This flag is for MAPs, which stands for minor attracted person(s)
PSA TO MINORS: IF YOU SEE THIS “””PRIDE””” FLAG ANYWHERE BE WARNED Additionally, many also called out the problematic nature of using a term like ‘minor attracted persons’ to normalize pedophilia. Many on social media are warning LGBTI people and allies to be wary of the MAPs flag during Pride season. After all, isolation and depression are known to increase one’s risk of doing something they might regret.īy the way, we have talked to “Janes” who are women who identify as anti-contact, non-offending pedophiles and like “John”, they have no desire to sexually harm children.’Ĭonsidering the long-standing trope that LGBTI people are rapists and/or child molesters, the fact those who actually have attraction to children are attempting to co-opt LGBTI spaces is disturbing. “John” deserves support as do others who have a minor attraction.
He is also fervent about helping prevent child sexual abuse by speaking out against it and by showing his support of global child sexual abuse prevention programs on his social media. “John” is not a child molester nor is he a sex offender. Once he shared about his attraction to children, his therapist told him, “I don’t treat sex offenders,”’ a passage on The Prevention Project about MAPs reads. Although he was scared to share about himself with a stranger, he felt desperate for help as he had NO desire to harm anyone, ever. Desperate for help, John sought treatment for his shame, depression, and suicidality. They described how they would kill him on his twitter page and people supported their hate. The bullies were primarily people who claimed, based on their religious beliefs, that “John” was going to hell and deserved to die. He had been bullied by trolls on social media for most of his life for being different. MAPs attempts to soften the idea of pedophilia by insisting it’s not wrong if there is no contact. “Imagine if that was your gender.Groups of pedophiles are attempting to be part of the LGBTI community.Ī group known as MAPs (or Minor Attracted Persons, not to be confused with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) has been circulating its own version of the Pride flag. “Unicode granted the Lobster emoji proposal, which argued that people suffered ‘frustration and confusion’ at having to use a shrimp or crab emoji in instead of a lobster,” the petition reads. In August 2018, one frustrated trans activist even created a petition urging Unicode to add a trans Pride flag to its roster after the company approved a lobster design, but not a trans Pride emblem. New in Emoji 13.0: Transgender Flag #Emoji2020 /圓oEUHZUTD Among those additions is a trans Pride flag emoji, meant to resemble trans activist Monica Helms’ iconic design with five stripes: two blue, two pink, and one white.Īlthough Unicode approved a rainbow LGBTQ Pride flag back in 2016, the group angered transgender activists by taking its sweet time to sign off on a similar option for members of the trans and gender nonconforming community. Get ready to fire off some ? trans-inclusive text messages, because a transgender Pride flag emoji is finally on the way.Īs Business Insider reports, more than 100 new emojis have been approved for Emoji v13.0 by Unicode Consortium, the tech group that sets the industry standard for emoji options across different platforms and devices.