Code for: "The End of an Impossible Choice: Removing Infertility as a Prerequisite for Legal Gender Recognition"

Until 2013, transgender people in Sweden were required to undergo sterilizing surgery and destroy stored reproductive cells before changing their legal gender marker, thus rendering them permanently infertile. Using population-wide administrative data, we document a threefold increase in yearly legal gender marker changes following the removal of these requirements in 2013. After the policy change, 30% of trans women and 56% of trans men opted out of sterilizing surgery, leading to a one-week reduction in hospitalization days. Additionally, after fertility preservation became legal, 9.5% of trans women and 7% of men chose to store reproductive cells for future use.