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.