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'''Sexual Reassignment''' entails removing (or creating) an approximation of the genitals of the opposite sex.
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'''Sexual Reassignment''' refers to several [[surgery|surgical]] procedures performed to make the genitals and secondary sex characterisitcs of an individual more like those of the opposite sex.
    
Some of the people who pursue this surgery are from the following categories of gender-confused individuals:
 
Some of the people who pursue this surgery are from the following categories of gender-confused individuals:
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* Transsexuals: Individuals belonging in this group were born into one gender but identify emotionally and psychologically with the other.  
 
* Transsexuals: Individuals belonging in this group were born into one gender but identify emotionally and psychologically with the other.  
 
* Intersexed: An intersexed person is someone who was born with ambiguous genitalia, so doctors assigned him/her a specific gender at birth. Sometimes this assignment doesn't correlate with the biological XX or XY gender. These children are socialized as a certain gender, but as they grow older, they might not necessarily identify as they were assigned and would want to switch to the opposite gender.
 
* Intersexed: An intersexed person is someone who was born with ambiguous genitalia, so doctors assigned him/her a specific gender at birth. Sometimes this assignment doesn't correlate with the biological XX or XY gender. These children are socialized as a certain gender, but as they grow older, they might not necessarily identify as they were assigned and would want to switch to the opposite gender.
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==See also==
 
==See also==
 
[[sex change]]
 
[[sex change]]
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[[category:Medicine]]
 
[[Category:Sexuality]]
 
[[Category:Sexuality]]
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