Table 3.
Comparison of "Transgender Youth Fertility Attitudes Questionnaire" responses for transgender and gender expansive (TGE) adolescents and their caregivers in Wave 5.
| TGE Adolescent Items | Caregiver Items | Response, n |
TGE Adolescent
(n = 29) |
Caregiver (n = 44) |
Wilcoxon Z
(p-value) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| It is important to learn about how hormone treatment might affect my ability to have my own biological children. | It is important to learn about how hormone treatment might affect my child’s ability to have biological children. | Agree | 22 | 39 | 0.2514 |
| I don’t know | 3 | 1 | |||
| Disagree | 4 | 4 | |||
| I am aware that hormone treatment could cause issues with my ability to have my own biological children. | I am aware that hormone treatment could cause issues with my child’s ability to have their own biological children. | Agree | 28 | 41 | 1 |
| I don’t know | 0 | 2 | |||
| Disagree | 1 | 0 | |||
| I feel like I have people to talk to (like my doctor or therapist) about how hormone treatment could affect my ability to have my own biological children. | I feel like I have people to talk to (like a doctor or therapist) about how hormone treatment could affect my child’s ability to have biological children. | Agree | 26 | 39 | 1 |
| I don’t know | 2 | 3 | |||
| Disagree | 1 | 1 | |||
| I feel like I have people to talk to (like my doctor or therapist) about what I can do to have my own biological children if I’m taking hormones. | I would like to talk to someone about what my child can do to have biological children if they are taking hormones. | Agree | 26 | 11 | NA* |
| I don’t know | 2 | 9 | |||
| Disagree | 1 | 24 | |||
| I want to have kids someday. (This could be either your own biological kids or adopted kids). | I want my child to have kids someday. (This could be either their own biological kids or adopted kids). | Agree | 18 | 25 | 0.9753 |
| I don’t know | 5 | 15 | |||
| Disagree | 6 | 4 | |||
| If I have kids, it would be important to me that they are my biological kids. | If my child has kids, it is important to me that they are my child’s biological kids. | Agree | 5 | 0 | 0.0009 |
| I don’t know | 5 | 2 | |||
| Disagree | 19 | 41 | |||
| I would consider adoption someday. | I am open to my child adopting someday. | Agree | 27 | 44 | 0.309 |
| I don’t know | 1 | 0 | |||
| Disagree | 1 | 0 | |||
| My feelings about wanting my own biological child might change when I’m older. | My child’s feelings about wanting their own biological child might change in the future. | Agree | 13 | 31 | 0.028 |
| I don’t know | 9 | 9 | |||
| Disagree | 8 | 4 | |||
| I would be angry if the doctor didn’t tell me that hormone treatment could affect my ability to have my own biological children. | I would be angry if the doctor didn’t tell me that my child’s hormone treatment could affect their ability to have biological children. | Agree | 17 | 37 | 0.029 |
| I don’t know | 7 | 3 | |||
| Disagree | 5 | 4 | |||
| I am aware that there are options that would allow me to have my own biological child even if I’m on hormones. | I am aware that there are options that would allow my child to have biological children in the future (even if on hormones). | Agree | 23 | 34 | 0.9512 |
| I don’t know | 1 | 7 | |||
| Disagree | 5 | 3 | |||
| I feel pressured by my family to have my own biological child someday. | I would like my child to have their own biological child someday. | Agree | 2 | 14 | NA |
| I don’t know | 2 | 20 | |||
| Disagree | 25 | 10 | |||
| I would feel that I’m disappointing my family if I could not have my own biological child. | I would feel disappointed if my child could not have their own biological child. | Agree | 2 | 4 | 0.8183 |
| I don’t know | 1 | 2 | |||
| Disagree | 26 | 37 | |||
| I would consider medical procedures that would allow me to preserve my eggs or sperm in order to have my own biological children in the future. | I want my child to consider medical procedures that would preserve their eggs or sperm to be able to have their own biological children in the future. | Agree | 7 | 15 | 0.3054 |
| I don’t know | 8 | 13 | |||
| Disagree | 14 | 16 | |||
| My family wants me to preserve my eggs or sperm. | I want my child to preserve eggs or sperm. | Agree | 2 | 8 | 0.0767 |
| I don’t know | 9 | 17 | |||
| Disagree | 18 | 18 | |||
| How did you learn that hormone treatment could make it checkbox difficult for you to have your own biological child(ren)? (Check as many as are true.) |
How did you learn that hormone treatment could make it difficult for your child to have their own biological child(ren)? (Check as many as are true.) |
Doctor | 27 | 36 | |
| Internet | 19 | 18 | |||
| Parent/ Guardian |
8 | – | |||
| Spouse | – | 3 | |||
| Peers | 6 | 8 | |||
| Did not know | 0 | 4 |
*
p-value not provided as TGE and caregiver questions are not comparable.