What is pansexual? Layla Moran

How is it different to being bi sexual?
Not sure why politicians or anyone think we will be interested in their sex lives.Instead of letting it all hang out, I wish they would tuck it all back in again.?

Surely it’s the same as bi sexual ?

She's a Lib Dem say no more lol.

Explains much

I’m losing the gender plot.

It is different because a pan sexual person is attracted to people whether they are male, female, transgender, self identifying or queer!

I looked it up!!;

it doesnt mean shes attracted to saucepans then??

In my mind bi-sexual is being attracted to the person regardless of the gender. How is that different?

Well, I was beginning to wonder whether it meant anything as well as people!
Like the woman who married a rock.

I just don’t understand, does she mean sexually attracted?

Is it a genuine word then? I thought she had made it up, a bit like being 'self-partnered'.
The word 'pan' means universal so it should mean being attracted to everybody and anybody.

Totally gobsmacked by it all

A journalist was threatening to "out" her with this information, that's why she has gone public. Pathetic that she should have needed to in the 21st century. It is no ones business but her own.

Really, why would anyone care?

Petunia’s comment had me falling off my chair laughing.

I read a simple (?) explanation that goes like this: bi-sexual means being attracted to more than one gender, while pansexuals are attracted to all genders.

For example, if someone asked you what your favourite colour is, you might say red (heterosexual), someone else might say "I like more than one colour" (bi-sexual), whereas yet another person might say "I like all colours" (pansexual). With me so far? No, not sure I am either

So is the LGBT community now going to be LGBTP?

Missadventure no one should care, but some journalist obviously thought that some members of the public would be prurient enough to be interested

I used to love the Saucepan Man in the Magic Faraway Tree books petunia

And the tree itself

Pan means every or all, so logically pan + sexual ought to mean that they are turned on by anyone and everyone they meet. There are other, uglier, names for that condition. I imagine she would feel insulted to be so described.

I must have been pansexual

I had a huge attraction to Troy Tempest when I was about 6

My horrid sister told me he was a puppet

Never forgotten the shock

Another one out to destroy the Lib Dem’s.
They are becoming a laughing stock.

Callistamon
and the tree itself Your worrying me now. ?

Petunia
Thank you for the funniest post on GN for a long time ??????

I like "Pansexual" it puts the emphasis on the person not the gender. It doesn't say "I fancy men" and/or "I fancy women" it says "I want to know you as a person, then I might fancy you regardless of your sex"
I'd like to be a Pansexual, though highly unlikely I'd ever fancy anyone but a man.