What are the differences between shemale & ladyboy in Dubai

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Both term refer to transgender women. The difference rely on their history.

Shemale is a term that is used almost exclusively in reference to Pre op trans women doing sex work, either in porn or as Prostitutes. While the term was associated to western trans (American, South American, European), through times the term being used generally to describe any pre op trans women regardless their country or race (although most trans women, specially those who doesn’t work in sex industry find this term to be offensive).

Ladyboy is a term that popular in Southeast Asia and historically come from the word Kathoey, an umbrella term that used in Thailand to describe a third gender. Although the defenition of Kathoey can’t be translated as Ladyboy, either as literal or function, the word itself often rendered as Ladyboy in English. I suspect this reason due to the mispronunciation of word Kathoey as Ka-toy that sounds similar with Lady-boy or because there are too many young and underage transgender women that work as prostitutes, bar girl, or adult performer in Thailand.

In its journey, the word Ladyboy being used to describe asian transgender women in general ( Southeast and East ) and like the term Shemale, some of transgender women regardless their race find this term to be offensive.