gender affirmation surgery

English

Noun

gender affirmation surgery (countable and uncountable, plural gender affirmation surgeries)

1. Synonym of gender-affirming surgery

   2021, Arya Andre Akhavan, Shabaaz Sandhu, Idorenyin Ndem, Adeyemi A Ogunleye, “A review of gender affirmation surgery: What we know, and what we need to know”, in Surgery, volume 170, number 1, →DOI, →PMID, pages 336–340:

   Gender-affirmation surgery is a rapidly growing field in plastic surgery, urologic surgery, and gynecologic surgery. […] However, the details of gender-affirmation surgery are less well-known to other surgical subspecialties and other medical subspecialties.