I’m a bisexual woman, and both I and my bi friends include trans and non-binary people in our attraction range. What are the difference between the terms?
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i call myself bisexual because i am not attracted to transgender people. someone who is pan sexual would not exclude transgender or non-binary people.
i only like cis men and women. i’m bisexual.
Basically, bisexual can mean a few different things (own gender + one other gender; two or more genders; only the binary genders; all genders, etc.) People will argue all day about which one of those bisexual “really” means or which it originally meant, but the real answer is that bisexual people aren’t a monolith, they all choose their term for varying reasons and as a result the term becomes slightly vague.
But pansexual, being a pretty new label, still most commonly only means one thing: attraction to all genders. So if you’re attracted to all genders, which one you use typically just comes down to whether you want that level of specificity or not. Or which flag you like. Or whether you really want to confuse grandma into thinking you’re attracted to cookware today.
In some circles people on both sides will get into a fucking tizzy about whether the other label is transphobic or something, but that’s mostly a bunch of garbage and we have a lot in common!
Bisexual comes from the word two. So it means you are sexually attracted to two different kind of people. It could be cis men and women, Cis men and trans women, or any other two combinations of sexual identity.
Pan sexual means that you are attracted to pans. Cooking, oil, or otherwise. But not both; that would make you bipansexual.
Side note: Pam sexual is if you grew up watching Baywatch.
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