Planning Ahead

Before hormones or surgery changes what is possible, there is a decision with a deadline: whether to bank eggs, sperm or embryos against a future self who might want children — asked of people often young, often overwhelmed, always on a clock.

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts from trans and nonbinary writers cover the preservation crossroads: pausing or delaying transition for retrieval cycles, the dysphoria of fertility clinics built for other patients, the costs insurance rarely met, and the outcomes — embryos waiting in cryostorage, a parent years later thanking their younger self, samples never used and paid for annually, and the writers who declined preservation and stand by it. Partners and parents narrate alongside.

Who it's for

For anyone weighing fertility preservation before transition, mid-cycle in a clinic that doesn't fit, or revisiting a choice made years ago.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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