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gender reassignment

gen·der re·as·sign·ment


noun 
Definition:
 
1. acknowledgment of person's new gender identity: the acknowledgment of a person's belief that his or her true mental and emotional sex does not correspond to his or her apparent anatomical sex

2. medicine treatment to look like opposite sex: a surgical operation, usually with accompanying hormone treatment, that changes somebody's physical characteristics to approximate those of the opposite sex

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