Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
she-male
early 19c. U.S. colloquial, "a female, a woman," from she + male.\n\nDavy Crockett's hand would be sure to shake if his iron was pointed within a hundred miles of a shemale.
["Treasury of American Folklore"]
\nThis became obsolete, and by 1972 it had been recoined (disparagingly) for "masculine lesbian." The sense of "transsexual male" seems to date from c.1984.Wiktionary
she-male
n. (alternative form of shemale English)
Usage examples of "she-male".
He nibbled her earlobe, her well-kept hair smelled she-male as hell, then assured her, "I cannot tell a lie.
I be going after her and ain't no be-damned stinking she-male wizard gonna stop me.
She stood beside the wagon, and watched Will, Farrel, and a horde of saber-armed waddies ride off to do battle with, as the foreman had so aptly put it, a be-damned she-male wizard.