treatment: sex reassignment surgery (SRS)

Surgical procedure to alter anatomical characteristics from male-to-female or female-to-male gender transition, usually to address Gender Identity Disorder.

• Kotula, Dean et al The Phallus Palace: Female to Male Transsexuals (Paperback - July 2002) - The experience of feeling as though one has been born in a body of the wrong gender and the prospect of correcting the problem through sex reassignment surgery may be so alien and threatening to most of us that we look the other way and pretend such problems can't be real. Such denial breeds ignorance and prejudice which fuel a vicious cycle in which the patient must often suffer in silence and isolation. This book must be a godsend to both patient and family. Not only does it take the reader into the operating room, but it also tells the stories of real individuals who have made the transition. This is not a sterile clinical treatise but a sensitive and uninhibited exploration.