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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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Transgender Medicine and Hormone Therapy: What the Gynecologist Needs to Know.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors aim to elucidate the medical needs unique to transgender and gender nonconforming individuals and thus enable medical providers to meet those needs with competency and compassion.
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Update on bioethical, medical and fertility issues in gender incongruence during transition age

TL;DR: A comprehensive literature search within PubMed was performed to provide updates of available evidence regarding the impact on bioethical, medical and fertility issues in gender incongruence during transition age as discussed by the authors .
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Fertility preservation options for transgender and nonbinary individuals

TL;DR: In this article , the authors identify pertinent stakeholders in managing the care of these patients, as well as to better understand the optimal frameworks for delivering integrated and comprehensive care to this patient population.
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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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