sex reassignment surgery

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sex reassignment surgery

n.
The modification of a person's biological sex characteristics by surgery to produce those of the opposite sex.
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Summary: They suffer from congenital defects and have masculine features; sex change operation recommended.
Cairo: Egypt's leading Islamic Al Azhar University said on Thursday it would not allow an engineering lecturer to keep her post in the state-run institution after having undergone a sex change operation to become a woman.
After admitting having a sex change operation, Jose aka Keysa was put on trial and has now been convicted of child abuse in relation to the allegations concerning the nine-year-old boy.
A TRANSGENDER woman claims she lived in a cafe for three years to save enough cash to pay for a sex change operation.
STORYVILLE: SEX ADDICT HEIST - THE DOG (10pm BBC4) ON August 22, 1972 John Wojtowicz held up the Chase Manhattan Bank in Brooklyn New York to get money to pay for his gay lover's sex change operation.
The court heard she changed her name to Melissa in 2000 and is due to undergo a full sex change operation. Adam Sharpe, defending, said: "She is disgusted at what she did.
"The medical examiner will note down their current situation before they undergo a sex change operation abroad.
So people who want to change their sexual identity must undergo a sex change operation in order that their feeling of identity be formalized in their documents.
His sex change operation was carried out with the full knowledge and consent of the wife and they continue to live together as a married couple.
Opting for a sex change operation is a choice made by some who feel trapped in the wrong body and gender
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