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sex reassignment surgery

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sex reassignment surgery

Surgical treatment to alter the external appearance in the direction of the opposite sex. It is rarely performed but is sometimes justified in the case of people with ambiguous genitalia or in the case of some TRANSSEXUALS who are convinced that they are of the wrong anatomical sex.
Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005
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A former friend of Bithell's who contacted the Chronicle but wanted to remain anonymous said: "I can't believe Len is complaining he can't afford a sex-change operation when he had all that money going through his hands.
'What must the victim's family think about pounds 32,000 being spent on a sex-change operation for a convicted murderer?
It was her family who eventually came up with the money for Lauren to have her sex-change operation in London.
The guidelines say patients should receive psychiatric counseling and hormone therapy before undergoing a sex-change operation.
The police said they had earlier identified the victim as a woman, but later discovered scars from a sex-change operation, leading them to classify the victim as a man.
In The Third Memory, 2000, he restages the bank heist depicted in Sidney Lumet's 1975 Dog Day Afternoon, which starred Al Pacino as John Wojtowicz--the good-looking young robber who risked his life to pay for his lover's sex-change operation. In Huyghe's video installation, we see Wojtowicz now a heavy man in his late fifties, playing both himself and Pacino in a tantalizing mix that's all but impossible to untangle.
Keith Hull (otherwise known as Stephanie Lloyd) advised the meeting that by a legal technicality he was the club's first full female member.' Because of his sex-change operation the club already had a female member.
The main character of Triton (1976) undergoes a sex-change operation, and in this novel the author examines bias against women and homosexuals.
In a bizarre scenario evoking the sci-fi films of the 1950s, the fungus performs a sex-change operation on female catchfly plants, causing them to abort their ovaries and develop stamens -- male sex organs that normally produce pollen.
Yollada, who had a sex-change operation at 16, said on Monday that her position on the PAO council will help her work better with the government in solving problems regarding the rights of women and trans-female groups.
Mumbai A 21-year-old man from Guwahati caused a major stir at the Bombay High Court premises yesterday after threatening to commit suicide after judges refused to hear his petition seeking a ruling compelling his parents to allow him to undergo a sex-change operation.
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