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Showing Original Post only (View all)It's time THIS flag and this symbol made their appearance on DU: [View all]
They are, respectively, the primary flag of the transgender rights movement and the main symbol of transgender identity.
Chelsea Manning(the person known to us until this morning as Bradley Manning)is now the most well-known person of transgender identity in this country. The cause of freeing Chelsea Manning is, therefore, now part of the larger struggle for transgender rights(a struggle all progressives and people of good will must take up)and the liberation of Chelsea Manning will now become a major goal in the struggle for transgender rights and the continuing struggle for human liberation.
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Here is a description of the flag's symbolism, from its creator, transwoman artist Monica Helms:
Ken Burch
Aug 2013
#2
And here is an alternate transgender flag design created in 2002 by Jennifer Pallinen
Ken Burch
Aug 2013
#3
Finally, here is an adaptation of the "yin-yang" symbol for the transgender cause:
Ken Burch
Aug 2013
#9
I'm a woman and I haven't experienced any misogyny on Du, certainly not from the Admin.
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#29
People's sexual stuff has zero interest with me..except to defend what they are/want.
BlueJazz
Aug 2013
#12
Imagine our first contact with an alien race and it turns out they have no gender.
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2013
#18
Gen-der? We do not understand that concept. We have only one gender--Neuchacho.
NuclearDem
Aug 2013
#39
I'd like to just quietly mention Chaz Bono… only because you say Manning "is now the most well-know
KittyWampus
Aug 2013
#23
Before I heard that she had asked to henceforth be referred to as Chelsea I had called
totodeinhere
Aug 2013
#30
that's lovely. I never knew there were individual flags until my bisexual daughter showed me the
liberal_at_heart
Aug 2013
#47