Soren Aldaco
Detransitioner, researcher and podcast producer
Soren Aldaco is a detransitioner, researcher, podcast producer and Independent Women ambassador whose story — shared on Detrans Awareness Day — puts a human face on the reckoning now under way in Britain, where the Cass Review and the closure of the Tavistock have forced a long-overdue national conversation about gender medicine.
Soren Aldaco is a detransitioner, researcher, podcast producer and ambassador for Independent Women who has chosen to speak openly about stepping away from a gender transition. Her willingness to frame that journey not as failure but — in her own words — as discomfort before something greater gives her voice a distinctive quality: grounded in personal experience yet shaped by research and advocacy.
In Detransitioning — Discomfort Before Something Greater, recorded on Detrans Awareness Day (12 March 2026) alongside hosts Stella O'Malley, Mia Hughes and Dr Bret Alderman, Soren offered a candid first-hand account of detransition. The timing was deliberate: Detrans Awareness Day exists to surface experiences that mainstream discourse has long passed over, and Soren's combination of lived testimony and analytical clarity made for a rare and generous conversation.
For British listeners, her account arrives at a pivotal moment. The Cass Review found the evidence base for paediatric gender medicine to be far weaker than had been claimed; NHS England subsequently closed the Tavistock's Gender Identity Development Service. Many young people in Britain are now re-evaluating the medical pathways they were placed on, navigating exactly the kind of internal reckoning Soren describes with honesty and care — something clinical language alone cannot supply.
Her work with Independent Women places her within a transatlantic conversation about informed consent, safeguarding and the limits of affirmation-only models — questions that resonate as directly in British schools, GP surgeries and family courts as they do across the Atlantic.
