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Transmascs: have you or do you plan to have some of your eggs harvested / frozen?
Yes, have harvested / frozen some of my eggs
Yes, planning to harvest / freeze some eggs
Unsure / undecided
No, don’t really plan to do that
No, will definitely never do that
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One of the things I decided to do while I was on my tumblr hiatus was look into freezing my eggs. It's been several months, because I had to be off birth control for a while and then I was traveling around my period, but now my schedule is clear, and I just got my period an hour ago. So I guess I'm starting the process on Wednesday and . . . yeah, I'm a tiny bit freaked out. A little. I am such a baby with any pain or discomfort. Annnnnd there's the whole explaining to the partners I work with that I'm going to have a procedure, but don't know when, but will need time to recover after (I'd really prefer not disclosing to the all-male partners that it's for egg retrieval, especially as I know one gets very, very concerned about female attorneys/staff potentially getting pregnant and going on leave (yes, it's a problem)). And god knows uncertainty is, like, anathema to partners.
In other words I'm a nice little ball of anxiety.
When i had my visit with a transcare physician, she was very insistant that i consider freezing my eggs in case i ever want children. i told her i never liked kids my entire life (20 years) and i dont see that changing, but she still insisted i think about it. Im incredibly suggestible and even though im positive ill never want kids, her insistance made me a bit nervous about saying no. Im in BC, would there be any cost associated w freezing eggs? Esp if im pretty sure im never going to use them
first, as annoying as this is to hear, I am SO glad that your doctor is speaking about this because so many doctors are neglectful to mention this as an option. this is absolutely the standard of care (to ask people to consider if freezing eggs/sperm is right for them) before HRT, and from my experience, almost nobody asks it. She’s being insistent that you /consider/ freezing your eggs, not that you /freeze/ your eggs. think about whether or not this is a good option for you, and what you want for your future.
You definitely don’t need to do it if you’re definitely sure you’ll never want biokids, (you can always have kids other ways later if you change your mind) but for the clients who are more focused on transition and didn’t think about 30 year old parent them, it gives them a second to think “oh yeah, that might be a good idea!”
So back to you: I'm not in BC and i don’t know a lot about your area (i know we have some mods from Canada but i can’t remember which areas specifically and they're not super active right now, and i wanted to get this ask up soonish). What i can find is this blogpost from 2017 (it’s very cis-centric), about female egg freezing (and assumingly your costs should be similar, as long as laws haven’t changed).
“And without an employer picking up the tab, it's a pricey endeavor. Costs vary depending on the clinic, but are usually in the region of $10,000 to extract and freeze the eggs, $300 per year to store them, and $6,000 to cover the cost of one IVF cycle. So far no provincial health plans cover the cost to freeze eggs, though Ontario does offer coverage for one round of IVF and tax credits for IVF drugs. Other provinces like Manitoba offer residents tax credits, and companies like Starbucks Canada have also started covering IVF for their Canadian employees.“
If our canadian mods or other canadian followers, especially from BC read this and have any additional information about cost or context, it’d be great to have them weigh in with that info here.
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Cryogenic egg-storage techniques have improved dramatically in recent years.But as one woman says, ‘If this is your Plan B, you’ll need a Plan C’
Egg freezing, the process by which eggs are removed and cryogenically stored to prevent age-related decline, has seen a rise in popularity, with a threefold increase since 2014, according to research from the London Women’s Clinic. Meanwhile, recent coverage of “social” egg-freezing advocates, such as Dr Emily Grossman, seems to offer hope to women who want to buy time before meeting the right partner or to delay pregnancy. Ostensibly, egg freezing offers women this breathing space: to preserve their chance of having a baby without compromising on other aspects of their lives.
Except the most recent figures tell a different story. A study by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) of women who used their frozen eggs in 2014 found that only 14% of implantation cycles were successful. So how effective is the technology? And should women really be trusting egg freezing as a fertility solution, given the limited evidence in its favour? Dr Kylie Baldwin, a medical sociologist with the Centre for Reproduction Research at De Montfort University, is sceptical: “The technology has been presented as a magic bullet to level the playing field between women and men, reproductively. The science is relatively straightforward. As Dr Simon Fishel, head of research and development at Care, a UK fertility clinic, explains, patients are injected with drugs to stimulate the ovaries for around 10 days. The eggs are then removed before being taken away to be frozen and stored in a lab. The freezing process has got more effective in recent years: it used to take more than four hours, but now it is done in a matter of minutes by a technique called vitrification, which Fishel deems “much more efficient”. He believes egg freezing is now “as good as IVF” – although that has a success rate of 26.5%, according to data from HFEA.
Hi, I’m almost 2 years on T (I went private) and I want to freeze my eggs once I finally get through to the NHS (which should be in around 6 months) as I couldn’t afford to do it privately. Will I still be okay to get my eggs frozen after being on t like 2.5 years? Also do you know how long roughly the whole process takes, like how long I’d have to go off t for? Thank you
This page should help!
~ James
Thanks for the ovarian shoutout, @buzzfeed!
New study suggests women freeze eggs because fewer men pass educational muster
Women, faced with a deficit of marriageable men, are “desperately” scrambling to freeze their eggs — at least according to all of these headlines surrounding a forthcoming fertility study.
Yet the women the study describes don’t sound “desperate” so much as judicious, taking advantage of modern science while searching for a suitable child-rearing helpmate.
Yale University anthropology and international affairs professor Marcia Inhorn and her team surveyed 150 U.S. and Israeli women who’d opted to freeze their eggs between June 2014 and August 2016.
Within that admittedly small sample group, 90% of participants attributed their decision to what Inhorn described as a “man deficit” resultant from a relative lack of degree-holding males, according to the BBC. Read more (7/6/17)
