cowardly-bisexual:

The History of Pansexuality

“A pansexual would be sexually attracted to a transsexual” - Wikipedia’s bisexuality article back in 2003, the first reference to pansexuality on Wikipedia

In 2003, Urban Dictionary carried various definitions about how pansexuals are attracted to “transexuals, transgenders, intersexes (hermaphroditic), transvestites, androgynes, etc…”

in 2001 in the Journal of Bisexuality it was revealed that pansexual was a BDSM term meaning you’ll play with anyone despite sexual orientation and gender - did not mean “hearts not parts”. It meant you can do KINK with ANYONE. 

These are the earliest references to pansexuality as a distinct “orientation” that can be found online. 

So do we really still feel that “hearts not parts” was the original pansexual definition? 

Remember that in order for these ideas of “would fuck a transsexual” to make sense, we have to erase every single straight, gay and bisexual person for the prior 100 years who fell in love and were attracted to their trans partners. 

This includes nonbinary people, because nonbinary is not a single gender experience, and nonbinary people were out and proud before 2001, decades before even. And their partners loved them and were attracted to them.