There are numerous other expressions that are used to refer to this type of surgery apart from<unk>  and gender<unk>  surgery. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) uses the term gender confirmation surgery or GCS and many transgender people prefer this terminology. Other terms include gender-affirming surgery,<unk>  change operation, genital reconstruction surgery,<unk>  realignment surgery,<unk>  reconstruction surgery, and top surgery and bottom surgery referring to surgeries of the chest and genitals respectively. Some transgender people who desire medical assistance to transition from one<unk>  to another identify as transsexual. A trans woman assigned male at birth and seeking feminizing surgery may have one or more of the procedures used for trans women, which go by various names, such as feminizing genitoplasty, penectomy, orchiectomy, or vaginoplasty. A trans man assigned female at birth and seeking masculinizing surgery may undergo one or more procedures, which may include hysterectomy, oophorectomy, metoidioplasty, or phalloplasty.
Sex reassignment surgery
Sex reassignment therapy
Androgen replacement therapy
Transgender hormone therapy
Genital reconstructive surgery
Feminizing hormone therapy
Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy
Chemical castration