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This is only really tangentially related, but a while back, I struggled to think up a better term for monstergirls than, well, "monstergirls".
Something you could expect to see in a story which featured them. After all, that phrase is inherently derogatory. In a fantasy setting, not so much, but I think that factor would come into play in a more modern setting.

EMG has "extraspecies", but I can't quite recall if Centaur Worries had any terminology for the other non-centaurs. And really, monstergirls don't fit the definition of being another species all that cleanly. Call them monsters, but in many ways, they are very much human. Legally and soicially, you would treat them as such too.
You could use "hybrid", but that would be a misnomer outside of genetic or magical splicing and alteration. Even say, a purely human girl bitten and transformed into a werewolf wouldn't fit the definition of being a hybrid.

The terms "sub-human" and "demi-human" obviously wouldn't work either. Though the latter is less overt, both imply that the people being referred to there are essentially less than human. Just because of our way of thinking, we're biased because we are, after all, humans.

In the end, it was the guy currently creating that monstergirl visual novel who came up with the term "Para-human" to use as an in-universe way to denote the girls.
Honestly, I wish I'd come up with it. "Para-human" as a phrase fits all the criteria I'd originally set.