This story has been updated to specify the flags are for transgender pride.įollow Warner Todd Huston on Twitter Pre-Viral Transgender Supreme Court recently allowed the ban to continue despite a lower court’s ruling to put a halt on the ban as lawsuits against the policy wind their way through the system. President Trump’s ban on transgender members in the military remains mired in the courts, but the U.S. Adam Smith and Kim Schrier, Ohio’s Tim Ryan, and Virginia Rep. Other Democrats who placed the flag outside their office include Massachusetts Rep. We must stand with transgender people in all of our communities. I am proud to display this flag as a symbol of my support for transgender people across the country. We must stand with transgender people in all of our communities,” Sanders tweeted this week:ĭiscrimination has no place in our society. “Discrimination has no place in our society. Members of the Senate also joined the effort, one being Vermont Sen. National Center for Transgender Equality March 26, 2019
The group released a statement claiming to have sent the flag to members of Congress with a letter asking them to be displayed to protest President Trump’s plan to exclude trans individuals from serving in the military:ġ/ THREAD: To mark this year’s #TransVisibilityWeek, we’ve done something UNPRECEDENTED: /jMfr0UAZFZ The stunt apparently came at the request of the “National Center for Transgender Equality,” Fox News reported. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have eliminated their military flags in exchange for the pink, blue, and white transgender pride flag to protest the military ban on trans soldiers, Fox News reported. In a sense, then, Vecchietti’s flag marks a return - and then some - to the splendor of Baker’s original design, featuring 11 distinct colors and a visually-arresting layout.A group of Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and New York Rep. Green, blue, and violet represent nature, harmony, and spirit, while pink and turquoise represent sexuality and art/magic, respectively. In Baker’s original vision, the red, orange, and yellow stripes represent life, healing, and sunlight. Initially, the flag featured eight colors but due to production purposes and commercialization, it was whittled down to six. The first iteration of the Pride flag emerged in San Francisco in 1978 when artist and activist Gilbert Baker debuted it at the Gay Community Center. In recent years, the Pride flag has rapidly changed and evolved, first to bring attention to issues facing BIPOC people, then to ensure that the entire trans community was included in a single and more fully comprehensive symbol.īut the Pride flag has also been a fluid document from its inception. Intersex people have long been underrepresented and are rarely visually included in the Pride imagery that is ubiquitous every June. Vecchietti’s new intersex-inclusive Progress Pride flag is also a reflection of recent conversations around inclusivity underneath the broader LGBTQ+ umbrella. As Carpenter wrote in a 2013 blog post for Intersex Human Rights Australia, “We are still fighting for bodily autonomy and genital integrity, and this symbolises the right to be who and how we want to be.”
In that light, the circle that Vecchietti added to the Pride flag isn’t just a statement of inclusion, it’s a symbol of an ongoing human rights struggle.