preferences or be attracted to other qualities as well. Some people suggest that being pansexual means you are attracted to trans and intersex people, but such claims suggest that trans and intersex people can’t be men and women and that to be attracted to them requires you to have a specific sexual orientation. You can be straight, gay or bisexual and still be attracted to trans people as the vast majority of trans people fall inside the binary of being a man or a woman.
Pansexual is a term that was created in an attempt to encompass attraction to more gender identities than just man or woman. While some people like to describe pansexual as more inclusive of diverse gender identities than bisexual (hence ‘pan’, which means ‘all’, as opposed to ‘bi’, which means two), the definition of bisexual has also changed. Because of the constant focus on the gender binary and lack of awareness about gender identities that fall outside the binary of men and women, bisexuality has generally been seen as an attraction to both men and women. However, here too the definition isn’t quite that simple and being bisexual is now generally taken to mean being attracted to two or more genders. Bi and pan are therefore quite interchangeable.
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Asexual (or ace) is an umbrella term for people who don’t experience sexual attraction to anyone, people who have very limited sexual attraction, or people who can only develop sexual attraction if certain attributes are in place. Being asexual includes a broad set of experiences and there are many who separate sexual attraction from romantic attraction. This means that if someone is asexual, they can still experience romantic attraction, want to be in a relationship, and even in certain circumstances be sexual with their partners. It’s important to remember that people who are ace experience it in different ways. As you can imagine, this opens up a whole new spectrum of people having certain sexual attractions and romantic attractions (such as homoromantic, heteroromantic, biromantic, etc.).
As asexual is an umbrella term, there are many other terms that fall under it, such as demisexual. Demisexual refers to people who need to have a very strong emotional connection with someone before being able to develop a sexual attraction to them.
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