Our Flags
The original intersex flag, designed by Natalie Phox. Meaning: “It consists of five horizontal stripes colored (from top to bottom) lavender, white, a double-width stripe with a gradient from blue to pink, white and lavender. The gradient represents the ranges of sexes between male and female, and the lavender represents a combination of male and female traits.” It was created in 2010 and first posted as a bigender flag, then later clarified to be an intersex flag.
The Discourse™: Not all intersex people like this flag because they don’t like being seen as a combination of male and female and it is not known for sure whether the creator is intersex (but are assumed not to be). Meanwhile there are others who prefer it over the OII flag for personal preference reasons.
The Discourse™: Not all intersex people like this flag because they don’t like being seen as a combination of male and female and it is not known for sure whether the creator is intersex (but are assumed not to be). Meanwhile there are others who prefer it over the OII flag for personal preference reasons.
A pride flag created in 2013 by Morgan Carpenter of intersex advocacy group OII, which has become the most commonly used and recognized flag for the intersex community. Meaning: “It utilizes yellow and purple which are the ‘hermaphrodite’ colors. The purple central circle is unbroken and unornamented, symbolising wholeness and completeness, our potentialities.”
The Discourse™: Not all intersex people like this flag because the usage of the slur hermaphrodite in the original meaning description, not all reclaim the slur and a lot are triggered by it. Others reclaim it or excuse the usage since the description was revised.
IF YOU INCLUDE THE INTERSEX FLAG IN ANYTHING, YOU SHOULD TRY TO INCLUDE BOTH OF THESE FLAGS, BUT PRIORITY SHOULD GO TO THE OII FLAG.
The Discourse™: Not all intersex people like this flag because the usage of the slur hermaphrodite in the original meaning description, not all reclaim the slur and a lot are triggered by it. Others reclaim it or excuse the usage since the description was revised.
IF YOU INCLUDE THE INTERSEX FLAG IN ANYTHING, YOU SHOULD TRY TO INCLUDE BOTH OF THESE FLAGS, BUT PRIORITY SHOULD GO TO THE OII FLAG.
Bonus Flags:
Intersex flag by anonymous and Mod Hermy at pride-color-schemes on tumblr. Colors were taken from the two intersex flags and the symbol to represent an orchid, a symbol often used to represent intersex people.
Intersex flag created by Lucas F. Wainsworth. Ochre for for ipsogender, or cis identifying intersex people. Yellow for the intersex community in general and every intersex variation. White is for nonbinary and trans intersex people. Lavender for intergender/x-folk ie those marked intersex at birth, for those who feel being intersex is their gender. Purple is for wholeness and unity.
A transgender and intersex combination flag done by @TransEthics on twitter for people who are both trans and intersex.
My trans and intersex flag, with separate colors to show it is a unique identity to be both. Colors taken from the OII intersex flag and trans flag but with the blue and pink from the trans flag mixed and yellow and purple from the OII intersex flag mixed and put together, with the white stripe in the middle from the trans flag included since it is also for intersex people.