[muzani]

"It is time for the UTC to own up to their mistakes. This whole ordeal has gone on for way too long. I am not asking for much; the solution to this problem is laughably easy. The current gender situation in Unicode is discriminatory, end of discussion. It excludes transgender people by pretending that only women can get pregnant. It excludes non-binary people by treating the third gender option as secondary to male and female, and by neglecting it for virtually all current human- form emoji. It excludes gender non-conforming people by carefully avoiding gendered sequences for characters like BEARDED PERSON."

Source: Analysis of Gender Proposals, https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17439-gender-analysis.pdf

[bentobean]

> “by pretending that only women can get pregnant.”

Only women can be impregnated. Stating otherwise does not make it so.

[kelseyfrog]

It's hilarious that you're using words to convey this argument. Good one

[_shantaram]

> it excludes gender-non-conforming people by carefully avoiding gendered sequences for characters like BEARDED PERSON.

I don't understand this part. Isn't it a good thing that those emojis lack gendered sequences? Or is it that they should have modifiers to make them appear the way that a person wants to present themselves?

[squokko]

Poe’s Law