I love Lost's crossdreamer flag, as it does indicate that we belong to the wider transgender community, but at the same time represents one (or many?) parts of that diversity.



The two snakes with wings also refers to Hermes, the messenger of the gods, and as I see it crossdreamers and crossdressers do often carry the message that the world is much more complex than frightened people would like it to be. Besides, together with Aphrodite Hermes got the child Hermaprhoditus (i.e. Hermes+Aphroditus) who was merged with the water nymph Salmacis, joining the male with the female.



I also like the link to Morpheus, who -- as many of us know -- was reincarnated by Laurence Fishbourne in the Matrix movie, a movie made by two transgender women (and most likely crossdreamers). In the Matrix Morpheus is the one presenting Neo with the famous red and blue pills. The red pill (in the binary referring to the female) is the one that leads to enlightenment. A coincidence? Naaaah....



By the way: The spear has normally also gender connotations, because of its phallic nature. But, in mystical Christianity it also indirectly refers to the female. In the gospels Jesus is pierced with a spear while on the cross, and blood and water come out. This has been intepreted as a symbol of birth, giving Jesus the role of the mother of rebirth. This was a common idea all the way up to the Baroque period.



Source: Wikipedia and more.

Prideshack! I like that one. Thank you for sharing the URL.I belong to those who stick to the broad definition of transgender, as in any shade of gender variant, and that encompasses most -- if not all -- crossdreamers and crossdressers. The Transgender Pride flag presented by Lost was created by American trans woman Monica Helms in 1999, and follows that approach.Helms describes the meaning of the transgender pride flag as follows: "The stripes at the top and bottom are light blue, the traditional color for baby boys. The stripes next to them are pink, the traditional color for baby girls. The stripe in the middle is white, for those who are intersex, transitioning or consider themselves having a neutral or undefined gender. The pattern is such that no matter which way you fly it, it is always correct, signifying us finding correctness in our lives."There are those who have critizised the reference to the binary colors of pink and blue, but as long as there is white for alll those outside the binary, I guess that is all right.