medical Definition of sex reassignment
: gender reassignment
- In the conventional narrative about sex reassignment, a person is so sure from such a young age that he or she inhabits the wrong body that a surgically corrected self is a lifelong dream.
- —Lisa Miller, New York Magazine, 8 Sept. 2014
- …} he metamorphosed into a woman through exhaustive estrogen therapy, electrolysis on every last facial hair follicle, and sex reassignment surgery.
- —Noelle Howey, Ms., October/November 1999
