The use of the term shemale

[holzz]

Shemale is like coloured or handicapped. there are other acceptable terms to use these days.

[filghy2]

The problem with modern society is that it is more conserned by form over content. Words by itself aren't good or bad. It is the meaning behind them that matters.

Words have generally understood meanings though. 'Shemale' is literally misgendering because transsexuals think of themselves as female rather than half female half male.

If you know most members of a group find a word offensive but insist you mean no offence by using the word then you are being disingenuous.

[MrFanti]

In many other sites the use of the term shemale has been replaced by terms, that are not seen, and experienced, as being condescending, so it seems about time to replacing it in here, as well. Doing so is simply to show respect towards other people.

And Grooby has done so with their sites quite a few years ago....

[MrFanti]

Shemale is like coloured or handicapped. there are other acceptable terms to use these days.

Problem is, "we" haven't changed the name of the NAACP yet....

And, IMHO, "Black" is just as wrong as "Red" is for Native Americans....

[Fliktor]

I am thinking here purely in term of biology. If someone has both female and male sex organs then that person can be called shemale or hermafrodite and I don't see anything offensive in the term itself. And it is completly different topic how someone see him/herself.

[rodinuk]

I am thinking here purely in term of biology. If someone has both female and male sex organs then that person can be called shemale or hermafrodite and I don't see anything offensive in the term itself. And it is completly different topic how someone see him/herself.

that person is a hermaphrodite but not the other term which is a label regarded as pejorative slang and a misnomer in the context you are describing anyway. Someone’s view of themselves can be detrimentally affected by other’s description of them especially where it’s incorrect.