Japan sees its first sex change.A group of doctors said on October 16 that they had conducted Japan's first-ever legal sex-change operation Noun 1. sex-change operation - surgical procedures and hormonal treatments designed to alter a person's sexual characteristics so that the resemble those of the opposite sex transsexual surgery on a 30-year-old woman. In the operation--the first of a series needed to complete the transformation--doctors said they removed the breasts, uterus, and ovaries Ovaries The female sex organs that make eggs and female hormones. Mentioned in: Choriocarcinoma ovaries (ō´v of a woman suffering from a gender-identity disorder. The Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology neurology (n  rŏl`əjē, ny–), study of the morphology, physiology, and pathology of the human nervous system. released guidelines in May conditionally allowing sex changes in Japan, where they had long been considered taboo.
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