I’m new and I am just trying to get the terminology down. If one states they are a shemale, is that more likely to be a post-op classification, and TV is a pre-op? (Or is that way to simple?)

Just curious!

Thanks!

She-male usually refers to pre-op, or non-op. Those terms mean a T-lady has been totally made into a woman with female hormones, facial and chest hair removal, facial feminization surgery to have a woman's face, oftentimes women's breast implants, etc., but she still retains her male genetalia.
Many She-males don't care for the word "She-male" and prefer the term T-lady or transexual woman.
If they are pre-op they haven't yet been castarated and had their male genetalia removed and been given a vagina.
If they are post-op they have had sexual ressignment surgery and recieved their vagina.
Non-op means they are completely feminized, completely a woman except they are keeping their male genetalia.
All of those types of transexual women look, live, act, and dress as women, and are considered women.
Tv's, transvestites are just males dressed as women, they have not been made into women by female hormones the estrogen, and facial feminization surgery and women's breast implants, etc. like She-Males and transexual women have been.
You never refer to a Shemale lady or a transexual lady as a Tv or a transevestite, because transvestites are men, and shemales and transexual women have been transformed into being women, with a woman's face, body, etc...
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I am completely feminized, and I look, act, dress, and live full time as a beautiful, feminine lady, but I am pre-op myself. My daughters refer to me as mom these days, not dad. Everyone now refers to me as a woman and I have taken a woman's name. I might stay non-op, my man and I haven't decided that yet, whether I am to be castarated and given a beautiful vagina, or whether I am going to stay a non-op transexual lady with a ladystick. My man would love me to have a beautiful vagina, but he also loves my feminized by estrogen ladystick.
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Most of the T-ladies on this website are pre-op or non-op.
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By the way, most T-ladies, be they pre-op, non-op, or post-op, prefer to be called women or ladies.
Because that is what we are.
And that is what our handsome men refer to us as; beautiful, feminine women or ladies.
We are just transexual women as opposed to women who were born female. They are genetic women.
But we are ladies; we look, act, dress and live as women, and we can not only pass as women but are very beautiful and feminine women, and we have women's names for ourselves, and the public and the people we know refers to us as women.
If you date a T-lady, be she pre-op, non-op, or post-op, refer to her as a woman or a lady.
If a transexual lady is post-op, she can even have her legal status changed to female, marry a man, and adopt children, if she and her husband decide to do that.
I know a number of post-op transexual women who are wives and mothers.
When I was a man, before I transitioned to being a transexual lady, I was married to a genetic woman and have four daughters, and the man I am with now was married to a genetic woman and has two children with her before they divorced, so my man and I do not plan on adopting children, we already have children.
My handsome, masculine man and I have discussed whether I am to be castarated or not and given a beautiful vagina, or keep my ladystick. We haven't decided that yet.
Either way, I am a beautiful, loving, very feminine transexual lady with a woman's face, woman's body, and am on woman's hormones.

I hope that explains it.