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By Sarah Treanor and Vivienne Nunis
Business reporters
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image captionFor many, emojis are part of the language of sending messages but who decides which ones we can use?
Do you have a favourite emoji? Maybe it s the wink or the face rolling around with tears of laughter. Perhaps if you re feeling slightly more sardonic, it s the smiling face with jazz hands.
With more than 3,000 to choose from, there are plenty of options.
But what happens when the one emoji you want isn t there?
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Thanks to gender neutrality, there may soon be an emoji of a pregnant man. In anticipation of Saturday s World Emoji Day, a Thursday Emojipedia blog post from Jeremy Burge previewed New Emojis in 2021-2022. Among them is a pregnant man.
According to Burge s post: Pregnant Man and Pregnant Person are new, and recognize that pregnancy is possible for some transgender men and non-binary people. These are additions to the existing ?? Pregnant Woman emoji.
When Burge claims that the new emojis recognize something, it s actually doing so in a way that denies biology, considering only women can get pregnant and birth children.
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