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21-Year-Old Sues Doctors and Clinics for More Than $ 1 Million Over Transgender Procedures

Woman claims doctors led her down a path of no return while she was a teenager

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21-Year-Old Sues Doctors and Clinics for More Than $ 1 Million Over Transgender Procedures
Demonstrators share about Detransition Day in Los Angeles, Calif., on March 12, 2022. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Senior Reporter
7/27/2023|Updated: 7/27/2023

A young Texas woman has filed a lawsuit for more than $1 million in damages, claiming that doctors pressured her into gender-reassignment procedures, resulting in a “botched” double mastectomy and irrevocable harm.

Soren Aldaco, 21, filed the medical negligence and malpractice lawsuit (pdf) on July 21 in Tarrant County, Fort Worth, against five medical providers and their employees.
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Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Senior Reporter
Darlene McCormick Sanchez is an Epoch Times reporter who covers border security and immigration, election integrity, and Texas politics. Ms. McCormick Sanchez has 20 years of experience in media and has worked for outlets including Waco Tribune Herald, Tampa Tribune, and Waterbury Republican-American. She was a finalist for a Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting.
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