From House of Commons Hansard
Written Answers: 2nd May 2006

Department of Health

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Gender Reassignment Operations

Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 27 February 2006, Official Report, column 446W, on gender reassignment operations, what is meant by combined operations for (a) male to female and (b) female to male gender reassignment operations. [57184]

Mr. Byrne: The office for population censuses and surveys 4.2 codes X15.1 and X15.2, combined operations are intended to cover cases where the patient

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has one or more operation at the same time. As part of gender reassignment surgery these may include reconstruction of the genitals, the removal of female breasts, the shaping of a male contoured chest, and the shaping of a female contoured chest. There is no precise definition as to what combined operations may consist of.

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