• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I know that it is a trans symbol, but I couldn’t find out why. Is there an actual reason or was it just chosen randomly?

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      18 hours ago

      From what I can tell, bit of both. It started as a meme on Tumblr, gained popularity because it’s easily available worldwide (wherever there’s an Ikea), and became gay because Tumblr big gay. The colors nicely matching their

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      ::: made it more popular among a certain subset of the community, and now everyone agrees it’s a symbol of trans (support).