Difference?

[Bionca]

"shemale" is a term created by men in the porn industry to sell to a market. SOME trans*women have adopted the term and some firmly reject it. For many of us the word is problematic due to it's ties to sex work and male fetishization, not to mention Dr Janice Raymond's Feminist anti-trans book was titled "The Transsexual Empire: the Making of the SheMale". This book was used by Congress to justify not covering trans-related treatments by Medicare/aid. This decision was then used by the insurance industry to the same end. Thus, creating a class of woman who needs to resort to sex work to afford surgeries and hormones to fix her body and ultimately likely save her life.

In short, on a site like this where sex and porn are the main draw "Shemale" is expected. In real life with real live Trans*women that would is a land mine.