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Fertility Preservation for Transgender Adolescents

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In this paper, the authors describe fertility preservation (FP) utilization by transgender adolescents within a pediatric gender clinic between July 2013 and July 2016, using a retrospective chart review to abstract demographic and clinical information among adolescents initiating gender-affirming hormones, including patient age at initial FP consultation, birth-assigned sex, race/ethnicity, and outcome of FP consultation.
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This article is published in Journal of Adolescent Health.The article was published on 2017-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 177 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Transgender & Gender dysphoria.

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Take the T Out, Put the T in: Gender affirming hormones in youth.

TL;DR: In this article, the psychosocial experiences of youth who have completed their endogenous puberty and are now requesting one of these two forms of gender-affirming hormonal treatment were investigated.
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“You’re Going to Want to Freeze Your Eggs”: Conversations Surrounding Fertility between Healthcare Professionals, Parents, and Transgender Adolescents

Lindsay Toman
TL;DR: This paper explored the thoughts and perceptions pertaining to fertility and how these three groups work with one another throughout transition and found that adult participants (parents and healthcare professionals) have mental barriers, which include fear of regret and grief over the loss of anticipated biological motherhood, there is a delay in the conversation happening between the healthcare professionals, parents, and trans adolescents, and they reject fertility, but are open to building a family.
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Care of Transgender/Gender Nonconforming Youth

TL;DR: For example, this paper found that mental health comorbidities in gender dysphoric youth diminish or resolve when such individuals are provided with gender-affirming treatment, optimally delivered in a multidisciplinary setting.
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Médecine et biologie de la reproduction dans le contexte de la transidentité – Préservation de la fertilité

TL;DR: In this paper, the preuve "irreversible and medicale d'une transformation physique" for pouvoir effectuer un changement de sexe a l’Etat Civil, which met fin a la sterilisation systematique and ouvre la possibilite d’une transition seulement hormonale.
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Fertility Desire and Motivation Among Individuals with Gender Dysphoria: A Comparative Study

TL;DR: In this article , the authors aimed to quantitatively display fertility desire from the perspective of these individuals, despite all the legal challenges they face, and found that fertility desire in people with GD is not less in comparison to cisgender people.
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Transgender Men Who Experienced Pregnancy After Female-to-Male Gender Transitioning

TL;DR: Transgender men are achieving pregnancy after having socially, medically, or both transitioned and themes from this study can be used to develop transgender-appropriate services and interventions that may improve the health and health care experiences of transgender men.
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Reproductive wish in transsexual men

TL;DR: The data reveal that the majority of transsexual men desire to have children, and more attention should be paid to this topic during the diagnostic phase of transition and to the consequences for genetic parenthood after starting sex reassignment therapy.
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Low Fertility Preservation Utilization Among Transgender Youth.

TL;DR: More research is needed to understand parenthood goals among transgender youth at different ages and developmental stages and to explore the impact of gender dysphoria on decision-making about FP and parenthood.
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Ovarian morphology in long-term androgen-treated female to male transsexuals. A human model for the study of polycystic ovarian syndrome?

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that androgens alone may induce polycystic changes in women with transsexualism and the assumption that the role of androgens is pivotal at the follicular level—inducing follicle growth arrest and accelerating cystic changes—in the genesis ofpolycystic ovaries is reinforced.
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