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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n. 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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Noun

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"

sex change

The constellation of surgical and medical therapies intended to physically change a person from one sexual phenotype to the other

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Sexual reassignment, see there.

Patient discussion about sex change

Q. im looking to become a female for my lover i want to do this i have been wanting to do this all m life? I LOVE TO WARE DRESSES HIGH HELS MAKE UP AND SEXY BED ROOM CLOTHING TO .I HAVE A GRIL FRIEND AND A BOY FRIEND I LOVE THEM BOTH AND WE ALL THINK I SHOULD DO IT ?A. They did have a question, it was what do we think they should do. I would say that this person needs to seek a professional opinion. Having a sex change is no laughing matter and take a lot of time. They have to first prove to a psychiatrist that this is how they want to live their life. Then they need to live as the gender they plan on changing to for a year.

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

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