No, @a-terf, of course governments requiring sterilising hormones and/or surgery for gender recognition aren’t the same as doctors sterilising or mutilating women for misogynist, racist, and/or ableist reasons, but they’re still medically-sterilising trans people against their will. The latter being worse or widespread likewise doesn’t mean trans people aren’t forcibly sterilised—why is this comparison the metric you’re using?

It might be true that “[medical] transitioning is a goddamn choice”, @the-spence, but “being trans is a choice” is a goddamn lie. No matter your beliefs about gender and trans people, if you have as a premise that being trans is a choice any conclusion you reach is worthless.

More to the point, it isn’t true (worldwide) that medical transition is a choice. No, it’s not the same as [other] forced sterilisation, but…who said it was, or had to be, to be forced? Should we call it “coerced sterilisation”? Does it suddenly become morally acceptable if we do?