Fertility options in transgender people

International Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 112-119

  De Roo, Chloë ^a   Tilleman, Kelly ^a   Tsjoen, Guy ^a   De Sutter, Petra ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; fertility; reproductive wish; transgender

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE;

ASTHENOSPERMIA; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; GENDER DYSPHORIA; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; OOCYTE; OVARIAN TISSUE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX REASSIGNMENT; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; TRANSGENDER; TRANSGENDERISM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; OVUM; SPERMATOZOON;

CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; OVUM; SEX REASSIGNMENT PROCEDURES; SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERY; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSGENDER PERSONS;

EID: 84957442176     PISSN: 09540261     EISSN: 13691627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09540261.2015.1084275     Document Type: Review

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