Sex reassignment surgery Also known as sex change or gender
reassignment surgery, sex reassignment surgery is a procedure
that changes genital organs from one gender to another. There
are two main reasons to alter the genital organs from one sex to
another. - Newborns with intersex deformities must early on be
assigned to one sex or the other. These deformities represent
intermediate stages between the primordial female genitals and
the change into male genitals caused by male hormone
stimulation. - Both men and women occasionally believe they are
physically a different sex than they are mentally and
emotionally. This dissonance is so profound that they are
willing to be surgically altered. In both cases, technical
considerations favor successful conversion to a female rather
than a male. Newborns with ambiguous organs will almost always
be assigned to the female gender unless the penis is at least an
inch long. Whatever their chromosomes, they are much more likely
to be socially well adjusted as females, eve