Starting in 2017, a group of trans advocates have filed annual proposals to include the trans pride flag. That original encoding set came from Japan and evolved to contain a lot of gender-based stereotypes as well as skin-tone uniformity, and Davis says these glaring gaps “were clearly not presenting a uniform view of human beings.”ĭespite Unicode’s recent progress, one notable group still hasn’t been granted an emoji to call their own: trans and nonbinary people.

The Trans Pride Flag emoji, designed by Chadwick Cipiti.Īll of these emoji are in service of “filling in the gaps in the original encoding set,” says Mark Davis, president and cofounder of Unicode and the chair of the standards organization’s emoji subcommittee in an interview.