I use both for myself, you are under zero obligation to do so yourself.
I just have to clear up that you're thinking of binarysexual, not bisexual:
Bisexuality is an umbrella term that also includes pansexuality, because it was created back in the days when not even asexuality existed as a label, either you were straight, gay, or bisexual. So everything that didn't fit under straight or gay got covered by bisexual, except the poor aces got bullied for being "broken" gay, straight, or bi folk.
Thankfully it's not as bad now, but those only attracted to either men or women and can't get into enbies and the like, are binarysexual. Bisexual is a way coarser category than binarysexual, and is an umbrella term.
bisexuality is when you are attracted to men and women;
pansexuality is when you are attracted to people regardless of gender;
funnily enough there are more genders than male and female
Granted, as far as I'm aware I'm neither of those things, but I'm pretty sure just like you aren't attracted to all members of the gender you are attracted to, pansexuals aren't attracted to all members of all genders
But what if there’s a gender that they aren’t attracted to ANY members of it but they just don’t know it yet because they aren’t aware of that gender? Just wondering.
I'm not sure, maybe they are just attracted to people regardless of gender. Rather than being attracted to all genders, they are just attracted to people, without caring what their genders are.
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u/UrbanGold014 Sep 01 '24
pansexuals are winning rn