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Comparison to bisexuality and other sexual identities

According to author April Scarlette Callis, she argues in her study that although pansexuality rejects the gender binary, pansexuals are still included under the binary umbrella. She includes by saying that generalizing pansexuals under the umbrella leads to falsely categorizing them and not considering the important differences between those who identify as bisexual and those who are not. Some of these differences are very important to the pansexual community and the pansexual identity and not including them can lead to misrepresentation of the pansexual identity. In addition, stigmas will continue to have a great effect on the pansexual community. As Callis mentions, pansexuals face stigmas relating to bisexuality and this study has shown that pansexuals are hesitant in disclosing their sexuality in order to avoid prejudice and invasive questioning either because of stigmas or a lack of knowledge of others.

In addition, author Ayisigi Hale Gonel also argues on behalf of the pansexual community regarding the pansexual identity. The author mentions that pansexuals refer to having attraction towards all genders but pansexuals also include themselves as possibly any gender and/or sexes. In their journal, pansexuality is described as an anti-identity which take a stand again a "one type of love". Recently, pansexuality has been viewed to serve as a contraposition to new homonormatives (set of rules to help decide who in the queer community are the best) that form certain sexualities as non-respectable. Pansexuality also has participated in the conservative conceptualization of identities that categorize sexualities in innate categories.

According to Flanders et al., one main point which they emphasize in their study is that among the pansexual community, one noticeable component to conceptualizing their definition of the bisexual identity is sexual attraction than for bisexual individuals. In addition, through pansexual participants' personal testimonies, for some it is important to not be defined by their sexual identity. Individuals mention that their sexual identity does not define them and there is not always a necessary means to disclose to other their sexuality unless it relates to someone else in order to make them feel comfortable about themselves. Moreover, pansexual participants indicate that they will not disclose their sexuality in order to avoid prejudice and invasive questioning.