sex reassignment surgery

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  • sexual reassignment surgery

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sex reassignment surgery (countable and uncountable, plural sex reassignment surgeries) (abbreviated SRS)

  1. Any surgical procedure that changes a person's sex characteristics so that they conform to a standard, particularly those decided by transgender people for themselves or for intersex people to present in a dyadic fashion, the latter often done without consent.

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