Professional medical organizations have established Standards of Care that apply before someone can apply for and receive reassignment surgery, including psychological evaluation, and a period of real-life experience living in the desired gender.įeminization surgeries are surgeries that result in anatomy that is typically gendered female. The term is also sometimes used to describe surgical intervention for intersex people. It is part of a treatment for gender dysphoria in transgender people. Sex reassignment surgery ( SRS), also known as gender reassignment surgery ( GRS) and several other names, is a surgical procedure (or procedures) by which a transgender person's physical appearance and function of their existing sexual characteristics are altered to resemble those socially associated with their identified gender.
