dreadcaptainwatson:

Mhm, my best friend is (as well 3 or 4 of my other good friends), and I’ve identified as pan before even though I use bi as my label now.  Pansexuality means sexual attraction to all genders.  (There are more genders than the male-female binary system in our society would have us believe.)  
It can mean slightly different things to different people, including:

• A person’s gender has no influence over whether you’re attracted to them
  
• Their personality/mind/etc matters more to you than their gender
  
• You want your sexual orientation label to explicitly include nonbinary genders
  
• Or maybe “bisexual” and “polysexual” just don’t seem wide enough for you, maybe you prefer the way “pansexual” sounds and fits with who you are.
  

I hope this cleared it up a little bit…?  If not, feel free to shoot me more questions about what specifically is confusing you and I can get the bff over here to help you out too.

-Em