Pansexuality

The term pansexual is used as a label for a sexual orientation that means attraction to people regardless of their gender or sex. Pansexuality is sometimes considered its own category but is also sometimes considered to be a subcategory of bisexuality. More recently, the term has been used to be more inclusive of genders and sexes that are not exclusively cisgender or binary. Thus, pansexuality can include attractions to transgender people, intersex, genderqueer, nonbinary gender identities, as well as cisgender people (i.e., people whose gender identity conforms with their sex assigned at birth). Unlike the term bisexual, which connotes a binary attraction to both men and women, pansexual is considered a more inclusive term and is gaining popularity. Pansexual is also used in communities as ...

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