This article, brought to you in partnership with researchers who focus on menstruation studies, asks a critical question: trans women don’t menstruate, but do they experience the ebbs and flows of a menstrual cycle? Learn more about their study and what they found!

Two new studies focused on trans and non-binary fertility and family-building are seeking participants!

Public support of transgender parents is increasing, according to a 2016 study.

Although many options are available, the majority of trans youth do not end up preserving their fertility. We simply don’t know enough yet about whether these youth will have regrets about their decision, but the authors of this 2017 study draw parallels to the millions of adults who experience infertility and identify that struggles with fertility cause multiple negative psychosocial impacts.

Countering many myths about egg health and testosterone, this 2019 Boston IVF study found that egg quality and quantity (in addition to other variables around pregnancy and egg harvesting) were the same between transgender men and cisgender women.