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Sounds like their life has been affected horribly.

Not sure what the relevance of the story is for us here, but I will pick one thing that baffles me. Why sue the medical professionals rather than hold the parents responsible? Aren't they the person's legal guardian? Do we really want to outsource that responsiblity to the state or private institutions? It is incoherent to say on the one hand "parents rights" (against the state) but on the other hand disclaim accountability.

If the doctors did indeed put pressure on her to have surgery, and were not in keeping with the WPATH standards of care, then they have committed malpractice.

But if they did, and Aldaco is simply suing them because she's unhappy and looking for somebody to blame it on, then it is a severe abuse of the legal system.

> Why sue the medical professionals rather than hold the parents responsible? Aren't they the person's legal guardian?

Because the medical professionals have insurance?

If you sue a doctor, and win, their insurer will pay.

If you sue your parents, and win, they might not have sufficient assets to pay the judgement.

Ah, Soren Aldaco, the right's favorite "detransitioner". Soren had a bad experience therefore everything trans people say is wrong.

If her doctors did indeed pressure her into making decisions that were wrong for her, then they should indeed be punished. That's the same as it would be for any other instance of medical malpractice.

But it takes a fairly high level of evidence to prove that.

> Piecing together my turbulent family life and adolescent internet habits, among other things, it dawned on me that I had never been “born in the wrong body.” There was no way to be born in the wrong body at all.

Indeed there isn't. This rhetoric comes across as a somewhat poetic way of dressing up self-hate and thinly justifying a set of ultimately futile bodily modifications. I mean it's not like anyone can really change sex.