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Gender-Critical Iconography

Table of contents

  1. Suffragette Flag 💜🤍💚 (October 2018)
  2. Red Square 🟥 (June 2020)
  3. Dinosaurs 🦕/🦖 (September 2021)
  4. 🏁
  5. 🦎

Suffragette Flag 💜🤍💚 (October 2018)

This series of colors, often represented as hearts (💜🤍💚) squares (🟪⬜🟩) and circles (🟣⚪🟢) — as well as the same in reverse order — originated around October of 2018.

This tweet shows the comparison to the earlier suffragette movement colors:

Funnily enough, this is very similar to the genderqueer flag’s colors:

Note that some people do use these colors to represent the genderqueer flag, not the suffragette flag.

Red Square 🟥 (June 2020)

This square can be found in usernames and bios on Twitter and it is a mark of the Gender-Critical movement, started by this graphic created by Jebrux:

After that, a campaign started to add the red square to represent this movement.

Dinosaurs 🦕/🦖 (September 2021)

In response to a comment about trans rights where Shadow Justice Secretary David Lammy told a Labour Party conference fringe event “dinosaurs exist in our own party” who want to “hoard rights”, the dinosaur emoji, and dinosaur costumes, was claimed by gender critical people:

🏁

refers to being “done/finished” with “gender ideology”; https://www.reddit.com/r/detrans/wiki/glossary/

🦎

refers to detransitioners; see https://www.reddit.com/r/detrans/wiki/glossary/