In many countries, including in the European Union, trans people are forced to undergo sterilisation just to access basic rights.
Two reported subversive approaches (eg, secretly using injections, sterilisation) to achieve fertility intentions while avoiding conflict.
While some advocates, including Dr Gray himself, had pushed for more extreme measures including sterilisation to be included in the Act, the approach eventually adopted in New Zealand was slightly gentler.
The cause-specific hazard of time to the first salpingectomy was modelled by a Cox proportional hazards approach, including time-dependent hysterectomy and sterilisation status and birth cohort as categorical covariates (1947 51, 1952 56 and 1957 63).
Such persons would be sterilised or deported if they refused sterilisation.
Our study results indicate that the concept of reproductive autonomy might be part of a particular historical reflection of traditional psychiatric (coercive) approaches to prevent reproduction among psychiatric patients through sterilisation and custodial/paternalistic care for eugenic reasons.
Salpingectomy as a sterilisation procedure should be discussed thoroughly with the patient before deciding on the approach to be adopted for the individual woman.
Even though the government of India talks about a "cafeteria" approach to contraception, whereby women can choose the method most suited to them, sterilisations outshine temporary methods such as birth control pills and condoms or male methods such as vasectomy.
Even though the government announced a "target-free" approach to population control in 1996, accredited social health activists community workers under India's National Rural Health Mission continue to receive sterilisation targets from their superiors.
Compulsory sterilisation?
