The controlled self-propelled movement of a sperm cell from the uterus through the uterotubal junction (UTJ) into the oviduct, where interaction between the sperm and the UTJ acts as a major selective barrier for sperm, allowing only living, motile, uncapacitated, morphologically normal sperm with intact acrosomes to pass from the uterus into the oviduct. [ GOC:krc http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29353867 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32712384 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31131960 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34057175 ]