Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A transgender person who was born male and has developed female secondary sex characteristics, such as enlarged breasts, from hormone therapy but has not undergone sex-change surgery.
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- noun Alternative form of
shemale .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The next stage of their attack – and attack is the time-honoured best form of defence, after all – is generally to repeat a variation of the hate speech of Janice Raymond as iterated in her transphobic screed The Transsexual Empire: the making of the she-male:
Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What 2009
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The next stage of their attack – and attack is the time-honoured best form of defence, after all – is generally to repeat a variation of the hate speech of Janice Raymond as iterated in her transphobic screed The Transsexual Empire: the making of the she-male:
Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What 2009
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His porn stash might include fetishization of "poor hot trash," incest, mondo-homosexuality, Victorian-era British S/M, male submission, pegging, female dominants, and the ever popular "she-male action."
Susie Bright: The Real Dope on Osama Bin Laden's Porn Stash Susie Bright 2011
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From The Transsexual Empire: the making of the she-male (1979) by Janice Raymond.
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The result was the show we know today with she-male prostitutes and family trysts.
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Of course, he's better known to the fans of Passions for his landmark work as Vincent Clarkson, the psychotic, incestuous, sperm-stealing, she-male tabloid reporter who made life in Harmony a living hell!
Hulu Picks Up Season 2 of Web Series Workshop, Starring Passions Vet Phillip Jeanmarie 2011
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Over dessert I ask her, my girlfriend of two years, if she would still love me if I were to all of a sudden rip off an elaborate costume and reveal that I was actually a bald Latino she-male with a fully functioning cock.
Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011
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Over dessert I ask her, my girlfriend of two years, if she would still love me if I were to all of a sudden rip off an elaborate costume and reveal that I was actually a bald Latino she-male with a fully functioning cock.
Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011
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Are you referring to a she-male with female face and lips and a male butt and colon sucking on themself?
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I plain don't buy that the creators of Glee are in the dark about that word, considering that they've already caused controversy with the word "she-male" and heard an earful about that and then decided to mingle brands with a movie/play known mainly for transvestitism.
Alex Blaze: Glee Neuters Rocky: "Tranny" Is OK but "Transsexual" Isn't? Alex Blaze 2010
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