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Pan refers to someone who is attracted to all genders. This does not necessarily mean that pan is "gender neutral" in terms of attraction or that one who is pan has no preferences.

Etymology
The prefix "Pan-" means "all."

Definitions

 * Feeling attraction to all genders and/or regardless of gender. - Pride-flags, 2016
 * Attraction to all genders. - Ezgender Google Docs, 2021

History
In the 1940s, the zoologist Alfred Kinsey created a scale to measure the continuum of sexual orientation from heterosexuality to homosexuality. Kinsey studied human sexuality and argued that people have the capability of being hetero- or homosexual even if this trait does not present itself in the current circumstances.[28] The Kinsey scale is used to describe a person's sexual experience or response at a given time. It ranges from 0, meaning exclusively heterosexual, to 6, meaning exclusively homosexual. People ranking anywhere from 2 to 4 are often considered bisexual; they are often not fully one extreme or the other. The sociologists Martin S. Weinberg and Colin J. Williams write that, in principle, people who rank anywhere from 1 to 5 could be considered bisexual.

The psychologist Jim McKnight writes that while the idea that bisexuality is a form of sexual orientation intermediate between homosexuality and heterosexuality is implicit in the Kinsey scale, that conception has been "severely challenged" since the publication of Homosexualities (1978), by Weinberg and the psychologist Alan P. Bell.

Controversy
It is sometimes claimed that Bi orientations are exclusive of transgender and nonbinary people, and therefore Pan is more inclusive. However, this is ahistorical; Nonbinary people have always been included in bi communities.

It should be noted, however, that because not everyone saw bisexuality as fluid or more than two in the past, there were definitions of pansexuality (and polysexuality) that were specfically stated to include transgender people and imply that bisexuality did not."Bisexuality identifies persons who are attracted to women and men, to varying degrees. Pansexuality or polysexuality represents the broader sense attraction to persons of diverse gender attributes. For example, a pansexual woman may be attracted at  times  to  some  biological  women,  to  biological men, and to some transgender women ... - Jones & Hill, 2002"

Orientations

 * Pansexual, Being sexually attracted to all genders.
 * Panromantic, Being romantically attracted to all genders.
 * Panalterous, Experiencing alterous attraction to all genders.
 * Pansensual, Experiencing sensual attraction to all genders.

Subsets

 * Pancurious
 * Pan-ish