Gender symbol
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gender-symbol-165-10467033
title:
Gender symbol
text:
A gender symbol is a pictogram or glyph used to represent sex and gender, for example in biology and medicine, in genealogy, or in the sociological fields of gender politics, LGBT subculture and identity politics. In his books Mantissa Plantarum (1767) and Mantissa Plantarum Altera (1771), Carl Linnaeus regularly used the planetary symbols of Mars, Venus and Mercury – ♂, ♀, ☿ – for male, female and hermaphroditic (perfect) flowers, respectively. Botanists now use ⚥ for the last. In genealogy, in
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Symbols of gender, sex, or sexuality
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_symbol
date created:
2004-09-17T06:47:02Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T11:20:17Z
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13
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