Has anyone had experience with freezing their eggs and getting half fertilised in the northwest England? I’m based in and around Liverpool/ Warrington/ Manchester area. I never thought I’d ever want kids but realise now it was the dysphoria talking so now knowing I want lower surgery in the near future I don’t want to take the option anyway from myself so want to look into egg freezing.
My partner is a cis male however, he has been struggling with stress at work after a pretty catastrophic event in December 2024 that’s left him with cptsd. It has had an effect on his T levels which are now very low however doctors have recommended that due to the low levels he should freeze sperm or fertilise eggs pretty soon before starting trt. He has tried all the non hormone therapy route to increase t levels but they aren’t working. We decided if I want my eggs frozen anyway we could freeze half as embryos that way since it’s a relatively new relationship (4yrs but we r both very take it slow people) if anything happens I’d still have the option of having eggs without his dna plus I’d consider depending on how many we get donating any.
So far I’ve contacted a well known fertility clinic with locations all over the north west but they’d charge over double to fertilise some because they class it as two separate procedures taking the price from around 3k to over 8k which just would not be affordable.
Has anyone else done something similar and had a better price? I need the clinic to be very informed and supportive of tran people and our right to fertility without the fear of being judged, misgendered etc and so far this clinic is the only one that actively promotes themselves to trans people so now I’m a bit lost. Thanks for reading apologies it’s a long post and thanks for any advice anyone has 😊