New Orleans, LA - Transgender men preserve their fertility potential even after one year of treatment with the male hormone testosterone, according to a study that will be presented Saturday at ENDO 2019, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in New Orleans, La.
“Because the long-term effects of testosterone therapy on fertility are unknown, the current recommendation is to stop testosterone at least three months before fertility treatments,” said Greenman, who heads her medical center’s Transgender Health Center.
“This level likely indicates well-preserved ovarian function,” Greenman said. Their assumption is corroborated, she added, by the participants’ unchanged antral follicular count, also an indicator for estimating ovarian reserve.