Gender affirmative hormone treatment for trans women does not lead to permanent infertility, a study of nine transwomen in Australia and Denmark has shown.
Semen collected showed sperm production returned in eight participants within ten months of stopping hormone treatment, though was outside of normal parameters in half. Mature sperm were successfully collected from the final participant using testicular extraction 17 months after ceasing treatment, the study published in Cell Reports Medicine explained.
'Thus far, the assumption was that after the start of feminising hormones and testosterone blockers trans women would become infertile; therefore the results were surprisingly positive,' Dr Norah van Mello, one of the authors of the study, told the Daily Beast.
