Definition of sex change in US English:
sex change
nounˈsɛks ˌtʃeɪndʒˈseks ˌCHānj
A change in a person's physical sexual characteristics, typically by surgery and hormone treatment.
he campaigned to have his sex change legally recognized
as modifier a sex-change operation
Example sentencesExamples
- The sex change genital surgery for male transsexuals differs greatly from that for female transsexuals.
- Courts in Australia have previously legally recognised a sex change for the purposes of the criminal law and Social Security law.
- I can't imagine a tougher choice to make than the one to have a sex change operation.
- He'd never given any indication of disapproving of my sex change.
- Eighteen months ago Gill was a man, before she underwent a sex change.
- He not only divorced his fourth wife but also underwent a sex change.
- And this branch of government petitions the court to permit a child to have a sex change.
- Mark is due to have a sex change operation next week and he wishes to know whether or not this will make the marriage null and void.
- The man says he needs the money to help finance a sex change operation!
- The reason she had left him was because he had a sex change operation and was a drug addict.
- At the time Jake asked me to photograph his sex change in 1996, his name was Deb.
- She had undergone a complete sex change operation, which her husband knew before marrying her.
- Myron has decided, for reasons we do not know, to have a sex change operation and become Myra.
- The letter was a recommendation that a sex change be performed on the patient.
- The sex change (or gender realignment as they prefer to call it) proved no great problem.
- Furthermore, Miller claimed, Larry was taking female hormones in preparation for a sex change operation.
- I am positive that it is the same person because she still has the same face and I've heard that this person has had a sex change.
- She will live as a woman for 12 months before deciding whether to have a sex change operation.
- But due to her sex change operation, the obligation will most likely be waived.
- Men switching gender identity have to live as women for 12 months before a sex change operation can be considered.