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[–]clitoriana 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think pansexual is a useless, meaningless identity that shouldn't exist. It's the same thing as bisexuality, but quirky and unique because they claim to like all genders or are attracted to personality before anything else. Pansexuals are just bisexuals who think they're special. And bisexuals are just people who can be attracted to both sexes - gender identities are irrelevant because attraction is based on sex.

[–]PeakingPeachEater[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree, before I was on the fence and 'liked' the idea of using 'pansexual' to distinguish between regular bisexuals and trans inclusive ones.

I propose we use these terms instead:

  • trans inclusive bisexuals (TIBs) - for those who like males, females, and trans or whatever other genders.

  • trans exclusive bisexuals (TEBs) - for bisexuals who exclusively like transexuals.

This is to follow the pattern of already established terms such as female exclusive bisexuals (FEB) and male exclusive bisexuals(MEB).

I also mentioned earlier in a different comment that to me, there are only 3 sexualities, which are heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual. I wish we could do away with terms such as pansexual because the term is useless and redundant.