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Title: Sterilization and Trans Genocide
Post by: Hazumu on October 21, 2008, 10:34:37 PM
Taking Up Too Much Space
trans misogyny, feminism, and trans activism (http://takesupspace.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/sterilization-and-trans-genocide/)
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QuoteTransgender people do not automatically lose their reproductive rights! They may choose to waive them but should never be forced to waive them.

Those who do go through treatment that renders them sterile should be able to preserve reproductive material where possible and to use that later in life if they so choose. [though fine in the US, it can disqualify one for government document change elsewhere, notably Japan.--me]

Where there are state-based health systems these should provide for this service for those that are covered by them.(link)
In this context, but without the governmental authority, at least one US medical practitioner, Jamie Feldman, has made a hysterectomy a precondition for testosterone treatments for a trans man married to a cis man. (with WPATH's approval–she operates out of the same building)