galactic-hermit-crab: themeaningofbisexuality: Bisexuality is the attraction to two or more genders
galactic-hermit-crab: themeaningofbisexuality: Bisexuality is the attraction to two or more genders Defining bisexuality as attraction to “both” sexes is intersex erasure and unscientific. Also this a definition often used by those who wish to misgender trans binary people and non-binary people by coercively defining people by the sex they were assigned at birth, and therefore equating sex to genitals. Both sex and gender are social constructs, and neither genitals nor chromosomes define someone’s gender identity. If a bisexual person defines their personal attraction as being to both sexes, they are intersex erasing and misgendering trans people and so should examine their definitions and learn not to erase and misgender people. If someone who isn’t bisexual uses this definition then, on top of the things I mention above, they are also being biphobic and it isn’t their place to tell the bisexual community how to define their sexuality. Can it be more though if you’re using ‘bi’? I understand the incorrect use of the word both, because that does erase the possibility of other genders, but bi is 2. Wouldn’t any more than 2 be the according number? Or would you just say pan? Bisexuality is the attraction to 2 or more genders, pansexuality is more specific in that it makes it clear you are attracted to all genders but someone attracted to all genders can ID as bi. Bisexuality has been defined this way by the bisexual community for several decades, the dictionaries are behind the times. -- source link