ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the history of European and American eugenic sterilisation practices, the history of the pathologising of gender nonconformity, and the connection of these through present-day transgender mental illness classification and sterilisation. As eugenic sterilisation is generally theorised in relation to reproductive heterosexuality and seen as a historical practice that targeted the assumed hereditary degeneracy of heterosexual and gender-conforming bodies and populations, the practice of present-day transgender sterilisation has not caught enough scholarly attention in the literature on eugenics or in the field of critical transgender studies.
