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[[Tubal ligation]], also called getting one's tubes tied, and sometimes used to mean a bilateral salpingectomy (destroying both fallopian tubes), is a form of sterilization. Any method of tubal ligation works by stopping the path the egg cell would travel through the fallopian tube to the uterus. For people who have a uterus, this procedure is meant to make it permanently virtually impossible for them to get pregnant. There are several methods of tubal ligation, but bilateral salpingectomy has come to be the preferred standard of care, because it is the most effective.<ref name="ACOG774">ACOG Committee Opinion No. 774: Opportunistic Salpingectomy as a Strategy for Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Prevention, Obstetrics & Gynecology: April 2019 - Volume 133 - Issue 4 - p e279-e284 doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000003164 Full text: https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Fulltext/2019/04000/ACOG_Committee_Opinion_No__774__Opportunistic.59.aspx [https://web.archive.org/web/20230507123319/https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/fulltext/2019/04000/acog_committee_opinion_no__774__opportunistic.59.aspx Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> For some [[transgender]] and [[nonbinary]] people, if their only concern about their uterus is that a risk of pregnancy is a source of distress and body dissonance (called [[gender dysphoria]]), this is an alternative to removing the uterus (called [[hysterectomy]]).<ref>Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. ''Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community.'' Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 236, 267-268.</ref> Because this is not Wikipedia, this article should focus on common questions that transgender and nonbinary people have about this procedure, and should be written in simple English, so that people who are not doctors can easily understand it.