sex reassignment surgery

English

Alternative forms

• sexual reassignment surgery

Noun

sex reassignment surgery (plural sex reassignment surgeries)

1. Any surgical procedure that adjusts genitalia and other physical sex characteristics in order to achieve a (usually normative) result, typically employed by transsexuals and sometimes the intersex to achieve anatomy conforming to their gender identities. Abbreviation: SRS.

Synonyms

• bottom surgery (as opposed to top surgery)
• gender reassignment surgery (GRS)
• gender confirmation surgery
• sex change, sex-change operation (deprecated)

Translations

surgical procedure

• Finnish: sukuelinten korjausleikkaus (fi)

• French: opération de changement de sexe (fr) f, chirurgie de réattribution sexuelle (fr) f, chirurgie de réassignation sexuelle (fr) f

See also

• gender identity disorder
• HRT
• labiaplasty
• mastectomy
• orchidectomy
• phalloplasty
• transgender
• transitioning
• transsexuality
• vaginoplasty