A new flag design for endosex, which acts as a sort of midway design between my perisex flag design and the dyadic flag. [SVG here] Endosex is one of three common terms used to mean not intersex, and was initially coined in German by Heike Bödeker (who is intersex) in 1999. The other common terms are perisex and dyadic.
I've been thinking there's utility in having slightly-different-but-similar meanings for endosex, perisex & dyadic to allow for us to talk about how intersex-ness in nonhumans can be really complex. My survey about what these slightly-different meanings should be is still open, so if you have thoughts about whether a snail with typical sex development should be perisex and not dyadic (or something along those lines), send me your feedback here! 📋️
For comparison: I've put the dyadic flag on the left. Designed by @pride-flags-for-cishets, it uses a square as a contrast to the ring of the intersex flag. And it has blue and pink to indicate the traditional sex dyad/binary. It gets used in designs like the extersex flag.
But for some perisex trans/enby folks, a pink-and-blue flag understandably doesn't sit so well! 🙃 So I designed a perisex flag after a flag design by @clowncaraz inspired me. I'm trying in the perisex flag to illustrate how perisex folks are on the two ends of the two "typical" ways that sex development happens (Wolffian or Müllerian). The filled-in arrows represent Wolffian and Müllerian.
Both the endosex and perisex flags use a dark periwinkle that is both purplish and bluish, a colour that I've been seeing used in other flag designs to indicate not being intersex.
The white in the perisex and endosex flags is used to indicate that biology is not destiny: trans people can take their bodies and put them on a completely different path.
The dyadic flag doesn't have any confirmed colour meanings, so I don't have an obvious meaning for the black in the endosex flag.
I'm thinking I'll wait on the results of the endosex/perisex/dyadic-in-nonhumans survey before assigning a meaning to the black. Same for if the light periwinkle means anything beyond not-intersex like the dark periwinkle does. Expect a follow-up on this in late October / early Nov.
The light periwinkle in the endosex flag is the same one in @clowncaraz's design because it's just a really nice colour that I'm fond of for this purpose, and wanted a way to make use of it. 😁
Tagging for archival: @varsex-pride @radiomogai @liom-archive @beyond-mogai-pride-flags @conformant-archive