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What do you have in mind with “… until the 2000s”?

According to Wikipedia:

“ Compulsory sterilisation in Sweden were sterilisations which were carried out in Sweden, without a valid consent of the subject, during the years 1906–1975 on eugenic, medical and social grounds.”

So the main sterilization program ended 1975. However:

“Between 1972 and 2013, sterilisation was also a condition for gender reassignment surgery.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilisation_in_...



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