Transgender Sterilization: Sweden and Beyond

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mitch-kellaway/transgender-sterilization-sweden-and-beyond_b_3519723.html
7/1/13
Mitch Kellaway

The day I sat in my doctor's office, quietly placing an "X" next to boxes on a paper checklist, he sat placidly across the small room, eyes unfocusedly pointed towards the floor. I felt gratified at this attempt to give me privacy, but I didn't need any more time to think. I had put unquantifiable amounts of physical, mental, and spiritual energy into reaching this moment, into actualizing an inner self within the social realm via bodily transformation.

So I was not anticipating, as perhaps my doctor did, that I would be blindsided by my first biological reason to grieve. About halfway down the page, I paused. Filling out this Informed Consent waiver to access testosterone, I was unexpectedly confronted with the possibility of becoming sterile.