#progress trans flag

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I post these in the hopes that maybe someday nonbinary people who are not transmasculine or transfeminine or whatever the next Brand New Progressive This Time Gender Binary will be in the next five years will actually have our voices heard and respected by the rest of the trans community, instead of constantly being erased and told that we're the reason conservatives hate trans people.

It's May 2025. Pride month starts in 16 days. You'd think we wouldn't have to keep asking for the bare minimum level of inclusion in conversations that affect us, but you'd be wrong.

The only nonbinary people the trans community even remotely respects are transfeminine and transmasculine people, and even they don't even get real respect. But at least they get to have their existence acknowledged on posts claiming to be about uplifting the most invisible trans people.

But we're so invisible we don't even get the privilege of being mentioned in passing, even by the most seemingly progressive people talking about trans issues.

If you think saying "trans men and transmascs and trans women and transfems" is you including the entire trans community, you are admitting you only see nonbinary people as trans if we force ourselves back into the gender binary that makes you so comfortable.

It's May 15 2025, 16 days until Pride Month begins, and I just had to see someone respond to a post about not excluding nonbinary people by saying that nonbinary people who want to be included are, and I directly literally quote, "the reason grandpa can't keep up with all the different term changes."

So.

Before Pride Month actually gets here, how about everyone, cis women, cis men, trans women, trans men, transfems, transmascs, how about you all please just take five minutes to think about the nonbinary people who do not fit into any of those categories and please actually take the time to remind yourself that we exist, and do your part to not actively exclude us from the community we have always been apart of and always will.

Are you trying to talk about the whole trans community? You need to just flat out say "nonbinary people". Not "transfem and transmasc nonbinary people" they are already included when you say transfems and transmascs.

You need to actually care about those of us who have nothing to do with the gender binary. You need to acknowledge us. You need to care about us. You need to listen to us.

If you do not care enough to just say "nonbinary people" when you're claiming to support the entire trans community, please just actually think about why that is. Ask yourself why you think we don't need to be included.

Ask yourself why the only nonbinary people you'll even pretend to include are the ones who are willing to fit into the gender binary.

Please just actually try to care about the rest of us too.

You are encouraged to download these and share them to other sites / blogs as long as you copy and paste the image description too. Including the part describing the flag. You should always describe the pride flag involved in art instead of just listing the name. It will always be someone's first time encountering it.

[ID: The progress trans flag, with text in front reading, "You still have to include nonbinary people in the conversation even when we aren't transfeminine or transmasculine". The progress trans flag has eight horizontal stripes of: Purple, black, blue, pink, white, yellow, black, and brown. In the center is a gold circle with rings of purple and black around it. End ID.]

[ID: The same flag, now reading, "If the only trans people you stand up for are trans men, transmascs, trans women, and transfems...you're abandoning so many nonbinary people to fend for ourselves". End ID.]

[ID: The same flag, now reading, "If you can't even bring yourself to say the words 'nonbinary people' you have no right to say you care about all trans people". End ID.]

[ID: The same flag, now reading, "You have to care about all nonbinary people, not just the ones who are transmasculine or transfeminine". The words 'all nonbinary people' are underlined for emphasis. End ID.]

[ID: The same flag, now reading, "Nonbinary people should not have to force ourselves back into the closet just to get you to acknowledge our existence". End ID.]

[neopronouns-in-action]

So can we start calling this the progress trans flag and using this, or is that too radical a concept for people in 2023?

[ID: A version of the progress trans flag with eight horizontal stripes of: purple, black, blue, pink, white, yellow, black, and brown. In the center are concentric circles of black, dark purple, and gold. End ID.]

Explicitly include nonbinary and intersex people in the trans pride flag. Not just “including nonbinary people” as a single single white stripe for people with “neutral” genders that 99% of people don’t even know is for nonbinary people, and instead think is there to represent transitioning.

If you want support nonbinary people, one small step is to explicitly include us in the trans pride flag, and not just by lumping all of us together into a single “neutral” category that seems like it’s only there to separate the pink and blue stripes.

I’m tired of binary people, both cis and trans, promoting exorsexism and erasing and speaking over nonbinary people. If the pride flag can change to explicitly include and support trans people and people of color, then the trans flag can change too.

Being trans is not just for binary men and women. It’s not just for perisex people or white people. It’s 2023. How about we put the most erased parts of our community front and center in the trans community, and how about the rest of the trans community be proud to fight with us?

There are three main versions of this flag, with the most simplified version up top.

Symmetrical version:

[ID: Three versions of the trans progress pride flag, both with symetrical horizontal stripes of purple, black, blue, pink, yellow, white, yellow, pink, blue, black, and purple. The first version includes a brown sideways chevron, followed by a gold triangle of the intersex flag, with the dark purple circle in the center. The second version has a brown diamond in the center, with concentric circles of black, dark purple, and gold inside it. The third version has only the stripes. End ID.]

The white and yellow stripe on this six-striped version are reversed so that the white stripe, like the black, is easy to see against all background colors.

[ID: Two versions of the six-striped version of the trans progress pride flag, with stripes of purple, black, blue, pink, white, and yellow. The first version includes a brown sideways chevron, followed by a gold triangle of the intersex flag, with the purple circle in the center. The second version has a brown diamond in the center, with concentric circles of black, dark purple, and gold inside it. The third version has only the stripes. End ID.]

Here is the web archive link where you can download the HD versions of these flags, including the symbols:

“https://archive.org/details/progress-trans-flag”

Do not add images to this post unless they include a plain text image description in the body of the post directly below the image.

ALT text is not accessible for everyone who needs an image description. Plain text image descriptions are the most accessible option. That’s why I used an image description and not ALT text.

Please also do not suggest replacements or variations of this flag that leave out the black, white, purple, or yellow. They were all chosen for a reason. You can add other colors if you want, but removing the purple, yellow, black, or white is just as egregious as removing the blue or pink would be.

The black, white, yellow, and purple all represent forms of identity outside the binary. Combining the black and white into grey erases so many people and completely misunderstands the purpose of those stripes.

These are the baseline colors for the flag, you can customize them via less saturation, darkness, ect, when making art or using it for your own purposes. You do not need to color pick directly from this flag any time you use it.

Edit 12/10/23: go read this post too.

[rjalker]

And one version of the post with just the simplest version.

Here's the expanded post.

Here's the web archive link to download this flag, and the other versions, in HD.

The trans progress flag, created to explicitly include intersex people, nonbinary people, and people of color.

This flag is public domain because I created it and I said so. You are allowed to do anything you want with it, including sell things you make with it.

The only thing I ask is that if you share it to other sites or repost it, copy and paste the image description I am including below.

[ID: The trans progress flag, with stripes of purple, black, blue, pink, white, yellow, black, and brown. In the center are concentric circles of black, purple, and gold. End ID.]

These are the baseline colors for the flag. You are under zero obligation to color pick directly from here when making art or crafts.

Do not add undescribed images to this post. If you are going to add images, they must include a plain-text image description in the body of the post. ALT text is not accessible to everyone who needs an image description.

[rjalker]

Remaking this on the correct blog this time so I can actually get notifications. I posted it to @neopronouns-in-action by accident the first time, and that blog is meant to just be the short stories. So there's two of this post now and IDC.

Here is a version of this post with only the most simplified version of the flag.

So can we start calling this the progress trans flag and using this, or is that too radical a concept for people in 2023?

[ID: A version of the progress trans flag with eight horizontal stripes of: purple, black, blue, pink, white, yellow, black, and brown. In the center are concentric circles of black, dark purple, and gold. End ID.]

Explicitly include nonbinary and intersex people in the trans pride flag. Not just "including nonbinary people" as a single single white stripe for people with "neutral" genders that 99% of people don't even know is for nonbinary people, and instead think is there to represent transitioning.

If you want support nonbinary people, one small step is to explicitly include us in the trans pride flag, and not just by lumping all of us together into a single "neutral" category that seems like it's only there to separate the pink and blue stripes.

I'm tired of binary people, both cis and trans, promoting exorsexism and erasing and speaking over nonbinary people. If the pride flag can change to explicitly include and support trans people and people of color, then the trans flag can change too.

Being trans is not just for binary men and women. It's not just for perisex people or white people. It's 2023. How about we put the most erased parts of our community front and center in the trans community, and how about the rest of the trans community be proud to fight with us?

There are three main versions of this flag, with the most simplified version up top.

Symetrical version:

[ID: Three versions of the trans progress pride flag, both with symetrical horizontal stripes of purple, black, blue, pink, yellow, white, yellow, pink, blue, black, and purple. The first version includes a brown sideways chevron, followed by a gold triangle of the intersex flag, with the dark purple circle in the center. The second version has a brown diamond in the center, with concentric circles of black, dark purple, and gold inside it. The third version has only the stripes. End ID.]

The white and yellow stripe on this six-striped version are reversed so that the white stripe, like the black, is easy to see against all background colors.

[ID: Two versions of the six-striped version of the trans progress pride flag, with stripes of purple, black, blue, pink, white, and yellow. The first version includes a brown sideways chevron, followed by a gold triangle of the intersex flag, with the purple circle in the center. The second version has a brown diamond in the center, with concentric circles of black, dark purple, and gold inside it. The third version has only the stripes. End ID.]

Here is the web archive link where you can download the HD versions of these flags, including the symbols:

"https://archive.org/details/progress-trans-flag"

Do not add images to this post unless they include a plain text image description in the body of the post directly below the image.

ALT text is not accessible for everyone who needs an image description. Plain text image descriptions are the most accessible option. That's why I used an image description and not ALT text.

Please also do not suggest replacements or variations of this flag that leave out the black, white, purple, or yellow. They were all chosen for a reason. You can add other colors if you want, but removing the purple, yellow, black, or white is just as egregious as removing the blue or pink would be.

The black, white, yellow, and purple all represent forms of identity outside the binary. Combining the black and white into grey erases so many people and completely misunderstands the purpose of those stripes.

These are the baseline colors for the flag, you can customize them via less saturation, darkness, ect, when making art or using it for your own purposes. You do not need to color pick directly from this flag any time you use it.

[rjalker]

[ID: Nine designs in the colors of the transnonbinary flag, with stripes of purple, black, blue, pink, yellow, white, yellow, pink, blue, black, and purple. The first is an abstract pattern of a flower whose petals are all symmetrical, with designs inside in the colors of the flag. The second is a pronoun pin with white in the center, the flag stripes around the edge, and the text that reads, “ask for my pronouns” in the colors of the stripes. The third is a digital drawing of a flower with many thin petals, alternating in the flag colors. The three in the center are of the the transnonbinary flag. The first shows a version of the nonbinary symbol, with a circle in the center, and three lines radiating out from it. From the bottom is the venus symbol, a short cross, representing women. From the top left diagonal is the mars symbol, an arrow, representing men. From the top right diagonal is a line with a smaller circle at the other end, representing nonbinary people. The second is the normal transnonbinary flag, and the third reads, “Queer as in fuck you". The last three designs have black backgrounds. The first is a large central star surrounded by smaller stars. The next is a set of fangs, and the last is a crescent moon surrounded by small stars. End ID.]

Edit July 28th, 2023, now renamed to the progress trans flag! Because I'm tired of exorsexism!

The progress trans flag is meant to be a more blatantly inclusive counterpart to the original trans flag, since most people don't realize the white stripe on the trans flag is for nonbinary people, they think it's for transitioning, or just there to separate the pink and blue stripes :[

Anyways, like with all my art / pride designs, you are 100% encouraged to save these to your computer/phone/whatever. You can print them out, put them on shirts or buttons or literally anything you want, as long as you aren't selling them for a profit! You can use them for icons, headers, moodboards, literally anything you want! I only ask that you include an image description wherever possible, to make it accessible!

Here's the original post with the progress trans flag and two alternate versions :)

[rjalker]

Edit July 28th, 2023: Now renamed to the progress trans flag!

first two progress trans flag pins. The first one on the left (<-) I accidentally messed up the order of the stripes, but it's not a big deal. I was also testing which shade of purple to use. The lighter one is "lilac mist", and the darker one is "velvet crush". I'll definitely be using velvet crush from now on, the lilac mist is to pale and looks like it's faded.

Here's what the digital version looks like:

[ID: A pride flag with eleven symmetrical stripes of purple, black, blue, pink, yellow, white, yellow, pink, blue, black, and purple. End ID.]

The official digital flag colors are:

purple: BF66BD black: 333333 blue: 67CAEB pink: F5A8B8 yellow: F5E885 white: F7F7F7

[ID: A photo of two painted wooden circles sitting on a keyboard. The first is painted with symstrical stripes of: pale pruple, blue, black, pink, yellow, white, yellow, pink, black, blue, and pale purple.

The second is painted purple, black, blue, pink, yellow, white, yellow, pink, blue, black, and purple.

End ID.]