Whatever reason people have for using a certain label for their sexuality is great and should
be respected.
I did finger guns below the camera.
'Cause I'm bisexual.
That's how you know someone's bisexual.
[finger guns] [upbeat music]
Hi I'm Jackson Bird and I talk a lot about being trans.
Trans.
[slow mo] Trangender.
But I don't talk that often about being bisexual.
Some people aren't actually even sure if I'm bi. I am.
I am bisexual.
I am The Bi... sexual.
Why do we have to say "sex" so much when we're talking about sexuality?
I mean, I guess it makes sense.
This week happens to be Bi Week, Bisexual Awareness Week, so I wanted to A. remind you
all that I'm hella bi and B. chat about why I don't talk about it that much.
I think the first reason is because, when you're trans, sexuality can be a bit of
an afterthought.
I mean, for me it was actually a huge hang up of a misunderstanding in figuring out my gender.
But that's a story for another time.
But y'know once you've like unpacked the Meaning of Gender and realized just how infinite
and fluid gender is, a lot of trans people find ourselves feeling pretty ambivalent about
the gender of whoever we're attracted to.
Hashtag NotAllTransPeople.
There are absolutely trans people out there who are staunch and steady in their sexualities
and I get that and I respect it.
But it is fairly common even for trans people who are only attracted to one gender to be
a bit more open or exploratory in their tastes than their straight or solely gay cisgender
counterparts might be.
And in fact, it's pretty common for trans people's sexualities to shift a bit during
transition.
Which is another reason why I didn't talk about my sexuality online for a while.
'Cause that happened to me.
A little bit.
Kind of.
Ish.
So like a lot of other trans people, when I started to socially and physically transition,
I felt a new comfort in my own body and identity and place in society, which led me to be...
way more attracted to girls than I had been in the past.
I think part of it is that comfort in ourselves that can open up an attraction to people whose
gender expressions might have previously triggered our dysphoria.
I've also heard from trans people who maybe identified as gay, that once they're settled
in their true gender, they find they still prefer being in same gender relationships
even if that means they're now dating a different gender than they were before.
Gender and sexuality are weird!
And wonderful!
And fluid.
And complex.
But to speak just for myself for a minute.
Not for any other trans or bi person out there.
I think what happened with me might have had less to do with newfound comfort and more
to do with relinquishing the last bits of my internalized biphobia.
So I grew up in Texas in the 90s and early 2000s.
So, as a product of my environment, I wasn't just biphobic.
I was homophobic, and definitely transphobic.
The culture around me exacerbated my fears of the feelings I was having.
Especially as a teenager, I was terrified by my attraction to girls.
It wasn't that strong at the time, but it was definitely there.
And maybe it would've been stronger if I hadn't tried so hard to repress it so hard.
And y'know I was given a great reason to repress it because everyone around me, including my
AP Psychology curriculum, told me that bisexuality was fake.
A mental disorder.
Anyone who thinks they're bisexual should choose one.
Now this was great news for me at the time because it meant I could only be into guys
and this weird, fleeting sometimes attraction I was having for girls was just like a weird
fluke.
It also meant that I couldn't be a trans guy because trans guys can't be into guys.
[Sighs] Yes, they can and that is another story for another time.
But as I got to college and learned that bisexuality and pansexuality are totally real and legit
sexualities, I still wasn't sure.
Privately, I started really identifying with and feeling comfortable in the label of bisexuality,
but I didn't know if I was bisexual enough.
That's one reason why I didn't immediately say what my sexuality was when I came out
publicly as trans.
I needed to sit with it for a bit.
And once I gave myself that time to think about it, without self-judgement for the first
time ever, I realized, yeah, I'm totally bi.
Hella bi.
There's a couple more reasons I don't often talk about it though and they have to
do with biphobia from others.
Sure there's the biphobia from the general heteronormative public.
When it's easier to pretend I just like girls when I'm around a bunch of like cis
het guys that really intimidate me.
And there's a lot of biphobia in the gay and lesbian communities.
People who think like I used to be that bisexuality is fake.
But the type of biphobia that I personally encounter the most in my nice little queer
bubble is people saying that bisexuality is transphobic and that if I'm attracted to
people of all genders and non genders, as I am, that I'm actually pansexual.
Actually.
Oh, thank you for telling me.
Didn't realize.
Pansexual!
Actually.
Listen, I'm not necessarily going to correct someone if they say that I'm pansexual,
but it's not the term that resonates the most with me and, more importantly, bisexuality
is not transphobic.
Are there some bisexuals out there who are transphobic?
Undoubtedly.
People of all kinds are transphobic, including some trans people.
But there are tons of inclusive definitions of bisexuality.
Whether you define it as being attracted to two or more genders or being attracted to
the people of the same gender as yours as well as people of different genders than yours.
Now some people do prefer the term pansexual because it expresses more of a feeling of
being attracted to people regardless of gender.
Or they like the term for innumerable other reasons personal to them.
Whatever reason people have to use a certain label for their sexuality is great and should
be respected.
I like the term bisexual because it just feels right to me and because, frankly I like history
of the label and I want to join the fight for more bisexual representation in media
and in the LGBTQ+ community.
Bottom line is that sexuality is complicated.
Bisexuality is real.
Peoples sexualities can absolutely change over time, for any reason.
And we gotta respect that.
And not just silently, privately respect it ourselves.
We gotta work to make sure people's identities are respected by other people, and institutions,
and the media.
We gotta speak up.
Educate others.
Push for inclusive language and legislation.
And let's fight for characters who actually SAY that they're bisexual instead of "not
liking labels" or suddenly changing their sexuality from gay to straight and back again.
I mean, both those things are valid, but can we just have a few more characters explicitly
saying they're bi or pan?
It makes a huge difference to kids to see someone explicitly like them reflected in
media.
Heck, it makes a big difference to adults too.
I makes a huge difference in acceptance in our community – and outside of it.
And you know what, one way we can work towards that is by joining GLAAD's petition against
Warner Bros. to make Wonder Woman bisexual in the next movie.
Because she totally is bi in some of the comic book canon and how cool would it be to have
a super hero in a major movie franchise to be bisexual??
GLAAD also has a bunch of other ways that you can get involved with #BiWeek.
So check out the links below and share your own pride and stories using #BiWeek
And if you liked this video, why not subscribe, give this video a thumb's up, and share
it in the #biweek tag?
I make videos (cough) roughly every Wednesday about queer stuff, nerdy junk, and waffles.
I also have a podcast called Transmission, where I chat with other trans people about
their experiences.
So if you wanna stick around and keep up with what I'm doing, you can follow me @jackisnotabird
on all platforms and throw me a buck of support on Patreon, if you're feeling extra generous.
Alright, that is it for now.
Thank you so much for watching and… bi!
[upbeat music]
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