transition
She has not yet decided whether to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
Sex reassignment surgery is a major operation and the cultural shift from presenting as male to presenting as female is a major change of lifestyle.
Sex reassignment surgery consists of processes transgender women and men take in order to match their anatomical sex to their gender identity.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Medical treatment: surgery
ablate
ablation
adenoidectomy
adrenalectomy
allograft
amputation
anaesthesia
blood transfusion
endarterectomy
endonasal
enterostomy
enucleate
enucleated
general anaesthetic
prostatectomy
pump something out
reduction mammaplasty
regraft
reimplant
suture