性別記号
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性別記号（せいべつきごう）またはジェンダーシンボル（英語: gender symbol）とは、生物学的性別または社会学的性別（ジェンダー）の別を表すための記号である。生物学・医学、系図、アイデンティティ政治・LGBT関連で用いられる。
- ^ 世界中に広まる男女が並ぶトイレマークは、日本で生まれたって本当？【日本の不思議】。『絵を使って何らかの意味を指し示すデザインは、世の中にたくさん。そのうちトイレのマークは、1964年の東京オリンピックで全面的に採用され、世界に大きく広まったという歴史があると言われています。』
- ^ “【発見！】 世界に普及したトイレのマーク（絵文字・ピクトグラム）は日本発と知ってましたか？”. 2017年12月6日閲覧。
- ^ sex-segregated public bathrooms existed since at least the 1880s, originally labelled in writing. The stick-figure pictograms were popularized with their introduction by British Rail in the 1960s. The genius behind the stick figure toilet signs, BBC Future (2014). "One of the best early examples of intuitive global signs for public lavatories was that created for British Rail in the mid-1960s. [...] In the 1970s, the British example was developed on a more comprehensive basis in the United States. In 1974, the US Department of Transportation commissioned the American Institute of Graphic Arts to create a set of pictograms to be used throughout public transport networks whether road, rail, air or sea." "In Poland, meanwhile, you can come across lavatories indicating “gents” with a triangle and “ladies” with a circle, while in Lithuania men are represented by an inverted pyramid and women by a pyramid standing the right way up."
- ^ Stearn, William T. (May 1962). “The Origin of the Male and Female Symbols of Biology”. Taxon 11 (4): 109–113. doi:10.2307/1217734. JSTOR 1217734.
- ^ Zhigang, Zhigang (25 September 2009). “A HIV-1 heterosexual transmission chain in Guangzhou, China: a molecular epidemiological study”. Virology Journal (BioMed Central) 6 (148): Figure 1. doi:10.1186/1743-422X-6-148 2015年12月31日閲覧. "(Mars male gender symbol) indicates male; (female Venus gender symbol) indicates female"
- ^ a b c Schott, G D (24 Dec 2005). “Sex symbols ancient and modern: their origins and iconography on the pedigree”. BMJ (British Medical Journal) 331 (7531): 1509–1510. doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1509 2015年12月31日閲覧。.
- ^ “Symbolism”. LGBTQA+ WebCenter. Eastern Illinois University. 2015年12月31日閲覧。 “Double interlocking female symbols are often been used [sic] to symbolize lesbianism, but some feminists have instead used the double female symbols to represent sisterhood among women and three interlocking female symbols to denote lesbianism. In the 1970’s, some lesbian feminists used three interlocking female symbols to represent their rejection of male standards of monogamy.”
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