Study: Sperm production may be possible in transgenders

Study: Sperm production may be possible in transgenders

All of the participants came through the Fertility Preservation Program in Pittsburgh between 2015 and 2018 as young adults. One of the patients who elected to preserve their sperm after beginning therapy had been taking the drug Lupron - a sex hormone blocker that halts puberty when taken in adolescence - for six months. She elected to stop taking Lupron to attempt sperm cryopreservation.

Five months later, she was able to produce a sperm sample comparable to those collected from the eight transgender women who saved their sperm prior to undergoing treatment. According to the researchers, for male-to-female transgender individuals, facial hair can start to sprout and the voice begin to deepen after just a few months of stopping medication. It's possible to reverse these effects, but it would take time.

Source: newsd.in

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