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Is pansexuality/panromantic transphobic?
Hey everyone,
I am sure you have all have heard the debate there is between the term pan and the term bi. If we go by its definition.
Bisexuality: Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females, or to more than one sex or gender.
Pansexuality: Pansexuality is sexual, romantic or emotional attraction towards people regardless of their sex or gender identity. Pansexual people may refer to themselves as gender-blind, asserting that gender and sex are not determining factors in their romantic or sexual attraction to others.
As you may have seen, heard or read both terms (excluding other multi gender attractions) feel some connection to genders. So why do they say or imply that pansexuality is transphobic? If they like the person for who they are. Is it because they don’t validate the gender? Making people feel discouraged?
I hope trans people can answer and whoever has some kind of knowledge on this situation.
I answered a similar question a while back so I'll just quote what I said.
"I have a love/hate relationship with pansexual
The term is rooted in biphobia. It was coined by Freud. It was originally a psychological term, used to describe how human activities were derived from sex. It was later used as a term to mock bisexuality. It took into accoun...... 2 reply
I’m trans and pansexual. Anyone that says pansexuality is transphobic, doesn’t have an understanding of what the label means. Not factoring gender into your attraction isn’t the same thing as not validating your partners gender?? 1 reply
