Are pansexuals the only orientation that have relationships with trans people ?

Nope

 

No. People of any orientation do (though not everyone of every orientation). It's certainly not unheard of for a cisgender monosexual to date a trans person. It's just that most people take it as explicit in a pansexual's orientation that they're open to dating trans people.

 

I guess it comes down to the individual person. Just because pansexual's can fall for any gender, doesn't mean a straight person or a gay person or even bisexual person couldn't fall for a trans gender person.

 

A pansexual wouldn't care about attraction to "women" or "men", it's just people in general--gender doesn't factor into their attraction. Since it does factor into yours, I wouldn't say you are "pansexual". But really, as I've learned from other threads, these terms can be as idiosyncratic as you like.

 

no, you can still be lesbian and be attracted to trans-women as im gay and am attracted to trans-guys

 

I thought that transgender people identify as the opposite sex... so they are still male or female and don't fall outside of the gender binary? meaning straight bi and gay people can go for trans people and still be straight bi and gay?

 

Some people use the term polysexual = multiple sexuality but in todays binary gender society a transwoman is either a woman or a man (something I dont particularly agree with)
Pansexual = liking all genders. It may not be fitting in your case
If you see transwomen as another sexuality then technically you are bisexual but thats probably misleading so I wouldn't recommend that.

I prefer to refer to myself as queer because it feels less constricted and more open for new experiences which includes transexual individuals.

In the end its your personal decision what you want to call yourself, no one can tell you your sexual orientation is wrong or not wrong and first you have to see how you view gender identities... Try not mislead too many people!

Or just make up a new term like Lesbian+ xD

All the best

 

Trans women are still women.....so a monosexual would still be lesbian or straight male if they like them.
The ones who complete bottom surgery look completely like cis women, and even doctors sometimes can't tell the difference. Even if they have a penis, it doesn't work like a cis male penis.
It would be like making up a new sexuality for being a lesbian who likes women with CAIS, or making up a new sexuality for straight women who are still attracted to cis men without penises (ones that lose them in accidents for example). They're still the gender they say they are.

And if I was transgender, I don't think I'd want a partner to identify as pansexual just for me alone (if they didn't consider themselves such previously)...it would feel like they were invalidating my gender and making some sort of exception for me.

 

Yes in todays society that is correct but some people do not believe in gender binary...It is something society has created out of convenience without realising or disregarding the fact that sexuality is complex.

 

Not unless you want to date men as well . Pansexuality tends to imply a slightly different approach to sexuality, anyway.

 

No, god dammit! This is a really cruel anti-bisexual slam too.

 

I know. Just saying, that would be the impression if you were to call yourself pansexual.

 

Trans women are women so you're still a lesbian. If you say that you're bi or pan that implies you're attracted to guys as well

 

Technically if you see transwoman and woman as two seperate sexual identities that you are interested in then you are bisexual TECHNICALLY but I DON'T recommend referring to yourself as this because people generally see bisexual as someone who likes men and women... (this is my problem with gender binary) I don't think its worth getting into a big fuss about... its ok to be lesbian and put "inc. transwoman" in brackets