Talk:Shemale/Archived references

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"shemale: A term, usually derogatory, used most often in the porn industry for a pre-op transsexual who has already developed breasts but still has an intact penis."
 * mit.edu
 * etransgender
 * U.S. v. Pryba (April 9, 1990) 900 F.2d 748, pages 750-751 (4th Cir. (Virginia)):"she-males" - persons who have female bodies, including fully developed breasts. They are women in all respects save one: they have male genitalia.
 * http://www.gaydemon.com/dicktionary/shemale/
 * http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_05.30.02/arts/missshemale.php
 * http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003502723,00.html
 * http://www.walnet.org/csis/news/toronto_2003/torsun-030827.html
 * http://torontosun.com/News/OtherNews/2007/05/05/4155792-sun.html
 * http://music.msn.com/album/?album=41558251
 * http://www.teenaids.org/Educators/Glossary/tabid/81/Default.aspx

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 * The word "Shemale" is not always used in a derogatory manner. It does not refer only to "pre-op transsexuals." This would imply that all trassexuals are bound for genital conversion surgery. There are in fact today, many non-op transsexuals, who are happy to live in between, i.e. having feamle breasts and other characteristics, but maintaining a fucntioning penis. For such people, the word "Shemale," though coined by the sex industry, has become a very appropriate name. Dr. Harry Benjamin, who first coined the word "transsexual," came up with a scale or spectrum of transgendered expression, today refered to as the "Benjamin Scale." On this scale, he included the Type 4 Transsexual, a non-op transsexual: one who lives in the opposite birth gender, and takes on physical characteristics of that gender, but maintains their birth genitals. This has become more and more prevalent as more and more transgendered individuals feel safe to live out. There had been much pressure from TS peer groups as well as from the psychotherapy community to go all the way. This is changing today.


 * "Shemale" is also a term used in online computer games to refer to male players playing as female characters, or to a female transvestite who looks like a man but is known to be a woman.