Shemales or Transsexuals

[ladyboylover18]

Originally Posted by ThirdEyeGirl

I'm a non-op transsexual woman. Meaning I'm ALL woman, who happened to be born in a male body.
And the reasoning why I'm "non-op", is because I don't have a problem with my penis. The other reason is because I don't particularly like the idea of using surgery to manipulate what you were born with. I mean I'm barly considering FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery).
Now the reason why I hate to be refereed to as a 'shemale' or 'ladyboy'. Is because most people who use those terms (that I've encountered at least), think of transsexual women as just MEN who looks like women. Inferring that us ts girls think just like men do. When in fact we (transsexual women) never did. Even when we were ruled by testosterone.
Transsexual women are just that. Women! And we should always be treated as such.






Wendy is very accurate with her depiction of terms with in the transgender community.

But just to add another descriptor. Ladyboy is literally translated from the thai word kathoey. Witch in Thailand, is the way that they refer to trans women who have yet to have had SRS, or sexy change. And further more, the Thai people don't have a word for post-op transsexual women. They are now 100% women.

But just like Wendy has stated.

Good rule of thumb: let the person who are talking with self-identify and refer to them with the terminology they use.[/QUOTE]
So if you are not sure what you should call that person. Just ask them, and find out. [/QUOTE]
u have a good point