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So, I asked on the Instagram question thing which...
By the way, how do you find the answers after your story is gone?
Do you still have the answers or the questions after your story is gone?
Because I can't find them anymore.
But I asked Instagram which, if you don't follow me already,
@rikkipoynter, I wanted to know if anybody had any requests
for bisexuality videos, and I got a lot of questions.
One of them being 'Is bisexuality transphobic?'
Or isn't being bisexual transphobic?
You know, basically any way you can spin that, that's the question.
And it got me thinking. Because part of me was like "No,"
and then part of me was like, "Wait."
Because bisexuality,
a lot of people consider it, I say some people consider bisexuality
as liking their own gender and the other one,
but then there's other people,
other bisexuals that are like "Bi is not binary."
And that's something that actually Connor Manning told me in a reply.
Because instead of me just answering the question, I took it to Twitter
and I wanted my trans friends
and also, well, non-binary is trans,
but you know, I've always said, or if I didn't say it before,
I'll see it now, for me, that includes trans women and trans men.
Right? I mean, I've got trans friends who I have
little crushes on. So, you know.
But then a lot of people were saying
even in the official coming out video that I made, people were like,
"Well, why don't you just say pansexual?"
And I was like "I don't know."
I used to use that, but I don't know.
And I was talking to Alayna Fender about it,
and she was like, "Yeah, I prefer bisexual.
"The word's just more fitting for me." So, you know what?
I took it to Twitter and I wanted
my trans friends and my non-binary friends...
Again, non-binary is trans,
but you know, just specifically,
because another concern I had was well, wait,
where does non-binary people fit into this?
So, it was a little bit of education.
And for the most part the replies from both trans or...
OK, so, for the most part replies from my trans women friends
and my trans men friends and my non-binary friends were "No."
Being bisexual or bisexuality is not
being transphobic, or is not transphobia.
So, I'm just going to read a few replies because I think that's
the best way to put it.
So, the question that I actually wrote is
"Is bisexuality considered transphobic?
"Someone asked me to make a video, blah-blah-blah.
"I mean, trans men are men and trans women are women
"so I guess it's like where does non-binary lie, I guess?
"I don't know. Now I'm confused."
You know, dah-dah-dah.
And then I was talking about how
there was a lot of different conversations about it.
So my friend Annie said "Bi can mean same gender and other genders."
And then Ezra writes "Trans, non-binary, bisexual here.
"Bisexuality is not inherently exclusionary of trans people.
"Bisexuality doesn't mean there are only two genders
"any more than being bilingual implies
"there are only two languages."
And then one person said
"Doesn't that definition of each explain?"
I was like well, yeah, but you know,
that's what I thought and here we are.
And then Beck writes, "Just going to toss in another genderqueer voice.
"Bisexuality ain't transphobic or exclusionary.
"Only certain people are." And that is a good point.
While people were saying that bisexuality is not transphobic
or being bisexual is not transphobic,
of course, you're going to find transphobic bisexual people.
In fact, I could think of a few big bisexual YouTubers already
who are transphobic,
and we're not going to name any names, but they're out there.
Another nonbinary bisexual says
"Bisexuality to me is attracted to two or more genders.
"Using 'same' and 'other' can be erasive in my opinion."
And then another nonbinary person wrote,
"I am not personally offended
"but I can see where other people would be."
Or, I'm sorry, they're pansexual and genderfluid.
I don't know a whole lot about other terms and stuff like if they mean
the same thing or you know...
And then one person said
"I am nonbinary and I have mixed feelings.
"It's definitely red-flaggy to me at first,
"though if a person demonstrates their understanding
"and inclusiveness of nonbinary identities, it's fine.
"It definitely can and is used by people inclusively,
"and I don't want to erase them.
They helped me come around on the term sense historically.
"I've heard it used by folks as a way to exclude."
And then somebody mentioned the Bisexual Manifesto of 1990
which states 'attraction to two or more genders',
so that includes nonbinary folk.
And then basically it's a bunch of the same replies
over and over and over.
So I guess that at the end of the day,
being bisexual does not automatically mean
that you are transphobic,
because it includes everyone, and there may be another word for it
and it may confuse some people, and of course, like I said earlier,
you'll probably find some transphobic bisexuals out there,
but you'll also find transphobic...
You will find people in the LGBT community
that even though they are part of the LGBT community
and they have 'LGBT advocacy' in their bio, some people,
you will find that some people will still tend to be transphobic.
But yes.
So, hopefully that answers it a little bit.
I will put the Twitter thread down in the description box
or in the pinned comments
so if you want to look through and read answers
from people who I asked so, you know, learn a little bit,
then yeah.
I'm going to do that.
So hopefully that was a good little thing of education today,
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