Suzan Cooke wrote:
> I had my sex change operation in 1972 and consider "Sex Change" to
> be a very acceptable colloquial version of Sex Reassignment Surgery.
> Given that the genital surgery changes that visual appearance from
> male to female or from female to male then it is indeed if some what
> crudely put a "sex change operation"
Perhaps geography and politics are an issue here. In a country, like
the UK, where surgery is irrelevant to change of sex in law a public
service broadcaster might choose not to use a term which inaccurately
suggests that surgery changes sex.
Lynette
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