Monday 30 January 2017

The transfertile


There is a growing trend for people who are healthy and fertile to find doctors who will agree to render them infertile, perhaps with drugs or surgery. These are the transfertile. Infertile people trapped in a fertile body. Practices such as sterilisation, vasectomy, and taking a drug known informally as "The Pill" are shockingly widespread. We probably all know someone who is transfertile. And, amazingly, it is not difficult to find doctors who will facilitate these people's dreams.

Whereas doctors are meant to work towards healing people, now most are willing to do the opposite, and disable a perfectly healthy function.

There is a condition known as Body Integrity Identity Disorder, where "an otherwise healthy individual feels that they are meant to be disabled". Are sterilisation and contraception any different?

(Yes, I've written about this kind of thing before.)