The terms shemale (or chicks with dicks) refer to transwomen (male-to-female transgender or transsexual people) who have female breasts, through hormone replacement therapy and/or through breast augmentation and usually other female secondary sex characteristics, but who have not undergone genital reassignment surgery.
Many transwomen are offended by this term; they dislike this term for one or all of the following reasons:
because of the association with the sex industry, like pornography, escorting, and sex party scenes,
because many transwomen who have not undergone genital reassignment surgery want it and/or
because their gender identity is female, not "male", nor do they feel they are only "half-female".
However, other transwomen never undergo genital reassignment surgery even if they can afford it, or come to accept their genitalia, because they consider the surgery to be unnecessary for their individual gender transition. Some transwomen have said they prefer the genitalia with which they were born.
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