https://theconversation.com/transgender ... rky-187672
Despite it being fairly standard medical advice, there remains relatively scant empirical evidence guiding the practice of pausing testosterone therapy for trans men and nonbinary people during pregnancy and chestfeeding. There is also currently no published work on microdosing testosterone during pregnancy.
Instead, much of the medical literature on the potential developmental effects of “excess androgen” exposure in the womb focuses on pregnant people with polycystic ovary syndrome who have testosterone levels that generally fall between those for cisgender women and men. These studies center on the likelihood of the baby later developing intersex conditions, or having biological traits that do not fit binary definitions of male or female characteristics; later self-identification as lesbian or trans; metabolic and cardiovascular dysfunction, such as obesity; and neuropsychiatric disorders, such as autism and attention-deficit disorder. Most of these concerns have involved children categorized as female at birth.
People with polycystic ovary syndrome, however, are not routinely placed on testosterone blockers during pregnancy or discouraged from feeding their infants milk they produce.
In my review of our interviews and the medical literature, I became increasingly concerned that this focus on producing “normal” children fails to attend to both natural human diversity in cognitive processing, bodies and identities, and the mental health of trans and nonbinary parents. It may also echo eugenicist policies that attempt to eliminate human characteristics and communities that society deems inferior or bad. But people from these communities have done a great deal of work over the past several decades to ensure they are granted equal rights and protections
