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Elizabeth Rubin E Rubin, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, United States

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Paula Amato P Amato, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, United States

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Years of growing research demonstrate that transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people desire fertility counseling and family building, however social and medical factors can impact future fertility options. Fortunately, TGD individuals have many viable options for family building using their own gametes and/or reproductive organs. However, the nuanced ways in which different gender affirming treatments affect reproduction, the interplay with non-treatment related infertility factors, and mitigation of likely dysphoria triggers are all critical to actual utilization. This review focuses on fertility treatment and preservation options for TGD patients and highlights these influential social and medical factors. Fertility treatments may be associated with worsening gender dysphoria in TGD people, and an affirming clinical environment and conscientious provider approach is paramount to treatment success. However, reducing gender dysphoria can also require specific changes to medically assisted reproduction and sperm collection protocols, some which carry the potential for diminished outcomes or unknown effects. Adolescents undergoing fertility preservation treatments may need more support or additional protocol modifications, and outcomes may be poorer in this age group compared with adults. Testicular and ovarian tissue cryopreservation may present a fertility preservation option for prepubertal TGD children, however in-vitro gamete maturation remains experimental in this situation.

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