An Intervention to Increase Fertility Preservation Counseling Prior to Starting Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine if an educational handout regarding fertility preservation options affected rates of fertility preservation counseling, REI referrals, and gamete cryopreservation in transgender and nonbinary adolescents.

Methods

This was a retrospective observational pre/post intervention study of patients seen at a single academic gender-affirming care clinic and were prescribed gender-affirming hormone therapy from January 2022 to January 2023 and April 2023 to April 2024.

Exposure

Educational handout.

Main outcome measures

The primary outcome was the rate of fertility preservation counseling.

Results

There were 208 eligible patients, with 143 in the pre-intervention group and 65 in the post-intervention group. There was a significant increase in

SUBMITTER: Pierce A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12767267 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature