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  • How we ended up with the 'Pregnant Man' Emoji

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    This all made perfect sense to me until this section:
    The proposed names of the new characters, "man with swollen belly" and "person with swollen belly", are completely semantically detached from the meaning of U+1F930, which is never the case for emoji that form a gender triplet. 
    This shows a clear preference the a non-existent reality “pregnant man” over the semantic detachment of “swollen belly.” 

    I’m all for gender fluidity and for people to have the freedom to identify how they want to identify. I honor and appreciate people’s subjective experience. 

    I also recognize biological sex as an objective reality. With that, biological men can’t get pregnant. Biological women who identify as men, can get pregnant. Both may have swollen bellies for different reasons. But they both can’t be pregnant. 

    So, logically, the best way to include everyone here and have the emoji serve communication without trying to make a political statement would be to simply rename it swollen belly. That would allow its meaning to be created and interpreted through each use case. 

    Of course that may not help people who want to be mad, but at least it would be consistent. 
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