Half the states in the U.S have the same requirement if you want to change your birth certificate (which is oft required to update other important documents like drivers license and SSN), while also expecting Trans people to be able to come up with $40k of their own money to afford surgery.
where do some of them get this stuff? you can change your name beyond easy in every state, drivers licenses are generally easy to change too, it just has to be consistent (women who get married are doing this constantly for example)
of course changing your fucking social security number (a federal program, natch) and BIRTH CERTIFICATE isn't as easy as just saying you want to, but in no state is sterilization required, merely SRS, sterilization is just a side effect (it took me one New York Times article to find this out)
