It's a term that refers to gender diverse feminine people, from what I know usually working in bars, and it generalizes GNC men, non-binary and trans women together, but I don't personally see it as an inherently offensive term, though I'm not part of that culture myself, so it's not for me to sayI get what you mean by censoring the word, but I feel that a few folks don't have any idea what the particular word actually means (myself included). If you are censoring a word from a foreign language, it might be good to have notes explaining what that word actually means, at the least to feel the gravity that caused you to censor in the first place.
iirc it did originally come with offensive connotations (though the exact origin is unknown, and may be portuguese or dutch import), but has been somewhat reclaimed and some use it to identify themselves, though by my understanding the ones using it for themselves are (usually gay) men who crossdress, but still identify as men (think drag queens).It's a term that refers to gender diverse feminine people, from what I know usually working in bars, and it generalizes GNC men, non-binary and trans women together, but I don't personally see it as an inherently offensive term, though I'm not part of that culture myself, so it's not for me to say
Most research I've done also include trans women into the role, though it's very ambiguous (which is probably cause japan still sees them as crossdressing men, especially no-op or pre-op women) for some media examples, there's a reocurring character in that job in some Yakuza games, in which she seems to be a trans woman [although they never explicitly use the term], and in AI: the somnium files, that character is non-binary, although still AMABiirc it did originally come with offensive connotations (though the exact origin is unknown, and may be portuguese or dutch import), but has been somewhat reclaimed and some use it to identify themselves, though by my understanding the ones using it for themselves are (usually gay) men who crossdress, but still identify as men (think drag queens).