#gender symbols

[intervex]

Müllerian and Wolffian Astronomy-Style Symbols

Left: Müllerian - a perisex person whose innate sex development is in line with societal expectations of "biological female". The symbol is a reference to electronics symbology for a female socket. Right: Wolffian - a perisex person whose innate sex development is in line with societal expectations of "biological male". The symbol is a reference to the same electronics symbology, but for a male plug.

Symbols for perisex trans and nonbinary folks: 🏳️‍⚧️

And symbols for cisgender perisex folks:

It's a happy accident that the cisgender perisex female symbol looks like a stick figure in a dress lol 😂

SVG files available on Wikimedia Commons 💜 Feel free to edit and play with them as desired! 💜

These symbols came out of this thread where I workshopped ideas for a perisex flag. Thanks to everybody who participated, especially @clowncaraz for valuable feedback!

EDIT 2024-10-07 whoops mixed up Wolffian and Mullerian at the top of the original version of the post. 🙃 Thank you to Apollo for bringing that to my attention!

[themaveriqueagenda]

here are all the symbols that have been proposed for maveriques at some point:

the comet symbol was proposed as planet symbols (at the time of its proposal) were associated with binary gender, but it still keeps the pattern of celestial objects. it never really picked up as it was also already being used as a general nonbinary symbol. now it has pretty much fallen out of use entirely. the problem with the comet symbol is that when the unicode character is inserted somewhere, it turns into an emoji and looks nothing like the picture.

the earth symbol was briefly considered for maveriques because it's a planet symbol, but it was quickly discarded after some sources stated its use as an intersex symbol. i don't know if nowadays it's actually used as an intersex symbol. i've never seen it and have seen other symbols for intersexness instead. the earth symbol has the same problem as the comet symbol.

the sun symbol was proposed due to the colours of the maverique flag, as well as maveriques' "burning inner conviction" about their gender. it follows the pattern of using celestial objects while not using a planet. the symbol isn't used much for maveriques though, as in many cultures the sun is associated with masculinity. especially after solarian was coined, the sun became even more associated with masculinity in nonbinary spaces. nowadays, this sun symbol is sometimes used as a disabled symbol.

the pluto symbol was suggested because it follows a pre-established pattern of gender symbols (celestial objects closest to the sun) and it doesn't look like the venus and mars symbols, setting it apart from binary gender symbols. this symbol never really picked up.

this symbol was designed on a tumblr blog that no longer exists. the meaning of the symbol is explained like this: "the line in the center of the circle represents the binary and the filled in circle represents maveriques not being any part of it. the lines going sideways and extending in both directions is to show that no one is the same yet the people who identify as maverique have this identity in common." while the meaning is explained, it's still unclear. despite that, this seems to be the most commonly used maverique symbol. because this is not a symbol that already existed, there's no unicode character.

this symbol was created by me a few months ago. the circle is a common component of gender symbols nowadays. the two small circles on the left and right symbolise the gender binary. the bigger circle in the middle symbolises maveriques, not "touching" the gender binary. there's no unicode character for this, because it's not a pre-existing symbol.

[posting-stuffies]

[your-bigender-big-brother]

I decided to create my own transmaverine symbol! It's square like my abinary symbol with three extending "arms". You are the dot in the center sitting separate from those extending parts - separate from binarity and neutrality/nullity. It doesn't need to be an exact translation, just a way to interpret the symbol.

The fun part is that a gender symbol can be added onto one of the "arms" to indicate a transmaverine person with a specific non-maverine gender.

I think I may redo my abinary symbol sometime. I have a better idea for it that I'd like to try, maybe another day. - 💙💚

[squidfreak]

A combo of the bxy and gxrl symbols I found here!

[shk0lstun-flagz]

Transfeminine

Transmasculine

Symbols made for and used on my version of the Trans Flags (Link)

[solarsleep]

transadromos 🐟

a gender modality related to transitioning in one direction and then another.

root word is “dromos” meaning “to run,” specifically from “anadromous” and adjacent terms which refer to patterns of fish migration. anadromous species include salmon and some species of sturgeon. these fish are born in freshwater rivers, swim down to the ocean where they mature, and then return to their freshwater home to lay eggs.

someone who identifies as transadromos may feel that they are transitioning “back” to a gender state that they previously left, or venturing to a new one.

ID: a 5 striped flag, with red as the top stripe, then white, light blue, blue-green, and dark blue-green. the symbol on the flag is an arrow that circles back on itself. the second image is the same thing minus the symbol.

[lust-for-ultraviolence]

Okay, so I know this is the Demigirl/demiwoman symbol:

But I feel you all really missed a golden opportunity to use the Ceres planet symbol:

[djrobokat]

These are the Disk-Beings, who were playable characters in the first DDR game and a few others (Max 2 US and Extreme and Party Collection JP). They were initially just the "blue male" and "red female" pair, but I thought in today's day and age, for inclusion's sake, other gender identities should be represented so I'm showing you my own Disk-Beings with the other LGBT gender identities for inclusion's sake

[liom-archive]

[ID: A simple symbol of a comet, made of the outline of a circle with three lines coming off of the top right. /End ID.]

okay so yaknow how the female sign (♀) is the astronomical symbol for venus and the male sign (♂) is the astronomical symbol for mars

i think we should make the astronomical sign for comets be the nonbinary sign look how cool it is

here it is in type ☄

[i-love-my-trans-body]

hey what's that symbol in the intraabin flag based off? i just can't find a proposal of it as an abinary symbol

Incredibly late answer, sorry! The intraabin symbol is based off the abinary symbol proposed by waxingoccult, who is deactivated. I don't remember exactly which archive blog I found it from at the time, but here's a link to one of them.

I do still have the intraabin and the general abinary symbols I made, though!

[exilley]

I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits

[your-bigender-big-brother]

Newly Coined Centrigenders

These are some centrigenders I came up with that won't have any flags made for them, but will have symbols made at some point. These can be posted to any gender wiki, as they already exist as part of a larger system of terms that wasn't coined by me. Just be sure to credit me!

Mavrinix: Between maverique and androgyne.

Mavrox: Between maverique and androx.

Mavrynx: Between maverique and gynx.

Neutrautonome: Between neutral and maverique.

Mavautre: Between maverique and outherine.

Neuxomme: Between neutral and neutromme.

Neuxemme: Between neutral and neutremme.

Neudrox: Between neutral and androx.

Neugynx: Between neutral and gynx.

Below are my ideas for symbols, doodled so I don't forget them. I'll refine them and remake them in Photoshop in the next few days!

A little bonus under the cut: Symbols for centrigender terms that already exist. Just for fun.

[mintypsii]

guys i love them i promise i just have the urge to put them through the grinder sometimes

umm on the bright side here's the alternate good ending version lol!!!!!

[mars-ipan]

y’know i was talking about genderfluidity and trying to find a way to make my body as satisfying as possible for me with my mom and i mentioned not wanting top surgery but instead wanting to get tattoos of the scars and she worried about it coming off as offensive to other trans folks or people who’ve had mastectomies. SO i figured i’d ask the people of these communities myself!

*a realistic tattoo would be designed to look as accurate to actual scars as possible, whereas a stylized tattoo would be more cartoony- think the “eyelash/starburst” scars you see in a lot of transmasc art

reblogging for sample size would help me out a ton with gauging community opinions and such but obvi there’s no pressure :] just looking to know how ppl feel! thanks in advance folks

[ch4liz4rd-jpeg]

i wanna speak to the void abt gwens universe's colour symbolism and how it links to trans identity so here it is, feel free to read

the colours used in gwens universe - primarily in interactions with her dad are pinkish and bluish tones. the animators used pink as a way to show honesty, candidness and openness expressed, whilst the blue served to show isolation and dishonesty. ill discuss why i think so below

in the scene where gwen returns home after quitting the band, gwen is coloured in blue tones.

shes hiding her identity as spiderwoman from her dad and isolating herself in her room.

her dad tries to open up and talk to her about the case, hence the warm/orangey tones. but gwen remains blue, shutting him out. but when they hug, gwen is more purplish, showing a hint of her opening up.

the other scene i think is especially significant with her colour symbolism is the confrontation after the guggenheim sequence.

when gwen comes out as spiderwoman, the colours start to shift.

gwen is now candid, shes come out to her dad and is trying to make him listen and understand her. but just like gwens blues became pinks, george's pinks shift to blue.

the last image in this set is actually so chilling, the fear in his eyes hurt me deeply 💀 anyway

george hides behind his cop persona, avoiding and isolating from gwens confession to him, which is supported by the colour used to portray him.

all of this builds to what i think theyre trying to say about gwen being transgender. the typical gender to colour association is pink girl and blue boy. the choice of colour is deliberate here as much as it usually is with the spiderverse team. why use these two colours in this specific way? a lot of people who dont think gwen is a trans girl will say "well those two colours dont have to represent trans identity" they dont, but the details say that the spiderverse team (once again) is intentionally using them to talk about trans identity and coming out.

i think that by putting the "protect trans kids" poster in gwens room, and the trans flag patch on officer stacy's jacket show that theyre not just randomly picking the colours, but that they made the conscious choice for the boy associated colour - blue - to show hiding and isolation. whilst pink is about honesty and openness whilst being the girl associated colour. i think that the use of these colours in this way is saying that gwen is a trans woman.

and if ur still not convinced well

i havent even talked about the DIALOGUE in this movie and how trans it is. her arc (and miles' arc) across the two movies is such a queer coded story. "can i tell my dad, will he approve of me? will he still love me the same?" like it couldnt be more obvious. someone also mentioned somewhere that the side shave is also significant? like when she has the long hair facing toward the viewers its the same as the pink being used to show honesty and linked to femininity, and the short side almost like a masc haircut and being of the opposite meaning when its facing the audience. idk abt that one but its an interesting thought! that as well as her like having the same shoe size as hobie even tho that man is so fucking tall - yk this cuz her chucks are stated to be his.

anyways if u got that far, thanks???

and if u still deny that gwen is trans then idk what to say, u prob hate trans ppl

gwen is trans, they dont need to explicitly say it inorder for it to be true, just bc they didnt say gwen is trans, or miles is somehow queer, or hobie is gender non conformist, doesnt mean theyre cishet.