sex reassignment surgery

English

Alternative forms

• sexual reassignment surgery

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• gender confirmation surgery
• gender-affirming surgery
• gender affirmation surgery
• sex change, sex-change operation (deprecated, often proscribed)
• gender reassignment surgery (GRS)
• gender reallocation surgery
• gender realignment surgery

Hyponyms

• bottom surgery
• top surgery

Coordinate terms

• hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
• FFS
• FMS

Translations

surgical procedure that changes a person's sex characteristics so that they conform to a standard

• Finnish: sukuelinten korjausleikkaus
• French: chirurgie de réattribution sexuelle f, chirurgie de réassignation sexuelle (fr) f
• German: Geschlechtsumwandlungsoperation f
• Hebrew: ניתוח לשינוי מין m (nitúakh leshinúi min)
• Hungarian: nemi megerősítő műtét, nemi helyreállító műtét, nemi átalakító műtét
• Italian: chirurgia di riassegnazione del sesso f
• Romanian: operație de schimbare de sex f, operație de schimbare a sexului f
• Russian: хирургическая коррекция пола f (xirurgičeskaja korrekcija pola)
• Spanish: cirugía de reasignación de sexo f
• Turkish: cinsiyet değiştirme ameliyatı