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1Some would argue that one who is sexually attracted to persons of any gender is actually the definition of pansexual, but I'm just being picky here ;)– joH1Commented Jul 2, 2018 at 8:48
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2@joH1 yes, gay and straight people say rubbish like that all the time.– Jon HannaCommented Jul 2, 2018 at 15:11
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1Incidentally, bisexual didn't originally mean "attracted to both males and females" but rather "internally hermaphrodite" (bisexual still means having both male and female organs in botany) in the 19th century theory that considered both gay and trans people as inverts. The word invert is no longer used that way because the theory was obviously a load of rubbish, albeit an historically important one in attempting to be biological rather than mythological, but bisexual remained in use because it still seemed applicable with the newer use of the terms heterosexual and homosexual.– Jon HannaCommented Nov 19, 2018 at 11:20
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1Bisexual was the reason I asked this; I was tired of people (who aren't bi) saying bi people must be transphobic because of etymology.– Nathan HincheyCommented Jul 25, 2022 at 7:23
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