[Ads-l] Antedating of "She-Male"

[Shapiro, Fred]

she-male (OED, 2.a., 1842)

1826 Thomas Jefferson Withers Letter 24 Sept. In Jonathan Ned Katz Love Stories (2001) 78

I really believe, that you are charging over the pine barrens of your locality, braying, like an ass, at every she-male you can discover.

Fred Shapiro

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