Hey friends: question for those with more knowledge than I. Last night I saw someone claim that our attachment to bisexuality is strange because it used to be based on a gender binary and we should stop holding onto this term, saying that we can evolve past it or some such.
I found this to be a pretty hurtful thing to read, especially from someone who I respect. I don’t know them personally but I always liked reading their thoughts.
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Bisexual is pretty fucking old, _has been a term for being intersex or GNC_ and is contemporary to "lesbian" being the umbrella gender for all GNC and female-assigned trans folks who used male and nonbinary pronouns. Every time the "bi is transphobic" comes up I just ... sigh.
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Every year we do this. Bisexuals don't have history or elders or wisdom to pass on, they don't remember things we ought to remember, we ought to do away with bisexuality. (FTR, I know a nonbinary bisexual who is 54 and has been queerly out as both since ~25. So. Y'know.)
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Yeah, that person doesn't know their history. From the 1990 Bisexual Manifesto: "Bisexuality is a whole, fluid identity. Do not assume that bisexuality is binary or duogamous in nature [. . .]. In fact, don’t assume that there are only two genders."
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In my personal experience, I started hearing "bi means two and is also transphobic" discourse in the early 2010s. I stopped referring to myself as bisexual for a while because of it.
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