A Standardized Counseling Approach to Preoperative Education in Transmasculine Individuals Receiving Gender-affirming Surgery

University of Minnesota (UMN)

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Hysterectomy; Gender Affirming Surgery

Treatments: Other: Educational Handout

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07324967

OBGYN-2025-34532

Details and patient eligibility

About

The intervention will be an educational handout provided to a randomized cohort of patients that reviews the benefits and risks of retaining ovaries vs removing them. This educational handout will be provided prior to the surgical consultation at the time of the initial survey.

Enrollment: 250 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Any transgender or non-binary individual
• Age 18-65
• Assigned female at birth who desires a gender-affirming hysterectomy with or without oophorectomy
• English-speaking

Exclusion criteria

• Non-transgender individuals
• Any transgender individual who has already had a bilateral oophorectomy
• Any transgender person who was born without ovaries or a uterus
• Non-English speaking

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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250 participants in 2 patient groups

Survey Group

No Intervention group

Educational Handout + Survey Group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Educational Handout