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Interesting article on the KQED website about nonbinary gender people. It isn't simple anymore.
Boy? Girl? Both? Neither? A New Generation Overthrows Gender
One point I see about this is sexual orientation. If you don't identify as a gender, then how do you define your sexual orientation? It seems that in the next 50 years binary gender with all its baggage will have disappeared. A good idea, really. But more than language will have to change. Our way of thinking about gender and sexuality is going to be going through an upheaval the likes of which has never been seen before.
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Sexuality
A large part of my working life is given over to travelling around the country delivering trans awareness sessions. I am away for two days in Yorkshire doing that from tomorrow, in fact. Part of my 'mantra' is that there is only one connection between gender identity and sexuality, and that is as Karen says: what you call someone depends on their gender ID. A person who fancies men exclusively is gay if they have a male gender ID, straight if that identity is female, regardless of what body they happen to be wearing.
When it comes to genderfluid people, it gets more complicated. Other non-binary people stir the mix further. I have heard the word 'omnisexual', for example, to cover someone who just fancies human beings as individuals. Other specific terms I have come across are 'male attracted' and 'female attracted.. The thing all of those terms have in common is that they do not depend on the gender identity of the person described.
Pansexual
Is the term I have encountered instead of omnisexual.
I thought that was someone
turned on by cooking utensils! Gives new meaning to doing it on the kitchen table.
Angharad
Pansexuality
http://rainlgbt.smackjeeves.com/comics/1914744/and-emily-rev...
Well pan means 'all'
So that's why it is the correct term.
Culinary
...delights take on a whole raft of new spice!