And to you, @evetype, as well as to all of our bisexual followers. Although it’s quite late in the day for us, we hope that everyone has spent this day well, whether it was by reflecting on your own identity or by connecting with others in the LGBT community (online or off). The editor and I know that it’s difficult for all of you in the rest of the year, but you’re here! You exist! You are valid! And may you see change for the better—more acceptance, for one—by the next Visibility Day.
That having been said, to answer your question, I’d like to begin by saying gender and sexuality are complicated topics among pokémon. Certainly, we scientists classify pokémon as male, female, or gender indiscernible (or unknown, if you’re a trainer—which itself is different from the human concept of being nonbinary), but the human definitions of what gender and sexuality mean don’t exactly apply to pokémon. We don’t, for example, know for certain if transgenderism is a concept to pokémon at all. I say all of this as a disclaimer, as the rest of this post will be describing pokémon in those three unfortunately rigid categories of gender, even though that is not what it means to be bisexual as a human. In other words, I apologize in advance for sounding rather dated when speaking about pokémon.
That having been said, bisexuality is actually hugely common. In fact, most species on this planet that can mate also exhibit some level of bisexuality or even homosexuality among its members. (Interesting case: The mareep line are famous for their males. Ten percent of all male mareep are attracted exclusively to other males, and somewhere around twenty-two percent of male mareep are considered to be bisexual.) Even gender-exclusive species such as jynx are largely bisexual and not, as once thought, homosexual; they simply show attraction towards not only fellow jynx but other compatible species. For example, when placed in a room with a jynx and a hitmonchan, the jynx is just as likely to select the hitmonchan to be her mate as she is the other jynx.
In truth, in a way, pokémon are far wiser than humans because to them, the subject of sexuality is not a taboo at all. I know I’ve said a moment ago that pokémon don’t see sexuality the way we humans do, but it’s very true. While all pokémon (that can breed) clearly have preferences, these preferences can sometimes be fluid, and even then, pokémon never see any point in hiding what they prefer at any given time. They simply are, and this state of fluidity is rather normal for them. All of this is only a fairly recent discovery to humans because we have the unfortunate tendency to stick to our preconceived notions of what identity means to us while dismissing any definition that deviates from these notions. And of course, it probably doesn’t help that we conflate breeding with mating, and thus, we forget that what a pokémon will do in the wild (where it’s free to choose a partner) is entirely different from what it will do in captivity (where its options are far more limited).
Hopefully, that answers your question sufficiently enough, dear reader … unless this was a request for an entry, at which point, I apologize deeply for that as well. I suppose the short of it is any pokémon would fit this description short of perhaps voltorb, staryu, magnemite, porygon, or their evolutions—which is to say you share this world with fantastically powerful beings who are, in a way, just like you, readers.
The Pokédex According to Bill 