sex change
15
4.2
- noun
- /sɛks ʧeɪndʒ/
- Specialized
:
cambio de sexo
- I leave... ...$2,700... ...from my $10,000 life insurance policy... ...to be used... ...for your sex change operation.
- bidirectional sex change
- protandrous sex change
Countries that were promoting this idea of a sex change, which we all know isn't real anyway.
- Countries that were promoting this idea of a sex change, which we all know isn't real anyway.
- Not only in plastic surgery and reconstructive surgery, but also in sex change surgery.
- In fact, one of the world's leading Centers for sex change surgery is in fact in Saudi Arabia and where they're doing hundreds of surgeries on intersex.
- You got the clams in prison getting sex changes.
- And those men put all their effort into it and have done really for a century since doctors first being said that they could offer sex change.
Examples
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Some intersex people choose to live as men or women and have sex change operations.
Blog text (29) -
Have you considered a sex change?
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Now if you want a sex change, I'll find you a doctor.
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The procedure I'll perform is commonly referred to as a sex change operation.
Fiction book (1998) -
And he got a taxpayer funded sex change surgery thanks to her.
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The most recent documents record events a few years after Veronica's sex change in 1981.
Academic text (2012) -
Stenographer Gordon Simley had a sex change operation, and is now a switch-hitter for the Atlanta Braves.
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In 1972, Morris, who was born male, underwent a sex change operation and became a woman.
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Last I heard, he became a candidate for a sex change operation.
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Now if you want a sex change, I'll find you a doctor.
Synonyms
6
5.7
Medical treatment with surgery and hormones that helps a person live as a different gender
1
6.6
Operations and hormone treatment that change a person's body so it looks more like a man or a woman
An operation to remove or change the testicles as part of a gender transition
How Extensive
- Archaic
6
5.7
- Specialized
15
4.2
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'sex' (biological classification) + 'change' (the act of becoming different), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to changing one's sex or a procedure to do so. This compound is semantically transparent and has close parallels in many languages, making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
The noun sex change comes from the simple picture of sex as the body's male or female parts and change meaning to make different. It refers to medical steps, often surgery and hormones, that alter the body so it matches how a person feels, so it means 'a medical procedure to change a person's physical sex'.