sex reassignment surgery

English

Noun

sex reassignment surgery (countable and uncountable, plural sex reassignment surgeries) (abbreviated SRS)

1. (transgender, sometimes proscribed) Surgical procedure that alters a person's sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender, particularly for transgender people, or to conform to societal standards for intersex people to present in a dyadic fashion, the latter often done without consent.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gender-affirming surgery

Hyponyms

• bottom surgery
• top surgery

Coordinate terms

• hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
• facial feminization surgery (FFS)
• facial masculinization surgery (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
• Portuguese: cirurgia de redesignação sexual 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

References

• “sex reassignment”, in Merriam-Webster.com Medical Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster.
• “Glossary of Terms: Transgender”, in GLAAD, 2024 August 26 (last accessed)