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This is a community for bisexuals, their allies, friends, family, anyone curious about us or our community, or just people who want to hang out.

Bisexual means different things to different people, and I'm not going to tell you what it should mean to you. But one thing I will say is that being bisexual does NOT mean being trans-exclusionary. We love no matter what dingles, dongles, or dangles you do or do not have in your pants.

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I currently identify as bi but what is the difference

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[–] Fleur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pretty simple:

Bi: Attracted to more than one gender.

Pan: Gender is not a factor in attraction (aka nominally attracted to all people of all genders).

So as an example, you can be bi but have a preference towards men or women, that would be not be congruent with being pan.

[–] Dakkaface@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pan seems to be gender blind, i.e. attracted to people with no regard to gender or attracted to all genders.

Bi has one definition in being attracted to both men and women, both sides of a binary.

Bi also has a less common usage to mean attracted to more than one gender which may or may not include both halves of the binary or the entire spectrum.

[–] Bicyclejohn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So if I like the whole spectrum I'm pan? For fucks sake, what am I gonna do with all the bi stuff I made

[–] Dakkaface@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Keep it? I think Bi is the big umbrella which contains pan, omni and poly/multi.

[–] k110111@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as i know, bi means liking male and female gender, while pan means every gender. Don't know how correct i am tho....

[–] vgnbsxl@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Bisexuality is not restricted to male and female gender. Bi means homosexual and heterosexual attraction. So attracted to genders same as mine. And attracted to genders different from mine. It means basically attracted to at least 2 genders, but not necessarily all genders.