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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.

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The case concerned the petitioner's desire to have his marriage to a transsexual individual nullified on the basis that the person to whom he was married had undergone sexual reassignment surgery and was, therefore, biologically still male.

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Since the mid-1980s, rates of regret among individuals who pursue sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) have varied from 10% to 30% (Olsson & Moller, 2006).

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3) For many transgender individuals, the only way to obtain identification that matches their lived gender is through a complete surgical reconstruction of their genitals, which is collectively referred to as sexual reassignment surgery (SRS).

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These methods include hormone treatment, psychotherapy/counseling, and/or sexual reassignment surgery.

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of California at Davis) alphabetically-arranged encyclopedia also include animal and human branding, sexual reassignment surgery, makeup, and P.

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