The social contagion of transgenderism seems to be waning. I'm not talking about the actual psychological condition of gender dysphoria; I'm talking about the spurious agenda taken up around that condition by activists and ill-advised parents, not to mention people who are supposedly healthcare providers and who really should know better.
As the man said, the times, they are a'changing, at least when it comes to foisting these life-changing, irreversible, and often sterilizing treatments on minors. Adults can knock themselves out, as long as taxpayer dollars aren't funding the; but kids, who can't give informed consent, are another story.
Which brings me to Soran Aldaco, who, as a child, was taken in by this social contagion, who has now detransitioned, and who is campaigning against this practice. Her story is compelling.
A detransitioner is sharing her story with The Center Square and speaking out in strong support of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy series of regulatory actions designed to block access to gender altering drugs and surgical procedures for minors.
Again, for minors. Minors cannot give truly informed consent, but these practitioners behave as though they are. These kids probably have parental consent; it's hard to see how even the most committed activist "healthcare provider," as it were, could proceed otherwise. When our kids were growing up, they couldn't see a dentist without parental consent.
But this isn't a tooth extraction or a filling. It's not an emergency surgery caused by appendicitis. It's not emergency treatment after an accident. These "gender-affirming" treatments are wholly elective. Both surgical and hormonal treatments have effects that are disfiguring, irreversible, and often cause sterility and an inability to enjoy the intimate relations that most people take for granted.
That's what they tried to do to Soren Aldaco.
Soren Aldaco who lives in Texas, began identifying as transgender at age 11.
After reuniting with her biological father and stepmom a few years later, and still suffering gender dysphoria, her stepmom introduced her to a nurse practitioner at a support group.
“I believe that everybody in my life was doing what they thought was best at the time," Aldaco said. "But I now understand my stepmom and my biological father who had just come into my life, they probably felt a lot of guilt for not being in my life up until that point."
She explained they were taking her to healthcare professionals who began prescribing powerful drugs to the then 17-year-old without her mother’s knowledge or permission.
“In June of 2021 I had the double mastectomy and just six months after that, I stopped everything that I could,” Aldaco said.
She explained there were complications almost immediately after surgery.
There frequently are complications after these disfiguring surgeries, not to mention emotional scarring, but here, watch Soren tell her own story.
Not that once the deed was done, the surgeons who performed this disfiguring act acted awfully nonchalant about the post-operative complications. As a result of her treatments, she has suffered permanent effects and may never be able to have children.Six months later (after the surgery), she began to detransition. Doctors have said it's unclear if she will be able to carry a child.
That's a tragedy, as much as any assault that would have resulted in the same outcome. And much like an assault, this was completely preventable.
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The Trump administration has cut off federal funding for any facility or organization that performs these treatments on minors, and that, indeed, may be a big part of the problem. As with so many things, we can follow the money.
Aldaco is convinced many providers and hospitals have promoted gender surgeries on minors because of the money involved.
“I do think the money is a huge, huge, huge, huge component, because the fact that we've become lifelong patients after engaging with transgender medical care. I still have complications to this day, especially gynecologically,” Aldaco said. “I don't think every single person is sitting there plotting to mutilate kids. But I do think we live in a society that's motivated by bad actors.”
Soren and other victims of this social contagion do, or at least did, live in a sob-society of sorts, that was certainly motivated by bad actors. But now, at least federal funding for those bad actors has been cut off, reducing the motivation.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ action to bar “sex-rejecting” transgender procedures for minors has met with approval from groups that aim to protect children from harmful ideology, with some calling the move “long overdue,” stating that taxpayers should not be forced to pay for procedures that lack proven benefits.
There's a cautionary note here.
Yes, the action taken by Health and Human Services here is laudable. Soren's story gives us a compelling example of why that act had to be taken. But this has to be followed up. Congressional action should make this permanent, with legislation banning any support for "gender-affirming" care for minors. If not, the next Democrat administration to come to power will surely reverse the Trump administration's acts, and the federal taps will again, inexplicably, despicably, start shoveling money into this social contagion that is, quite literally, mutilating children. Donald Trump won't be president forever. There needs to be a stake driven through the chest of this social contagion.
Adults, as I've often said, may do as they please, as long as they don't ask the taxpayers to pay for it. A man or woman can claim to identify as the opposite, or as a tree spirit, or as a tuna sandwich, for all we should care, so long as they pay for everything themselves. But not children. There's a reason we don't allow minors to buy guns, to buy booze, to sign contracts, to vote; it's because they lack the experience and judgment to make those decisions. The same applies here.
When this subject comes up again, remember Soren, and remember that there are many more kids like her, suffering because of an agenda that defies good sense. Remember her, and in next year's midterms, vote accordingly.
