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gender reassignment

British  

noun

  1. male-to-female or female-to-male transformation involving surgery and hormone treatment

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But those who went through with medical gender reassignment didn’t experience the anticipated mental-health improvements.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

For masculinizing gender reassignment, it was 21.16% of patients before and 54.5% after.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Finnish researchers have done so in a comprehensive new report on the mental-health outcomes for youth who undergo gender reassignment treatment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

The Equality Act still offers protection to trans people, and the ruling did not affect the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2025

The protected characteristic of gender reassignment is not affected by this ruling, and Lord Hodge stressed that there are other defences against direct and indirect discrimination and harassment.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2025

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