A 21-year-old transgender man in Sweden is speaking out against his country's law that requires a person be sterilized or else their gender change is not recognized legally.

Love Georg Elfvelin appears in a video posted this week by AllOut.org which is leading a campaign to have the law that has been in effect since 1972 abolished.

'I'm trans,' Elfvelin says in the video. 'That means I am born in a female body but my heart says I'm a man. I'm speaking out today because the Swedish government is forcing thousands of people like me to make an impossible choice. If I need to change the gender of my identity cards to reflect my true self, just a small change from an 'F' to an 'M', my country forces me to be sterilized.'

Since the video was posted on Youtube on Thursday (19 January), it has received more than 10,000 views. AllOut.org also has an online petition that as of Friday had more than 62,000 signatures.

'This barbaric practice of forced sterilization has to stop,' the organization states on the petition page. 'The majority of the Swedish parliament is in favor of modifying this law - but up until now Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has let a small conservative party block this long awaited reform.'

Human Rights Watch's Boris Dittrich has written a letter to Reinfeldt which states in part: 'The Swedish law causes anguish for transgender people who choose not to have the required surgery, involving an invasive medical procedure, for various reasons such as out of a wish to one day become parents.'

Below is the video from Elfvelin: