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Transmasculine flag

Pink on the outside, blues inside: a flag for trans men and transmasculine people.

What the colours mean

Pink, on the outside Being assigned female at birth.
Blues, on the inside Being a boy or a man.

Where it comes from

This flag was submitted anonymously to the Tumblr blog Pride Flags For Us in April 2015, as a "trans guy flag", together with a matching flag for trans women. Its creator is not known.

What the colours mean

Its creator explained that the pink on the outside stood for how people saw the person at birth, and the blue on the inside for who he actually is. Some people now find that framing dated, because it leans on pink and blue stereotypes. Put more plainly: the outside stands for being assigned female at birth, and the inside for being male.

The four-stripe alternative

In April 2019 a Reddit user posted a different design: white, light blue, blue and near-black stripes. The creator described the gradient as the range of people under the label and transition itself, and the white and black as people who identify this way but express themselves differently.

The four-stripe transmasc flag, 2019.

Many use the trans flag

Neither design is universally accepted. Many trans men and transmasculine people simply fly the transgender flag, which covers everyone under the trans umbrella.

Questions people ask

What does the transmasc flag look like?

The most common design has seven stripes: pink at the top and bottom, and three shades of blue inside, darkest in the centre.

What do the transmasc flag colours mean?

Pink on the outside for being assigned female at birth, and blue on the inside for being a boy or a man.

Is there more than one transmasculine flag?

Yes. A four-stripe design of white, light blue, blue and near-black was posted in 2019, and many transmasculine people use the transgender flag instead.

In the glossary

Transmasculine FTM Transgender

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Transgender flagLight blue, pink and white, in a pattern that reads the same whichever way up you fly it.Genderfluid flagFive stripes for a gender that moves: femininity, the absence of gender, the mix, all genders and masculinity.Agender flagSeven symmetrical stripes, with black and white for the absence of gender and green for non-binary genders.Genderqueer flagLavender, white and green: androgyny, agender identities and genders outside the binary.Intersex flagA yellow field and a purple circle, in colours chosen to be free of gender associations.Demiboy flagGreys, light blue and white: a partial connection to being a boy or a man.Demigirl flagGreys, pink and white: a partial connection to being a girl or a woman.Bigender flagPinks, lavender, white and blues, for people who have two genders.Transfeminine flagBlue on the outside, pinks inside: a flag for trans women and transfeminine people.Pangender flagPale yellow, peach, pink and white: many genders, blended like light.Androgyne flagPink, purple and blue in vertical stripes, for a gender that combines masculine and feminine.Genderflux flagPinks, grey, blues and yellow: a gender whose intensity rises and falls.