Gamete storage, otherwise known as freezing one’s sperm or eggs, is expensive. It costs several thousand pounds up front and several hundred pounds every year thereafter in ‘rent’ for the clinic’s storage of the cells until they are used. Coming in the midst of the upheaval and expense of transitioning, such a cost is out of all but the richest trans people’s reach – unless, that is, it’s available on the NHS. The availability of free fertility treatment for British trans people, though, is a postcode lottery. While there is a clear funding approach for other patients who may be rendered
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