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 ::::::::Your sentence seems wrong to me. Our article on faggot (epithet) says ""Faggot is a generally pejorative term for a homosexual or effeminate man."" Our article on nigger says ""Nigger is a pejorative term used to refer to dark-skinned people."" I don't see how, if shemale is derogatory, it could not be derogatory to shemales as well. If the term is derogatory, then it means more than just a description of what it refers to. A description would be ""someone with breasts and penis"" or ""someone with a penis who looks like a female"". If that were what ""shemale"" meant, it would not be derogatory. Thus, you can't see ""shemale is a person that has breasts and a penis"", you ought to say ""shemale is a derogatory term to refer to a person with breasts and a penis.""  "