Editing Transphobia (section)

===Bisexual communities and binarism===
One view is that the word ''bisexual'' is transphobic, as "bi" means "two" (thus implying a belief in the [[gender binary|binary view of gender]]). Some people, such as scholar [[Shiri Eisner]], say that some make the claim that the term "erases nonbinary genders and sexes out of existence",<ref name="Eisner1">{{cite book|last1=Eisner|first1=Shiri|title=Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CbJaZIosLwQC&pg=PT27|date=2 July 2013|publisher=Seal Press|isbn=978-1580054751|access-date=28 December 2014|quote=Yet another way in which bisexuality has been recently imagined is as inherently binary, and therefore intrinsically transphobic. [...] As the argument classically goes, since the word bisexuality has bi (literally: two) in it, it inherently refers to a two-gender structure. This means it erases nonbinary genders and sexes out of existence.|pages=27}}</ref> as many dictionaries define bisexuality as "of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to persons of either sex",<ref name="Freedict1">{{cite web|title=Bisexual – definition of bisexual by The Free Dictionary |url=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bisexual|website=thefreedictionary.com |publisher=The Free Dictionary|access-date=28 December 2014}}</ref> "sexually attracted to both men and women"<ref name="OxfordDicts">{{cite web|title=bisexual: definition of bisexual in Oxford dictionary (British & World English)|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/bisexual|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721021127/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/bisexual|archive-date=21 July 2012|website=oxforddictionaries.com|publisher=Oxford Dictionaies|access-date=28 December 2014}}</ref> and other similar definitions.<ref>{{cite web|title=Definition of Bisexual by Merriam-Webster |url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bisexual|website=merriam-webster.com|publisher=Merriam-Webster Online|access-date=28 December 2014|quote=sexually attracted to both men and women}}</ref><ref name="Google">{{cite web|title=Google Search: Bisexual definition|url=https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?complete=0&gws_rd=cr&ei=EUGgVLC5G4nsUvyfgKAL#complete=0&q=bisexual+define|website=google.co.uk|quote=sexually attracted to both men and women.}}</ref>

However, some bisexual individuals and scholars object to the notion that bisexuality means sexual attraction to only two genders, arguing that since ''bisexual'' is not simply about attraction to two sexes and encompasses gender as well, it can include attraction to more than one<ref name="biresource.net">{{cite web|title=BRC Brochure 2010 |year=2010 |publisher=Bisexual Resource Council/[[Bisexual Resource Center]] |work=biresource.net |access-date=8 July 2013 |url=http://www.biresource.net/BRC_Brochure_2010.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130731101822/http://www.biresource.net/BRC_Brochure_2010.pdf |archive-date=31 July 2013 }}</ref> or more than two genders<ref name="bisexual.org">{{cite web|title=Doesn't identifying as bisexual reinforce a false gender binary?|publisher=[[American Institute of Bisexuality]]|date=2014|access-date=27 May 2014|url=http://bisexual.org/qna/doesnt-identifying-as-bisexual-reinforce-a-false-gender-binary/}}</ref> and is occasionally defined as such.<ref name="Eisner1"/> Others, such as the [[American Institute of Bisexuality]], say that the term "is an open and inclusive term for many kinds of people with same-sex and different-sex attractions"<ref name="bisexual.org2">{{cite web|title=What is the difference between bisexual and terms like pansexual, polysexual, omnisexual, ambisexual, and fluid?|publisher=[[American Institute of Bisexuality]]|date=2014|access-date=27 May 2014|url=http://bisexual.org/qna/what-is-the-difference-between-bisexual-and-terms-like-pansexual-polysexual-omnisexual-ambisexual-and-fluid/}}</ref> and that "the scientific classification ''bisexual'' only addresses the physical, biological sex of the people involved, not the gender-presentation."<ref name="bisexual.org"/>

To deal with issues related to transphobia and the gender binary, some individuals have taken on terms such as ''[[pansexual]]'', ''omnisexual'', or ''[[polysexual]]'' in place of the term ''bisexual''. The American Institute of Bisexuality argues that these terms "describe a person with homosexual and heterosexual attractions, and therefore people with these labels are also bisexual"<ref name="bisexual.org2"/> and that the notion that bisexuality is a reinforcement of a gender binary is a concept that is founded upon "anti-science, anti-Enlightenment philosophy that has ironically found a home within many Queer Studies departments at universities across the Anglophone world".<ref name="bisexual.org"/> Eisner agrees with this view, stating that "allegations of binarism have little to do with bisexuality's actual attributes or bisexual people's behavior in real life" and that the allegations are an attempt to separate the bisexual and transgender communities politically.<ref name="Eisner1"/>