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sex change

1. surgical procedures by which a person's sexual characteristics are changed to that of the other sex (mastectomy, phalloplasty, vaginoplasty and other procedures) The term also applies to the surgery done on intersexed people.
2. somewhat inaccurate term for gender reassignment which includes hormone replacement therapy and sex reassignment surgery.
Homosexuals don't 'get a sex change', transsexuals do.
by CGale December 28, 2005
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