sex change

a. a change in a person's physical sexual characteristics to those of the opposite sex, often achieved by surgery

b. (as modifier): a sex-change operation.

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sex′ change`

the alteration, by surgery and hormone treatments, of a person's morphological sex characteristics to approximate those of the opposite sex.

[1975–80]

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sex change - a change in a person's physical sexual characteristics (as by surgery and hormone treatments)

alteration, change, modification - an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another; "the change was intended to increase sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse"; "the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago"

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