why the trans flag emoji uses the codepoints it uses

2026-01-07 correction: I incorrectly asserted that the 5 codepoints took 6 bytes to represent. Brainfog moment; thank you Peter for the pointing this out! Back in 2018, I was an intern at facebook 1 . I was also very early into my transition, so I was very in-the-loop with my trans collegeaues - and I heard about how one of the messenging teams (messenger? whatsapp? maybe both?) was going to be…