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A she-male is a derogative term for a biological male (chromosomal XY) who partially changes their body to the opposite sex, to make pornographic materials. Shemales might identify as women or men (or somewhere in between). They tend to only partially feminize themselves out of whim, fetish, or to make money.

The term "shemale" is also sometimes offensively used to refer to transsexual women, born wrongly (in their perspective) with male genitalia and who eventually correct their bodies via sex-reassignment surgery and estrogen therapy to be as close to biologically female as is medically possible. For them, they transition because they believe they are a part of the gender binary.

A eunuch is a biological male who either cannot have sex or can't procreate; almost always due to some external cause e.g. they have been castrated or an accident has occurred. The connotations are different: one is to make money and the other is due to upbringing, beliefs, or an accident.

In some (mostly historical) societies, young males were deliberately castrated and used for unique purposes, including bodyguards, servants, slaves, actors (playing women, since females were often not permitted to act), singers.

In modern societies, there is an underground network of guys, a good number who identify as gay, who have or perform eunuch surgery. Also, there are people in places where transsexual folks don't traditionally get sex-reassignment surgery, so they become eunuchs, live as female, and live in eunuch clans. However, they typically don't make up new pronouns. Male-identified eunuchs who get the surgery as a right of passage or by accident maintain their male identity. Those who get it for sex reassignment reasons usually take on the pronouns and identity of the sex they believe they are, not make up a new one.

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