Kerala High Court Upholds Right of Transgender Man to Freeze Eggs for Future

The Kerala High Court has granted a significant legal victory to a 28-year-old transgender man, allowing him to cryopreserve his eggs before completing his gender-affirming surgery.

Justice Shoba Annamma Eapen ruled that the petitioner can approach any Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) bank for preservation to safeguard his future reproductive choices.

The case arose after a private fertility center refused services, citing that the ART Act, 2021, only explicitly mentions "women" and "commissioning couples."

The Court emphasized that excluding transgender persons from such healthcare services potentially infringes upon fundamental rights to bodily autonomy and dignity under Article 21.

[Hari Devageeth v. UOI & Ors.]