Is birth control through gene editing possible?

Question

Is it technologically possible to make a human male sterile from birth using gene editing? How would this effect the male’s natural development? And, would you be able to reactivate these genes in adulthood?

Edit: for clarity, I’m asking if it’s possible to edit the DNA of a male embryo/fetus to prevent the eventual production of sperm, and reverse this process when the man becomes an adult.

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It’s absolutely possible to sterilize a group of people using gene editing.

Whether or not you could ever undo that kind of damage is impossible to know.