The Transgender Pride Flag was first designed in 1999 by Monica Helms - a trans woman, former U.S. Navy veteran, and activist. 

She created it after a conversation with the creator of the bisexual-pride flag, who pointed out the trans community needed its own symbol. 

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_Monica Helms, the creator of the trans pride flag_

The flag made its first public debut at a Pride parade in Phoenix in 2000, marking the first time a visible, unified symbol represented trans identity in that way. 

In August 2014, Helms donated the very first transgender flag she ever made to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History - making it a piece of documented queer history preserved for generations to come.

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_The first ever trans flag is displayed in the Smithsonian National Museum _

The flag’s design uses blue and pink to reference the traditional colors assigned to boys and girls at birth, while the white stripe represents people who are intersex, transitioning, nonbinary or gender-neutral.

Importantly, the design is symmetrical - “no matter which way you fly it, it’s always correct” - symbolising 
the idea of finding rightness in your gender.

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_Legend, we love you Monica x_

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The O.G. trans Pride flag is now preserved forever 

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