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Re:“Melting face,” “pregnant person,” and 35 other emoji app... by mc32 on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @05:51PM (#28544820)
That makes sense but that must be a very small percentage of all people who can potentially become pregnant.
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Re:“Melting face,” “pregnant person,” and 35 other emoji app... by jfengel on Thursday September 16, 2021 @12:37PM (#28553934)
That's correct. It has happened, but not many times.

It wasn't really the most pressing thing for the Unicode consortium to do. It's just that they had the asymmetry, and it was easy to fix, so they did.

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