"Sex Change" vs. "Gender Reassignment Surgery"

[Edge]

I call it bottom surgery or use specific terms such as phalloplasty. Not sure if people understand what I'm talking about, but I'd rather not be talking about it at all.

[ErinM]

Like others in general I prefer SRS because that's what's being changed.

For people I know well enough to discuss it with I simply refer to it as "my surgery" or even just surgery. The nature of it is pretty much implied.

[Lo]

If I could ever get the procedures I wanted without it making me look like Frankenstein's monster (don't ever google for images of "vaginectomy". just. don't.) because it's so rare and the medical community isn't likely interested in making it more cosmetically appealing, I don't know what I'd call it. Probably just "vaginectomy". I don't think many people would be quite prepared to consider the reality of a person without any anatomical sex whatsoever and have that reflect their internal gender identity. I wouldn't be getting a sex reassignment in any way. So I'd probably prefer the medical term, or something very vague, like that "corrective surgical intervention" mentioned earlier.

[Natkat]

I just say bottom surgery. "the penis surgery" the kitty surgery"

[Jenna Marie]

I usually use GRS, but I think of it as "genital reassignment surgery," because that's what it felt like to me. I changed my gender when I began living full-time as a woman, and I changed my sex (for all useful intents and purposes) when I got the sex marker changed with the state, Social Security, and all my other legal ID and documents. What was in my pants was irrelevant to both processes, which is as it should be.

[Missy~rmdlm]

I put MtF SRS on my actual surgical application. None of the terms generally in use offend me. But it's being a bit coy to call it GCS or whatever, there most defiantly better be a change/reassignment involved because I don't want what I have.

[Lesley_Roberta]

I call it surgery and that's all I call it.

I don't make any fuss over any other surgical procedures either. I didn't call it hernia surgery for instance.

If someone asks me what the surgery is for, I'll tell them, I'm ditching these unwanted parts and getting the right ones. They can call it whatever they want inside their head.

[Silvermist]

I think I like Birth Defect Correction - BDC!

But what about the trans people who don't feel that it's a "birth defect" for them?

I prefer SRS, "sex reassignment surgery," because it's the original term, the most common term, an accurate term, and also an inoffensive and neutral term. I like how it implies that sex is distinct from gender. But that being said, I don't think that it's necessarily the most accurate term. IMO, that would be "genital reconstruction surgery." However, "GRS" seems to be most often interpreted as "gender reassignment surgery," which I think is completely inaccurate (and ignorant if it's being used by a cis person). I have issues with terms that include words like "confirming," "affirming," and "reaffirming" because they place too much emphasis on modifying the body as the source of relief for gender dysphoria; as we all know, relieving GD has just as much to do with being socially accepted and treated properly. Obviously, people are free to use whatever term that they wish, but I do get annoyed when they simply throw out an uncommon acronym for it and expect to be understood. There are already so many acronyms and terms for trans people to learn when they become part of the community.

I have used "sex change" plenty of times in the past, and I will probably continue to do so. I dislike the term because of the cultural baggage and stereotypes, but it's just easier to tell cis people than to soliloquize about the nuances of being transgender.