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Definition: a term used in the sex business to refer to transgender women with male genitalia and female breasts. According to University of Southern California professors Laura Castaneda and Shannon Campbell (more specifically, the school under the university’s Annenberg School of Journalism), “Using the term she-male to refer to transgender women is considered highly offensive to them and suggests that they work in the porn industry.”
The word she-male has been used since the mid-19th century as a humorous colloquialism to describe a woman, especially an aggressive one.
Etymology and origin of shemale
The term was first used in the 19th century by American Davy Crockett as a colloquial term for a woman in the following sentence: “Davy Crockett’s hand would be sure to shake if his iron was pointed within a hundred miles of a shemale.” The sentence was written in connection with a shooting match in which one of the players shot close to his opponent’s wife.
Scientific use
Some biologists have used the word she-male to describe male animals displaying male characteristics or behaviors. Biologist Joan Roughgarden has criticized the use of the term in reptile literature as degrading and borrowed from the porn industry[8]. She also wrote that gynomorphic male and andromorphic female are preferred terms.
The term is also used by some psychologists to refer to transwomen who have undergone cosmetic-surgical procedures (such as breast augmentation) but have not undergone surgical genital correction.
Association terms
Other colloquial synonyms for the word she-male also coming from the porn industry are tranny and ladyboy, as are many rhyming terms (e.g.: chicks with dicks, sluts with nuts, dolls with balls, dudes with boobs).
Some mental health studies describe attraction to transgender people as a paraphilia. John Money and Margaret Lamacz proposed the name gynemimetophilia for this phenomenon. The term Gynemimetophilia refers to sexual attraction to people of male biological sex who look or act like women, including here the attraction to transvestites and cross-dressers. The term gynemimetophilia also refers to sexual desire for transsexual and transgendered women. An associated term is gynemimesis, which is synonymous with M/K transgenderism – it refers to the adoption of feminine traits (e.g., through plastic-surgical procedures, taking female hormones) by a person with male genetic sex. This term was used by Money for classification purposes in his theory of gender transposition. He also proposed the terms gynandromorph and gynemimetomorph as technical terms for transsexual and transgendered women. A gynandromorph is an organism that possesses both male and female sex characteristics.
Psychologist Ray Blanchard and psychiatrist Peter Collins coined the term gynandromorphophilia. Sociologist Richard Ekins wrote that this interest can encompass both gender identifications. Blanchard stated that it is “partial autogynephilia.”Psychiatrist Vernon Rosario called terms of this type as treating as a thing people who are sexually interested in transgender people.
Connotations
In 1979, Janice Raymond used the term shemale as a derogatory term for transgender people in her controversial book, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male. Raymond and other cultural feminists have argued whether “she-male” and “male-to-constructed female” is still male or not and whether it represents a patriarchal attack by men against female essentialism.
Psychologists Dana Finnegan and Emily Mcnally wrote that the term has demeaning connotations. French professor John Phillips wrote that shemale is a linguistic oxymoron directed against the division of the sexes into male and female. Leslie Feinberg wrote that the words he-she and she-male describe a person’s gender in which the first part denotes the mental sex, while the second part denotes the sex determined at birth. She further adds that the hyphen between the members signals a linguistic crisis and an apparent social contradiction. The U.S.-based LGBT organization Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has proclaimed the position that the term shemale is a derogatory slur and should not be used except in verbatim quotes revealing the prejudices of others.
Some trans women use the term as a self-definition, but it is often used in a sex industry context. Transsexual author Kate Bornstein wrote that a friend who identified as a she-male described herself as “tits, teased hair, a ton of make-up, and a dick.” Sexuality researchers Mildred Brown and Chloe Rounsley have said that shemales are men often involved in pornography and prostitution who have undergone breast augmentation surgery and left with male genitalia. Melissa Hope Ditmore of the Trafficked Persons Rights Project notes that the term is an invention of the porn industry and many trans women find it repugnant. Biologist and activist Julia Serano considers the term derogatory or making a person a sensation. According to Regina Lynn, the porn market uses she-male for a very specific purpose – to sell pornography to heterosexual men without causing homophobia (or allowing them to overcome homophobia). He believes it has nothing to do with actual transgendered people