Texas Rep says she's a pansexual. What the heck is that?

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
8/15/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

Pansexuals are people who say they do not recognize gender binaries.

Texas State representative, Mary Gonzales (D) came out during her campaign as an openly practicing lesbian. Despite this admission, she was elected, based as her supporters said, on her ability to get the job done. Now, she has upped the ante, repudiating the lesbian label and identifying herself as a pansexual.

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AUSTIN, TX (Catholic Online) - A pansexual is a person who feels equally attracted to both men and women, including men and women who identify themselves as gay or transgendered.

While the vast majority of people are attracted to the opposite sex, and homosexuals claim same-sex attraction, pansexuals claim they are attracted to both genders and all "gender identities". For some using this label, they claim that they not only have a right to be so attracted but that it should be treated as a new civil right.

According to researchers, pansexuals don't recognize "gender binaries."

Articles in The Blaze and The Huffington Post said, "Though many might describe Gonzalez's orientation as bisexual, pansexuals don't believe in a "gender binary," and hence can be attracted to all gender identities."

Gonzalez said in an interview with The Voice, that she doesn't believe in a gender binary because "gender identity isn't the defining part of my attraction," and that she never fully embraced the term "lesbian."

Although she "came out" as bisexual at age 21 (meaning she self identified as wanting to engage in sexual activity with both men and women), Gonzalez said she has also dated transgender and "gender-queer" people, in addition to women.

Gonzalez. continued: "As I started to recognize the gender spectrum and dated along the gender spectrum, I was searching for words that connected to that reality, for words that embraced the spectrum. At the time I didn't feel as if the term bisexual was encompassing of a gender spectrum that I was dating and attracted to."

While members of the LGBT community are praising this latest development, most of the rest of the nation is simply trying to come to terms with a new form of sexual identification of which many were previously unaware. Many are also asking, what's next for a culture spiraling out of control?

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Keywords: Pansexual, Mary Gonzales, gay, lesbian, bisexual, politics, El Paso

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1 - 8 of 8 Comments

Vince Stein
2 months ago
It's amazing to see the social conservatives land on the losing side of the culture wars after all the years of their strong "moral majority" movement and the anti-gay campaign of bush jr. Even the majority of American catholics support marriage equality now! The US is and has always been an inherently secular nation, not a christian theocracy.
John
9 months ago
What a crazy and stupid definition!!!It seems to me that she has NO idea of sex and responsibility. What's next, sex with siblings, animalsa etc.ect.??
Matt Smith
9 months ago
I met Mary soon after her election. I was extremely impressed with the issues she cares about - you know, her priorities as a legislator? She complained that it was hard to get people focused on her campaign issues because they cared so much about her sexuality. That says more about the rest of the world than it does about her.
DLL
9 months ago
Sex is the god of America. FYI all atheists,a god is what ever anyone chooses to worship and adore. A Pansexual worships sexual intercourse in all of its forms and themselves are proud sexual performers. They are circus sexuals. Yes we do need to know this. Especially when they are politically inclined. The intellectual one will change the meaning of the word sex to include themselves in the on line Mirriam Webster dictionary,while the rest of us are debating the nature of a person who considers themselves a pansexual.
Dave Lyons
9 months ago
The next nutcase to 'come out' will probably want to be called a 'quad-sexual' - men, women, animals and rubber products....

Please join me in praying for God's mercy on this world! We're going from bad to worse.
terry pepper
9 months ago
what!!! i ain't never
DarthJ
9 months ago
C'mon Texans! Y'all can't stand for this! She's a democrat? Must be all those Yankees that voted her in.
nancy
9 months ago
do we really need to know all this???

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