English

Alternative forms

• sexual reassignment surgery

Noun

sex reassignment surgery ‎(plural sex reassignment surgeries)

1. Any surgical procedure that adjusts genitalia and other physical sex characteristics in order to achieve a (usually normative) result, typically employed by transsexual and sometimes by intersex people to achieve anatomy conforming to their gender identities. (Abbreviation: SRS.)

Synonyms

• bottom surgery (as opposed to top surgery)
• gender reassignment surgery (GRS)
• gender confirmation surgery
• sex change, sex-change operation (deprecated)

Translations

See also

• gender identity disorder
• HRT
• labiaplasty
• mastectomy
• orchidectomy
• phalloplasty
• transgender
• transitioning
• transsexuality
• vaginoplasty