Pansexuality
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Pansexuality refers to the status of being able to have sexual or romantic attraction to people of all genders. Often confused with bisexuality.
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[edit] The gender binary
The Gender Binary is the belief that all human beings fall into two seperate categories of people: male and female. This excludes not only intersex people, but agender, bigender, genderqueer, third gender people, etc.. Pansexuals are attracted to all of these genders, as well as the typical man and women (binary).
Sometimes this is inaccurately as being attracted to men, women, and transsexuals. Many transsexuals take offense at this, as many identify as being binary men or women.
[edit] Flag
The pansexual pride flag is a striped flag with pink at the top (representing females), blue at the bottom (representing males) and yellow in the middle (representing non-binary sexes and genders).
[edit] Differences with bisexuality
While bisexuality literally means 'attracted to two genders', this is often took to mean 'attracted to men and women' thus reinforcing the gender binary. So, people use the term 'pansexuality' to describe their sexuality as it is more inclusive, more accurate and doesn't reinforce the gender binary. Bisexuality can also mean that they're attracted to say non-binary people so doesn't inherently reinforce the gender binary, it just is perceived to do so. Also some pansexuals use bisexuality as a self-identifier as the bisexuality is more widely known.
[edit] See also
[edit] External sources
http://www.wikiqueer.org/w/Pansexuality
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For those of you in the mood, RationalWiki has a fun article about Pansexuality. |