediatric chemical and surgical mutilation. In a significant and long-overdue reversal, the American Association of Plastic Surgeons and the American Medical Association emerged saying that pediatric gender surgeries should not be a common procedure offered to minors and should never have been normalized as “care.”
As courts, lawmakers, and medical institutions confront these questions, today’s arguments mark a turning point—for Soren Aldaco and for countless young people who say they were misled, affirmed without question, and left to live with the consequences.
IDENTITY CRISIS
Aldaco’s story was first brought to national attention through IW Features’ groundbreaking “Identity Crisis” documentary series, which has exposed the real-world consequences of so-called “gender-affirming care” and amplified the voices of detransitioners and their families.
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 and exposing the failures of so-called ”gender-affirming care.” Through IW Features’ “Identity Crisis” series, Independent Women has helped spark a cultural reckoning—driving legislative reform, litigation, and renewed scrutiny of medical practices that have left a generation with irreversible harm.
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