Finnish presidential home and presidential castle raise trans inclusive pride flags for a week.

The rainbow flag is already trans inclusive, the rainbow includes everyone

With the current significance of the movement represented by the "LGB Alliance" I don't think it's undue to stress the T.
- LGBTQ+ is 100% covered by the rainbow flag. It is absolutely ridiculous to claim otherwise.
  This is like insisting the American flag is only for Republicans.
- Tbf, a lot of that was driven by the wave of transwomen getting mad that lesbians aren't attracted to them. And I never saw any pushback against these posts in the trans community.
  Was there right-wing groups amplifying the reach of these comments? Yes. Should the entire trans community suffer for a small number of assholes among their ranks? Hell no.
  Regardless, the lack of pushback in the trans community and its effects shows the need for groups to self-regulate to some degree. There's assholes in every group, and pretending that there aren't is dangerous.
But its nice to have the actual colors on it though. I like switching between the 2 because they both look really nice.
- As a matter of color I don't like the abrupt transition from pastel cyan to brown... but it's nice for what it means.
  I like this Julia Feliz diagonal one much better: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Pride_Flag_by_Julia_Feliz_2018.svg
  idk it doesn't seem so jarring to me that way. Maybe because the absence of the bend avoids emphasizing the contact and thus contrast with the pastel cyan.
I agree, we dont need more than the rainbow flag. But I feel people can put on it whatever they want. Except their genitals maybe.
My autisitic son insists that pink isn't a real color and has no business being included in any rainbow.
- It doesn't have a corresponding wavelength in the spectrum of visible light, but as we perceive it to be there and have a name for it, it doesn't really matter that there's no specific wavelength it corresponds to.
  By that metric abstract things likely love, justice, duty, honour, could be argued to not be real either. Can't touch them or there's no corresponding physical thing in the world to measure them.

For those that view this particular version of the pride flag redundant: Yes, you are technically correct. The rainbow is supposed to symbolize inclusion.

However, recent political movements seek to divide and exclude particular groups from the queer community, namely trans people. By choosing a flag that explicitly includes those colors, you are explicitly denouncing that division.

And by choosing to accept the rainbow flag as all inclusive, you also denounce division.
The idea that we need to specifically call out everyone in need of coverage is asinine, and in itself divisive.
- This is the same argument people use for “all lives matter” and anti-DEI.
  In a perfect world, it should be equal, but to make this argument is ignoring the reality that it’s not.
- This flag is better since there are a surprising number of gay people who are anti-trans. Completely bananas if you ask me.
- Truth.
Also, the triangle part is just really cool as well. I love both, but the progress pride one feels much more officially flaggy to me :)

Had to reread that headline 3 times to not have my brain turn "presidential castle," into "presidential cattle."

Good

Coolest flag

Are these gestures empty or meaningful?

If the White House in the US raised the same flag today, would it have meaning?
- It absolutely would not. There would need to be something behind it.
  Would it have meaning during a Democratic government though?

This flag fucking sucks. You'd think gay people could design a flag worth a damn but all they've done is slap ugly ass colour conflicts on an already colour saturated base.

Like take a look at the original lesbian flag before suddenly the community decided corporate branding was ideal theme to mimic.

It's the ol' "keep adding elements until everything is explicitly included" problem in vexillology.
But hey, it's a great way to keep selling new merch every few years...

Did it have to be one of those ugly and redundant derivatives of the perfectly fine rainbow flag of diversity?

Given fascism currently focuses on trans and black/non-white people and actively tries to separare them from the community: Yes. Yes it did.
The black and brown also represent a completely different movement, it should just be the rainbow flag.
- But did you know black people can be gay? Betcha didn't. Glad we added that to the flag to remind you.
whoever designed the flag probably figured they have to add all the colors, so all of them would feel included and none of them would feel offended
- If that were the case there would be a lot more.

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