1. surgical procedures and hormonal treatments designed to alter a person's sexual characteristics so that the resemble those of the opposite sex; [syn: sex-change operation, transsexual surgery]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
transsexual surgery
n 1: surgical procedures and hormonal treatments designed to
alter a person's sexual characteristics so that the
resemble those of the opposite sex [syn: sex-change
operation, transsexual surgery]