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The dictionary states that the term "she-male" has been around, since the early part of the 19th Century (the 1800s). she-male U.S. colloquial, "a female," from she + male. By 1972 it had come to be used (disparagingly) for "masculine lesbian." The sense of "transsexual male" seems to date from c.1984. Because the term has been around so long (over 200 years, probably) no one has had any desire to officially change it.
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Interesting question. Maybe because it just doesn't roll off the tongue as diesel dyke does.
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