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Chapter 24 - Fertility Counseling for Transgender and Nonbinary People

from Section E - Fertility and Reproduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2022

By
Diane Chen  and
Leena Nahata
Edited by
Mick van Trotsenburg ,
Rixt A. C. Luikenaar  and
Maria Cristina Meriggiola
Mick van Trotsenburg
Affiliation:
Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität, Wien
Rixt A. C. Luikenaar
Affiliation:
Rebirth Health Center, Utah
Maria Cristina Meriggiola
Affiliation:
Università di Bologna
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Summary

This chapter provides an overview of the hormonal and surgical interventions available to transgender and nonbinary (TNB) people, what is known about how these interventions affect fertility, fertility preservation options at different stages of pubertal development, TNB individuals’ attitudes toward family building and experiences with fertility counseling and fertility preservation, barriers to fertility counseling, and recommendations for best practice for fertility counseling for TNB people based on the known literature to date.

Keywords

transgendertransgender and nonbinary individualsgender-affirming medical caregender-affirming hormonesGnRHatestosteroneestrogenfertility preservationfertility counselingoocyte cryopreservationsperm cryopreservationembryo cryopreservation
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Context, Principles and Practice of TransGynecology
Managing Transgender Patients in ObGyn Practice
 , pp. 183 - 189
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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