The Unicode Consortium recently announced that gender-neutral couples and emojis showcasing disability will be part of the next update, which will be rolled out in October.
RELATED: YOU’LL SOON BE ABLE TO USE NONBINARY COUPLE EMOJIS ON YOUR PHONEĪdvocates have been asking for the Trans Flag to be included in both Android and Apple updates for years to no avail, despite being one of Emojipedia’s top 50 emojis requests in 2019. The emoji, which features an LGBT+ Pride flag with a crossed-out circle superimposed over it, has gone viral on Twitter after being. The emoji combination wasn’t a glitch, according to Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge, it’s how the strikethrough works in combination with any other emoji. A new emoji with a clear anti-LGBT message has sparked outrage. In February, an anti-LGBTQ+ emoji-which combines the rainbow Pride Flag and the strikethrough symbol-went viral after users discovered it and posted it on Twitter. You can copy and paste the necessary combination into WhatsApp directly from Emojipedia. If you paste this sequence – ?️⚧ – into WhatsApp on an Android, it will create the Trans Pride Flag. This is possible with any emoji on supported platforms, in the same way keycaps are combining characters. If you want to try it for yourself, you can use a ZWJ sequence of the ?️ White Flag emoji and ⚧ Male with Stroke and Male and Female Sign Unicode character. In February 2019 misinformation was spread about a so-called 'anti-lgbt emoji' which can be created using a combining character to show a black and white glyph like on top of the rainbow flag. When using unicode characters, it’s possible to put a strike-through circle next to an emoji and have it look as if it’s overlaying it. Swastika symbol, or swastika emoji, sometimes written as swastica, svastika, svastica, svasti, even sauwastika ( specifically), and in German called hakenkreuz symbol. So copy-paste swastika with caution if you mean it as a nazi symbol. This trick only works on Android devices while using the newest version of WhatsApp. In the west it's seen as a symbol of racism, symbol of hate and intolerance.
The sequence combines the white flag emoji with the transgender symbol to create the blue, pink and white transgender pride flag. Twitter descended into a furor after discovering an emoji that supposedly showed a rainbow flag with a crossed-out circle over it. Android users recently discovered it’s possible to create the Trans Pride flag emoji.