Bi-

Bi refers to someone who is attracted to two or more genders. It is also sometimes defined as the attraction to genders both the same as and different to one's own. This does not necessarily refer to one only being attracted to men and women, bi is trans and nonbinary inclusive.

Bi encompasses a wide spectrum of attraction. A bi person may be attracted to any number of genders, from two to all, and may be attracted to any genders in any combination (including non-binary genders). Bi people may or may not have a preference and may or may not feel a difference between their attraction to different genders.

Etymology
The prefix "Bi-" means "two."

Definitions

 * Attraction to two or more genders. - Pride-flags, 2016
 * Being attracted to two (or possibly more) 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.

Orientations

 * Bisexual, Being sexually attracted to two (or possibly more) genders.
 * Biromantic, Being romantically attracted to two (or possibly more) genders.
 * Bialterous, Experiencing alterous attraction to two (or possibly more) genders.
 * Bisensual, Experiencing sensual attraction to two (or possibly more) genders.

Subsets

 * Biflux