---
title: "Google Is Adding 53 Gender-Fluid Emoji to Its Smartphones"
description: "Google is launching a series of gender-fluid emoji for its smartphones, the latest example of efforts to make the tiny symbols more inclusive."
date: "2019-05-09"
modified: "2019-05-09"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-adding-53-gender-fluid-emoji"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
  - "Future Society"
  - "Google"
tags:
  - "emoji"
  - "gender"
  - "Google"
  - "the digest"
---

# Google Is Adding 53 Gender-Fluid Emoji to Its Smartphones

![Google is launching a series of gender-fluid emoji for its smartphones, the latest example of efforts to make the tiny symbols more inclusive.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/google-adding-53-gender-fluid-emoji.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Google\</em\>*

## Inclusive Designs

Google is releasing 53 new gender-fluid emoji, according to a *Fast Company* [exclusive](<https://www.fastcompany.com/90343461/google-releases-gender-fluid-emoji>) — the latest example of efforts to make the tiny symbols [more inclusive](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/new-emoji-prosthetic-arms-legs>).

"We’re not calling this the non-binary character, the third gender, or an asexual emoji — and not gender neutral. Gender neutral is what you call pants," Android emoji director Jennifer Daniel, who sits on the Unicode consortium, told *Fast Company*. "But you can create something that feels more inclusive."

## Representing All

The work-in-progress designs shared with *Fast Company* exhibit many of the same features of the more gendered emoji, but with tiny tweaks that make the characters appear neither male nor female — or perhaps both.

The newly designed merperson emoji, for example, boasts chin-length curls, an orange tail, and crossed arms over its chest. Meanwhile, the new vampire wears a chain across its lapels, an accessory that's a bit more gender-neutral than the necklace or bowtie sported by the seemingly female- and male-presenting vampires, respectively.

## First Launch

The new gender-fluid emoji will launch as part of a Pixel smartphone beta release this week, with a roll out to all Android Q phones planned for later in 2019, at which point they'll join the recently released emoji designed to better represent [people with disabilities](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/new-emoji-prosthetic-arms-legs>).

As *Fast Company* points out, Google collaborates with Apple and other tech companies when developing emojis, so we could see others release their own versions of the new gender-fluid emoji in the near future.

**READ MORE:** [Exclusive: Google releases 53 gender fluid emoji](<https://www.fastcompany.com/90343461/google-releases-gender-fluid-emoji>) \[*Fast Company*\]

**More on emoji:** *[Inclusive New Emoji Include Prosthetic Arms and Legs](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/new-emoji-prosthetic-arms-legs>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)