I got an elective hysterectomy at age 30. And the first GYN I asked, at <25, said she'd give me a Mirena and then if, when it was time to get that replaced, I still wanted to be sterilized, she'd do a tubal. So it's not impossible (and IMO, the recovery time and cost are at least potentially a lot less than the risk of an unwanted pregnancy that you can't terminate).

But what really surprises me is not so much that the outcome is that the guy is getting the snip and more that it seems to be--- more in the first letter we had on this topic than in this one--- that there are a lot of women who, specifically in the wake of Dobbs in the US, seem to start with wanting their male partners to get the snip, rather than wanting to get it themselves and then their partner getting the snip being the last resort, or an interim option, or as another commenter described, a step on the way to convincing a doc to take them seriously about wanting to be sterilized themselves.

I can see, "Oh, shit, nobody will fix me, but they'll at least do it for my partner!"; I can't see what the columnist in the last vasectomy letter we had here described, with a lot of US women apparently reacting to Dobbs by wanting their significant others to get snipped as a first response, rather than wanting to be protected from pregnancy by anyone.