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I wish I could get a bisalp, but I'm only 22 (lemmy.zip)
submitted 11 hours ago by to c/childfree@lemmy.world
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Doctors are apprehensive about letting young people get sterilised. The problem is that I'm heavily disabled and would feel gender dysphoria with pregnancy.

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[–] 1 point 10 hours ago (1 child)

Surely it depends what form you get sterilised? Tubes tying wouldn't prevent menstruation, but a hysterectomy would, as it removes the ovaries (but then you'd certainly need to be on HRT - but if you're trans anyway, that might not be an issue)

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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago*

    That true, but the OP said bisalp which, unless I mistranslated, doesn't remove the ovaries.

    And I generally interpret "sterilisation" to mean tubal for the following reasons: When removing ovaries or uterus the main reason isn't usually sterilisation, that's more like a side effect. If the main reason is preventing cancer and the chosen method for that is hysterectomy, it would also have a sterilisation effect, but I wouldn't call the operation a "sterilisation" because that isn't the point of it, you know? And if the point is to do a sterilisation you wouldn't usually go for a hysterectomy, because tubal interventions have much easier operations and much fewer side effects.

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