Trans Awareness Week: The fascinating origin story of the famous transgender symbol

The transgender Pride flag usually consists of five pink, blue and white stripes, used by trans people and the wider LGBTQ+ community to express pride and allyship.

However, the flag is often overlaid with another symbol of the transgender community, derived from traditional gender symbols for cisgender men and women.

The symbol is a pictogram that shows a circle with two arrows coming out of the top left and right sides of the circle. One of the arrows has a line through it; there’s also a cross coming out of the bottom of the circle.

It combines the symbols for cisgender men and women, as well as that for androgyny.

The symbol was designed in the 1990s by Holly Boswell, Wendy Parker, and Nancy R. Nangeroni, who said

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