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human
Why does Sweden require sterilization for transgendered peoples?

Been hearing alot about this through the news and friends, can someone explain the logic behind why the law exists? This there a legitimate medical/psychological concern or is it just conversatism being what it is?
gpt
Well there are two parts to this. One is that regular treatment using "cross sex" hormones (typically known as Hormone Replacement Therapy or HRT) will eventually make most individuals sterile (but not all and, for transgender men, they can sometimes conceive and give birth if they refrain from taking testosterone for a certain period of time). In the United States and elsewhere, this is typically accounted for and many trans people will store whatever gametes they produce at a fertility clinic or similar service.

Current Swedish Law is such that transgender individuals cannot even *store* genetic material in order  to have biological children in the future. In short, Swedish law is such that transgender individuals do not have a right to make reproductive choices for themselves. 

The logic behind the law is rooted in decades-old notions of eugenics and preventing undesirable populations from reproducing (similar to the forced sterilizations that largely occurred in the United Stated until the early 60s). The law is currently being upheld by the minority Christian Democrats, a religious right-wing party in Sweden who (IIRC) is courted because they're needed in order to form a coalition majority government in Parliament.