Emoji are currently either male or female — but that could be about to change

There are currently no emoji for people who don't identify as male or female — but that could change very soon.

Unicode's draft emoji list for new emoji releases contains three gender inclusive emoji, which — if approved in their current state — could come to most phones by the end of the year. 

The proposed emoji depict a child, adult and an older person with "gender inclusive visual attributes." According to the proposal, the emoji are "open to interpretation in terms of gender without implying masculine or feminine gender explicitly."  Read more...