I think you are going to have to find the relevant information yourself by looking through scientific papers. I don’t think that asking your doctor will be sufficient. It is rare to find a doctor who keeps up with reading all of the newest scientific journal articles.
Where your doctor might help is in explaining the mechanism by which the infertility may happen, to help you get more keywords with which to look stuff up.
It may be that quantitative answers for your questions are not available at all. From the link you mentioned, it says that as of 2009 there have been no studies of fertility after prolonged use of estrogen. For people unfamiliar with the state of medical science, it can be disorienting to learn that a lot of things simply haven’t been studied. There is so much that we as a civilization and society do not know.
Estrogen therapy usually eliminates the production of sperm. In 7 out of 10 trans women on estrogen, there was no >spermatogenesis.[53] A single male given estrogen had a pronounced drop in sperm motility and density by 4 weeks of >estrogen treatment, though it did recover after discontinuation of treatment.[54] As of 2009, there have been no studies >of restoration of spermatogenesis after prolonged treatment with estrogen. [52]
And those references are:
[52]Hembree, Wylie C., et al. “Endocrine treatment of transsexual persons: an Endocrine Society clinical practice >guideline.” The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 94.9 (2009): 3132-3154.
[53]Thiagaraj, D., et al. “Histopathology of the testes from male transsexuals on oestrogen therapy.” Annals of the >Academy of Medicine, Singapore 16.2 (1987): 347-348.
[54]Lübbert, Horst, Inka Leo-Roßberg, and Jürgen Hammerstein. “Effects of ethinyl estradiol on semen quality and >various hormonal parameters in a eugonadal male.” Fertility and sterility 58.3 (1992): 603-608.
If I was going to attempt to answer this question, I would start by reading those papers, to orient myself. I would also put as many keywords as I could think of into Google Scholar to see if I could find more papers on similar topics.
https://scholar.google.com
A quick search for “Hormone Replacement Therapy fertility cross-sex” and “male fertility estrogen hrt” found some papers on diabetes risks, cardiovascular risks, but not much about fertility. The search that mentioned estrogen seemed to find more specific articles and included studies of environmental exposures such as:
Effect of Occupational Exposures on Male Fertility: Literature Review
Sheiner et al, Industrial Health, Vol. 41 (2003) No. 2 P 55-62
http://doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.41.55
Wouldn’t it be nice if there actually was good quantitative data available? I’m getting an impression from a quick search on the topic that it may not be. I think my next step, after reading a bunch of papers to get a better understanding of the topic, would be to contact some of the researchers I respected after reading their work, to ask them if they are aware of any studies. If the individual researchers doing work in the field aren’t aware of any, then they probably don’t exist.
Nice! I appreciate the response. I’ll read the papers you’ve mentioned and ask my doctor about mechanisms and keywords. For reasons of severe akrasia, I don’t expect to report back here or write anything up.
In the spirit of “flipping a coin a few times actually gives you a decent amount of info on whether it’s fair”, I might ask around for anecdotal evidence on people who’ve tried banking after being on hormones a while.
I think you are going to have to find the relevant information yourself by looking through scientific papers. I don’t think that asking your doctor will be sufficient. It is rare to find a doctor who keeps up with reading all of the newest scientific journal articles.
Where your doctor might help is in explaining the mechanism by which the infertility may happen, to help you get more keywords with which to look stuff up.
It may be that quantitative answers for your questions are not available at all. From the link you mentioned, it says that as of 2009 there have been no studies of fertility after prolonged use of estrogen. For people unfamiliar with the state of medical science, it can be disorienting to learn that a lot of things simply haven’t been studied. There is so much that we as a civilization and society do not know.
From: https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/10/06/cross-sex-hormone-therapy-female-hormones/
And those references are:
If I was going to attempt to answer this question, I would start by reading those papers, to orient myself. I would also put as many keywords as I could think of into Google Scholar to see if I could find more papers on similar topics. https://scholar.google.com
A quick search for “Hormone Replacement Therapy fertility cross-sex” and “male fertility estrogen hrt” found some papers on diabetes risks, cardiovascular risks, but not much about fertility. The search that mentioned estrogen seemed to find more specific articles and included studies of environmental exposures such as:
Effect of Occupational Exposures on Male Fertility: Literature Review Sheiner et al, Industrial Health, Vol. 41 (2003) No. 2 P 55-62 http://doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.41.55
Wouldn’t it be nice if there actually was good quantitative data available? I’m getting an impression from a quick search on the topic that it may not be. I think my next step, after reading a bunch of papers to get a better understanding of the topic, would be to contact some of the researchers I respected after reading their work, to ask them if they are aware of any studies. If the individual researchers doing work in the field aren’t aware of any, then they probably don’t exist.
Nice! I appreciate the response. I’ll read the papers you’ve mentioned and ask my doctor about mechanisms and keywords. For reasons of severe akrasia, I don’t expect to report back here or write anything up.
In the spirit of “flipping a coin a few times actually gives you a decent amount of info on whether it’s fair”, I might ask around for anecdotal evidence on people who’ve tried banking after being on hormones a while.
Thank you for writing this. <3