Soren’s journey back from gender madness.

From Trauma to Healing: Soren Aldaco’s Detransition Journey

At 19, Soren Aldaco found herself alone in an emergency room for 8 hours, with doctors reopening the wounds from the double mastectomy she had undergone just two weeks earlier.

Inserting a Q-tip in the hole they had to cut open, doctors aggressively knocked out blood clots, sewed surgical drains into her body, and removed over three cups of blood that had pooled in her chest.

“At the time, I thought I was going to die,” Soren told Independent Women’s Forum. “I just remember being on zero pain meds at the time.”

Soren began identifying as transgender at 11. She started hormone replacement therapy at 17, and two years later underwent surgery to remove her healthy breasts.

Now 21, Soren looks back on her medical