If you are taking testosterone and you think you may be. If you are taking testosterone and want to become pregnant, it's important to talk to your healthcare provider about stopping taking it. Testosterone is actually teratogenic (meaning it can cause birth defects) in the fetus. If you're taking testosterone and think you might be pregnant, talk to your healthcare professional as soon as possible.
If you are pregnant, avoid starting treatment with testosterone, as it will harm the developing fetus (. You can get pregnant while taking testosterone. Although the chance of pregnancy is greatly reduced with the use of testosterone, the risk of pregnancy is still there. If your uterus or ovaries haven't been removed and you don't want to become pregnant, you should use birth control when you have sex with a partner in whom you can become pregnant. The developing fetus may be harmed by the side effects of testosterone.
Testosterone is teratogenic (meaning it can cause birth defects) in the fetus because it can cross the placental barrier. A person undergoing hormone replacement treatment should see a doctor if they think they may be pregnant or if a pregnancy test comes back positive while taking testosterone. In this same study, some of the transgender men who had their eggs extracted chose to become pregnant through in vitro fertilization (the eggs were fertilized with sperm in a laboratory and the resulting embryo was reimplanted in their body).). However, we know that it's possible to get pregnant after taking testosterone, as demonstrated by Thomas Beatie, Freddy McConnell, and many other trans men who have become parents after hormone therapy.
When you have sex with your partner, when you can get pregnant, if your uterus or ovaries haven't been removed and you don't want to get pregnant, you should use birth control. If you are undergoing hormonal treatment but have had a hysterectomy, you will not be able to get pregnant, since you no longer have a uterus to procreate a pregnancy. It's important to pause and think about people who weren't included in this questionnaire, such as trans men with testosterone who wanted and tried to get pregnant, but couldn't. It is very unlikely, but possible, that people who were assigned female gender at birth (AFAB), who have been taking testosterone for some time and have stopped having menstrual periods, will become pregnant.
When testosterone treatment is stopped, this may be reversible, and trans men who have received long-term testosterone treatment have reported that they have become pregnant. You have the same amount of time until conception (time spent trying to get pregnant), the same pregnancy experiences, and the same delivery results. Even if you sleep with someone who is taking hormonal hormone therapy, there's still a chance that you can get pregnant if you don't use birth control. If they decide to become pregnant, they should stop taking testosterone therapy and wait until their doctor gives the go-ahead to start trying.
While you can still get pregnant with testosterone therapy, if you want to carry your pregnancy to term, you'll have to stop hormone therapy completely. While testosterone can make it difficult to ovulate, it doesn't eliminate the chance of getting pregnant.
