Here’s Why People Are Using the Lobster Emoji to Rally For Transgender Representation

Maine's lobster emoji has emerged as an unlikely symbol for transgender representation, thanks to the trans activism group Lobsters Against Transphobia.

According to the Portland Press Herald, the adoption of the lobster emoji as a trans symbol began after the group created an online petition last month asking Unicode to make a pink-and-blue flag, a universally acknowledged symbol in the transgender community, in emoji form.