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|The transcommunist symbol, combining the traditional transgender symbol with the communist hammer and sickle, indicating transgender support of communism and/or queer liberation.

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| [[File:Another hermaphrodite symbol transparent.svg|frameless|thumb|100px]]

| Symbol for a mix of female (Venus) and male (Mars). Can mean [[intersex]] or [[transgender]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Symbols|author=lucas|date=26 July 2006 |url=http://societies.dsu.ca/DalOUT/resources/symbolsdoc |archive-date=21 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821235501/http://societies.dsu.ca/DalOUT/resources/symbolsdoc}}</ref> Botanical symbol for [[hermaphrodite]]. This symbol is also used to represent bigender individuals whose two genders are female and male.<ref name="Cari" /><ref name="Silence">{{Cite web |title=Gender Symbols + Orientation Symbols |author=SilenceTheFox |work=DeviantArt |date=13 February 2019 |access-date=10 June 2020 |url= https://www.deviantart.com/silencethefox/art/Gender-Symbols-Orientation-Symbols-785530334 }}</ref> Can also be interpreted as representing [[heterosexuality]].<ref>[https://emojipedia.org/male-and-female-sign/ ⚥ Male and Female Sign], Emojipedia, retrieved 15 November 2020</ref>

| U+26A5 ⚥

| [[File:Gender-Symbol Hermaphrodite Androgyne dark transparent Background.png|frameless|thumb|100px]]

| [[Androgyne]], [[intersex]], or [[other gender]] symbol. Made from female (Venus) and male (Mars) symbols. Can point other directions, but meanings of this aren't agreed upon. Also the alchemical symbol for iron sulfate.

| U+26A8 ⚨ or U+26A6 ⚦ or U+26A9 ⚩

! Symbol

! Description

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| [[File:Agender symbol.png|frameless|thumb|100px]]

| An [[agender]] symbol made by tumblr user system-lgbt.

| U+2205 ∅

| [[File:Aliagender symbol.png|frameless|thumb|100px]]

| An [[aliagender]] symbol designed by a group of non-binary Brazilians in 2014.<ref name="Cari" />

| [[File:Demiboy symbol.png|frameless|thumb|100px]]

| A [[demiboy]] symbol designed by a group of non-binary Brazilians in 2014.<ref name="Cari" /> It is a Mars symbol with half of the extending arrow removed.

| [[File:Demigirl symbol.png|frameless|thumb|100px]]

| A [[demigirl]] symbol designed by a group of non-binary Brazilians in 2014.<ref name="Cari" /> It is a Venus symbol with half of the extending cross removed.

| [[File:Genderfluid symbol 1.png|frameless|thumb|80px]] [[File:Genderfluid symbol 2.png|frameless|thumb|80px]] [[File:Genderfluid symbol 3.png|frameless|thumb|80px]]

| Various [[genderfluid]] symbols made by tumblr user system-lgbt.

| [[File:Genderqueer symbol.jpeg|frameless|thumb|100px]]

| An interlocked 'G' and 'Q' symbolizing the [[genderqueer]] identity. Dates back to at least 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gqsymbolproudava.png|title=File:Gqsymbolproudava.png|work=Wikimedia Commons|quote=Date: 3 September 2010}}</ref>

| [[File:Nonbinary gender symbol.gif|frameless|thumb|100px]]

| A gender symbol meant to represent [[nonbinary]] individuals specifically. The use of the "x" was a decision made by the [http://genderqueerid.com/post/27216986889/cakemeister-because-people-seem-to-like-it creator] (Johnathan R), in 2012, due to the rise of use of "x" as a letter that represents nonbinary individuals both legally and in [[pronouns]] and titles.

| [[File:Gender-Symbol Neutrois dark transparent Background.png|frameless|thumb|100px]]

| An [[agender]] symbol. Also a [[neuter]] or [[neutrois]] symbol. Based on Venus and Mars symbols, but with no prongs.

| U+26AA ⚪

| [[File:Gender-Symbol Neutrois Alternative dark transparent Background.png|frameless|thumb|100px]]

| A [[neutrois]] or [[neuter]] gender symbol, the latter used in botany. Also an older version of the Venus symbol.

| U+26B2 ⚲

| [[File:Neutrois Outpost symbol.jpg|alt=Neutrois Outpost Symbol - a purple triagle pointing doenwards, with a blue circle inside, and a smaller blue circle above connected to the triangle by a line|frameless|thumb|100px]]

| U+2205 ∅

| [[File:Nby woman.png|frameless|thumb|100px]]

| [[File:Gender-Symbol Other dark transparent Background.png|frameless|thumb|100px]]

=== More identity symbols===

| A [[butch]] symbol designed by a group of non-binary Brazilians in 2014.<ref name="Cari" /> It is a Mars symbol with elongated arms on the arrow.

| A [[femme]] symbol designed by a group of non-binary Brazilians in 2014.<ref name="Cari" /> It is a Venus symbol with longer arms on the cross.

| [[File:Mercury_symbol.svg|frameless|thumb|100px]]

|As a symbolic object, it represents Hermes (or the Roman Mercury), and by extension trades, occupations, or undertakings associated with the god. In later Antiquity, the caduceus provided the basis for the astrological symbol representing the planet Mercury. Thus, through its use in astrology, alchemy, and astronomy it has come to denote the planet and elemental metal of the same name. It is said the wand would wake the sleeping and send the awake to sleep. If applied to the dying, their death was gentle; if applied to the dead, they returned to life.