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sex change

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sex change
n.
The modification of a person's biological sex characteristics, by surgery and hormone treatment, to approximate those of the opposite sex.
sex change
n
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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Noun1.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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Punlop Tongchai is awake for the entire two hours it takes to be turned into a woman on the operating table of a Bangkok sex change clinic, realising a childhood dream.
Thailand tightens sex change laws by AFP / AFP Asian Edition
Punlop Tongchai is awake for the entire two hours it takes to be turned into a woman on the operating table of a Bangkok sex change clinic, realising a childhood dream.
Thailand tightens sex change laws by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Forty-four-year-old British boxer, Rob Newbiggin, will go through a sex change procedure and become a woman.
Rob Newbiggin to become a woman by International Business Times - US ed.
 
 
 
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