boricuan-moonbaker:

veryfemmeandantifascist:

nyshadidntbreakit:

veryfemmeandantifascist:

Controversial opinion: if more people actually read up on bisexual history and bothered to interact with bisexuals irl instead of making assumptions about us, I don’t believe as many people would id as pansexual

The majority of pan people I know started out IDing as bi, the implication that we were all doing so in a vacuum and didn’t understand our own identity properly is pretty rude.

I don’t have a problem with people id’ing as pan, but I do see a large number of people coming out as pan on the basis that somehow bisexuality is “uninclusive” without any regard to actual bisexual history, activism, or community. If pansexuality wasn’t so publicly defined as a more “progressive” version of bisexuality as if we do not include trans/intersex people, it’s not wrong to question if less people would call themselves pan instead of bi. There is something also to be said about the continued stigma around the term bisexual itself, as a reason why some people will not identify with the bisexual community.

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