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What does it mean to be pansexual?

What does it mean to be pansexual? As with any personal identity, the answer varies somewhat from one person to the next. But being pansexual generally means that a person experiences emotional, romantic and/or physical attraction to people of all gender identities and expressions. For some, this means they are attracted to persons regardless of gender; for others, there’s attraction to a spectrum of gender identities and expressions.

Some LGBTQ+ persons--young people in particular--are choosing pansexual to describe their sexuality because it feels more expansive than the term bisexual, which typically refers to someone who is attracted to persons of more than one gender. In fact, the prefix pan-, which comes from the Greek language, means “relating to the whole of the universe.”

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What does it mean to be pansexual?

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Gender Identity Our core sense of who we are as a man, a woman, a mixture of both, or neither.

Gender Expression How we show up in the world through choices like clothing, hair style, mannerisms or tone of voice.

Attraction How we feel toward others sexually, romantically and/or emotionally.

Biological Sex Physical attributes such as reproductive organs and genitalia, chromosomes, genes and hormone levels.

What does it mean to be pansexual?

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Gender Identity Our core sense of who we are as a man, a woman, a mixture of both, or neither.

Gender Expression How we show up in the world through choices like clothing, hair style, mannerisms or tone of voice.

Attraction How we feel toward others sexually, romantically and/or emotionally.

Biological Sex Physical attributes such as reproductive organs and genitalia, chromosomes, genes and hormone levels.

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