Credit: SWNS / Kenny Ethan Jones
A trans man says donating his eggs so his sister can have a baby was the "easiest decision" he’s ever made - despite worrying about feeling "less of a man".
Kenny Ethan Jones, 30, has harvested 13 of his eggs so far and chosen to donate them to sister, Kizzy, 38 - who has struggled for six years to get pregnant.
He originally wanted to undergo the procedure - in which the patient takes medication and has surgery to retrieve their eggs - after transitioning "years ago".
But his gender dysphoria - a sense of unease that someone may have with their gender - was so severe, he needed to prioritise his mental health.
A trans man says donating his eggs so his sister can have a baby was the "easiest decision" he’s ever made - despite worrying about feeling "less of a man".
Kenny Ethan Jones, 30, has harvested 13 of his eggs so far and chosen to donate them to sister, Kizzy, 38 - who has struggled for six years to get pregnant.
He originally wanted to undergo the procedure - in which the patient takes medication and has surgery to retrieve their eggs - after transitioning "years ago".
But his gender dysphoria - a sense of unease that someone may have with their gender - was so severe, he needed to prioritise his mental health.
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00:00I'm transgender and I'm harvesting my eggs for my sister.
00:11I'm super nervous right now.
00:14Cool, she's about to calm me down, but...
00:20I can't believe I'm doing this.
00:23I'm gonna hold her hand up.
00:25I think I'm gonna have to come out.
00:30Why didn't I harvest my eggs before I transitioned?
00:37Why didn't I harvest my eggs before I transitioned?
00:40Before I medically transitioned, I was experiencing intense gender dysphoria.
00:44And so for me, alleviating that became urgent and more important than the idea of having a biological child someday in the future.
00:52That was the right decision for me and I'm really glad that I did it that way.
00:55Because had I went into a process that was going to make me more aware of my body at that point in time, it would have broke me.
01:03What the research said is that cis women who had high levels of testosterone tend to have more eggs in their egg reserve.
01:09So actually, being on testosterone has potentially benefited me in this situation.
01:14Is there anything in this process that surprised me in good or bad ways?
01:18There's definitely two things that come to mind.
01:20The first being that I have PCOS, which I've never been diagnosed for.
01:23And the second thing is definitely how the doctors and nurses have treated me throughout this process.
01:28I feel like my identity has been completely respected, no matter what room I've walked into or who I've spoken to.
01:34I don't know why I'm getting upset by that.
01:36You're gonna blame the hormones.
01:39It's just, it's really special.
01:41It's really special.
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