she-male

she-male
she-male early 19c. U.S. colloquial, "a female," from SHE (Cf. she) + MALE (Cf. male).
Davy Crockett's hand would be sure to shake if his iron was pointed within a hundred miles of a shemale. ["Treasury of American Folklore"]
By 1972 it had come to be used (disparagingly) for "masculine lesbian." The sense of "transsexual male" seems to date from c.1984.

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