This usage of the Lobster emoji 🦞 was due to the activism of the group Lobsters Against Transphobia. Prior to the addition of the Transgender Flag emoji 🏳️‍⚧️, transgender activists began to use the Lobster emoji 🦞 in 2018 to represent transgender pride and support for a transgender flag emoji. These campaigns would gather widespread support and would eventually lead to a Unicode proposal for a transgender flag emoji submitted in 2019 that was backed by representatives from Google and Microsoft. For the next several years, activists would launch campaigns to drive support for a transgender flag emoji. As early as 2016, Google creative director Tea Uglow had submitted a proposal for a transgender flag emoji to the Unicode Consortium. As of March 2021, the Transgender Flag emoji 🏳️‍⚧️ is not yet supported on Microsoft devices and will instead appear as a box followed by the Transgender Symbol emoji ⚧️.īefore it was eventually approved in 2020, people had been campaigning for a transgender flag emoji for years. The Twitter version of the emoji resembles the flag in the form of a rectangle with rounded corners. On most major platforms, the emoji depicts the transgender flag, composed of blue, pink, and white stripes, waving in the wind. The emoji is a combination of the White Flag emoji 🏳️ and the Transgender Symbol emoji ⚧️. The Transgender Flag emoji 🏳️‍⚧️ was added to Emoji 13.0 in 2020.