Quote from: Missy~rmdlm on December 22, 2013, 01:34:38 PM
These stories strike me as fishy. It appears that FtMs rarely go sterile from T. That's probably just perception, but this keeps happening. Then there is the MtF involved. Again why would there be an assumption of sterility? I have a T level of 4 as of a few days ago...So that has little to do with sperm! It's my assumption to use BC until a person wants children or otherwise proven infertile. It's not rocket science. I have no kids. I have no assumption of sterility. It's not a miracle.
The majority, while on T, are actually sterile, that's just medical fact really. I don't know where you get the idea that pregnant transmen are common though. Where does this "keep happening"? It's not like it's noteworthy for guys to come out and constantly say "I'm not pregnant, guys!" To compare, homosexuals make up a small percentage of the population but it you were to go off noted examples, we don't have news reports for famous people coming out as straight and so on. In terms of news, more people come out saying they're gay than straight, so is the world more gay than straight these days? What we see as noted examples or news worthy articles are always exceptional cases as opposed to the every day "norm" as that's not worth hearing about. Every day people die from violence, but billions more live without any violence occurring. A tornado kills a few folks in one city while billions live without weather affecting them negatively. We talk about the former examples, not the normal, every day cases.
It's actually more perceived for it to be far more common for FTMs to be adverse to pregnancy and, as such, take precautions, as recommended, to avoid pregnancy all together, even on T where it's less likely, though never guaranteed. It's harmful for the baby to be taking T while pregnant too so a lot of the cases of pregnant transmen are planned, so they stop T and let their internal bodies go back to female (chemically speaking) in order to bring back menstruation and at least the chance to get pregnant. And to go even further, penetrative sex isn't something all FTMs are into. I don't want to speak out of place, but purely based on my own experience, there's far more adverse to it that I know than welcome to the idea. So when you add it all up, the number of transguys on T, getting pregnant by accident is actually very few and extremely uncommon.
But anyway, menstruation is a major part of the ovulation cycle along with temperature fluctuations (flushes) that help mark particular stages, and T overwhelms the estrogen production. We lose menstruation and those temperature fluctuations as a result of the dominant hormone (T) overrunning the system and thereby reducing the estrogen production and thus circulation in the body which thereby stops the cycle or at least affect cycle efficiency early on. This is why, while MTFs still have testes, they require T blockers (and by the way, less T does actually affect virility, as T is a vital part of Spermatogenesis so the sperm quality is affected with HRT). By comparison FTMs don't need to block estrogen, we just need the T itself and that's like 2 birds with one stone. Even after a hysto, it's very often the case that T doses either don't change or change by very little. So you can't really properly compare virility of FTMs with MTFs because it's an entirely different process for change. At low levels of T, there can still be enough to allow Spermatogenesis to occur to sufficient levels to keep virility, but for FTMs, mensturation cessations affects the very cycle required for successful fertilisation to occur and that is why T can cause the irreversible loss of virility. And within months can render the person infertile. They can go off HRT with the chance fertility comes back (length of time on T can make a difference here but everyone's different), but while on T, the number of guys having unprotected, penetrative sex that results in a unplanned pregnancy are very much in the minority.
But for the OPs question: me, personally, not a chance in hell! And I agree with Simon, this sort of situation should be seen more as an exception than a rule. I don't think any MTF should entertain the hope that being with a FTM could be a way to have baby together with both parts DNA. Not to say it can't happen, as it obviously can, but it's catering to a very specific set of individuals in what's already a small pool of people. The odds aren't in your favour with that one.
