Alternate intersex symbols

@lexicalblog recently suggested a new astronomy-inspired symbol for intersex that made me go "oooh!"

I'm personally exited for any alternative to the Mercury symbol 👍️ (Mercury is a reference to the h-slur, and was invented by biologists)

So I made some SVG/PNG symbols based on Lexi's idea! 💜 These are derived from this gender symbol from Wikimedia Commons. ......... intersex .......................... intersex fem ................... intersex masc

.... intersex enby .............. intersex transfem ............ intersex transmasc

SVGs: available here

Copyright: these are all copyright-ineligible (i.e. public domain) - but please credit Lexi for the symbols. The idea was hers, I just made them into SVGs.

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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!

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Reblogged varsex-pride

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Perisex flag ideas: request for feedback

Earlier today I came across this perisex flag design (on the left) by @clowncaraz and was inspired to play with the design a bit. I've got two versions I made (middle, right) that I'd like to share and get feedback on what people prefer! 💜

I liked the cut purple box in clowncaraz's design and got the idea of old-school balancing scales ⚖️ with Wolffian on one side and Müllerian on the other. It also got me thinking of a split arrow design and how every zygote starts out with the same (lack of) sex characteristics.

But the sun in clowncaraz's design admittedly confused me 😅 - I first read it as an Ox or as the top of the Mercury symbol. So I thought I'd iterate and play with the balancing scales/split arrow idea.

Here's my first version:

I darkened the periwinkle and use white for the centre icon to represent all the possibilities one can do with a perisex body. The periwinkle represents being perisex, and is the opposite (180-degree) colour of intersex yellow in okLCH colour space.

Second version:

This is a simplified version of the first - it loses the top middle line. It looks cleaner to me, but I think the theming isn't quite as clear.

Which version do you prefer? Do you have suggestions on how to further iterate the design? Ty! 🩵

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Thank you all for the feedback! I've got two new versions thanks to feedback from @clowncaraz and @scifimagpie

A concern is that the Venus-style arrow and Mars-style arrow are associated with gender, and for some folks it would be productive to decouple sex and gender imagery.

Right now, the proposed gender symbols for Wolffian and Mullerian double down on the Mars/Venus thing. So as an alternative, how about electronics symbols for "female" and "male" connectors:

Which leads to... Version 3!

And new ideas for symbols fol Mullerian and Wollfian:

The result is a little visually unbalanced though. So clowncaraz suggested Version 4:

If anybody know if these suggested sex symbols have already been used for a gender/etc symbol please let me know! Reverse google image search didn't give me much of use.

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Alternate intersex symbols

Müllerian and Wolffian Astronomy-Style Symbols

Perisex flag ideas: request for feedback

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