Why are the people emoji changing sex?

[jeffgoldblum]

I have noticed the last few days that every time I post 🤷♀️, it is automatically changed to a boy !
im not alone apparently, what is happening here?
I sincerely hope that mn are not changing skintone on poc posters too!

And exhibit one!!! That was a girl until I pressed send!!! 😡

I’ve noticed this too… going to do a test here as well 🤷🏻♀️

Oh fgs, that was also a shrugging woman 😅

I’m going to test by posting a boy instead!
🤷

🤷🏻♀️

It gets worse @MooseLooseAboutTheHoose! , they didn’t change the boy symbol! 😡

🤷🏼🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♂️
I've got three shrug emojis on my Pixel. I think all of them could be either male or female. There's no discernable sex characteristics - the only difference is hair and shirt colour.

🤷🏼

I wonder if it’s a trans related hack/someone on the team having a joke

👩🏼👩🏽‍⚕️👩🏻‍🦰👩🏻‍🍳👩🏻‍🏫🧝🏼‍♀️🤰🏼🤦🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

What’s happening mn? I can post a boy but when I attempt to post a girl it’s automatically changed to a boy?
this doesn’t look good does it?

I only use old style mumsnet emoji.
Are the other ones controlled by mumsnet, or part of the browser?

🤷♀️🤷♂️ girl then boy

🤷🏻♀️ - woman
🤷♂️ - man
🤷 - I think this is supposed to be either tbh

eta they changed my long haired woman to a short haired man and my man to the ambiguous one

although now I zoom in the faces look feminine somehow but short hair

Mine stayed the same was interested to see if the pregnant one changed to male🫃🏻 (wtf)

That one is classed as male though.

🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️

Interesting. It seems 🤷🏼 is androgynous.

What phone do you have? There might be a third option.

Interesting. I put two different emojis and not only did it turn the girl one into a boy it also added in the sex ones which were not in my message

Those were three girls by the way!

It seems they are changing both male and female to the androgynous one and then putting the sex marker on (to clarify?). Bizarre

The same iPhone I’ve been using and posting these on mn for years with no issue!

Maybe the browser just doesn't support the plethora of modern emojis.

Though I can make a 'boy' one and surprised you can't. I think it might be a your phone problem.

Though FWIW I feel like the 'boy' one you posted could be either. It's a person with mid length hair.
🤷🏼 - Either
🤷🏼♂️ - Man
🤷🏼♀️- Woman

🙎🏾♀️

For gods sake ! I tried changing skintone on the lady and they have changed her to a man too! , at least they did not change the skintone I suppose!

That’s my point!!! I can make a boy! 🤷 , it’s only the girls who are changed!