Gender Census 2026, and future funding
(1) Gender Census 2026 coming soon...!
I'm posting this as a paid post, because I've been testing the 2026 survey on a new survey provider, and so far it's going well I think! (If you want a preview and to help with testing, click here.) I'm nervous because it's a new survey provider, but I'm cautiously optimistic.
If everything goes flawlessly the survey could open as soon as Monday, but I'm in charge so all bets are off. In the mean time I do have this promo image I can share with you:
I'm not bothering with press releases for opening the survey this year, because last year it didn't really make any difference. My journalist friend says a press release for when the results are published would make more of a splash, so I might do that?
Thank you, everyone! I appreciate you supporting me with your support and also your hard-earned cash, and I will do my best to bring you a delicious survey and a delectable results report. (I might be hungry.)
(2) Future funding
The instability of the survey provider situation (and how much it will cost) and Patreon yo-yoing about whether or not "per thing" projects are allowed has not been ideal for securing the Gender Census' future, but I think I've settled on a decision.
The new survey provider seems fairly affordable and within the Patreon provided budget. I really do not want to switch to a monthly plan with Patreon, but I'm going to assume that they'll shove me into one eventually whether I like it or not. And, I recently learned that I can have Patreon accumulate donations and I can trigger a payout once per year.
With that in mind, I'm going to:
- Use this very post to pull in donations for the 2026 survey, to cover costs for the survey software, hosting, mailing list costs, Fediverse hosting costs, etc.
- Spend the next few days (body and brain permitting) updating the Patreon info to reflect current and expected annual costs.
- Launch the 2026 survey. Warn everyone that funding will switch to monthly in the 2026 survey promotion (mailing list, etc). This will give everyone plenty of time to reduce their pledges if they need to.
- Let Patreon switch me over to a monthly funding model on 1st November 2026. (No need to have them start charging you sooner than necessary, right?)
- In 2027 (and every future year), when it's survey time I'll see whether monthly donations accumulated will cover annual costs, and if they don't, I'll run a one-off crowdfunding campaign to cover remaining costs.
(3) Unrelated gossip of a tangential nature
Someone ordered a 3D-printed fidget from the Gender Census shop recently, and often I have a few of everything in stock but this time I had to print to order.
The UK is currently experiencing a heatwave and my house is not built to stay cool in summer, so it was too hot to 3D-print in my house. I had to wait until midnight last night for it to cool down enough that the PLA (plastic filament) would behave, which meant I was up until 2am to handle the colour changes! I suffer for my art. 😅
If you are in the UK and you dislike experiencing these effects of human-induced climate crisis, putting your power (time, skills and/or money) into collective and political action has a bigger impact than anything you can do individually. My top suggestions are:
- Joining the Green Party, or just donating (England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland);
- Writing to your MP (super easy) to ask for something impactful and specific, like banning private jets, preventing data centres being built, or putting solar panels over car parks.
gendercensusRebloggedgendercensusFollowWhen someone writes your name, how important is capitalising the first letter?My name is only correct when the first letter is uppercase/capitalised23.1%My name is only correct when the first letter is lowercase/not capitalised3.9%My name is correct whether the first letter is capitalised or not70.3%N/A (name is initials, name is FULLY UPPERCASE, name is lost behind sofa, etc)2.7%Final result from 1,651 votes[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]gendercensusWhen counting people's names, should I...Combine names with identical spelling, regardless of capitalisation85.5%Count Capitalised Names separately from lowercase names12%Other (replies welcome!)2.4%Final result from 948 votes#poll#capitalisation18111132
gendercensusRebloggedgendercensusFollowI need a few hundred survey stress-testersIt's a test version of the annual survey on a new survey system.Can you please click here and do the test survey?Since it's a test survey there's a feedback box on each page. You can either:fill it in normally and tell me if anything breakstry to break it on purpose and tell me if anything goes wrongOnce testing is complete and the survey is ready, your test responses will be deleted and you'll be able to do the real survey properly.gendercensusPutting a testers' feedback box on every page of the survey is the best thing ever, I'm getting so many constructive comments and making many excellent improvements.There are things I can't control (e.g. you can't do bullet points on Tally for some reason?!?), but many things I can fix. All the feedback is helpful - typos, broken validation, stuff that breaks the page, forgotten links or headers, confusing help text, confusing paragraph order, accessibility stuff, etc etc.Also, you are welcome to do it again even if you have already done it!Keep going! :)#meta1169128
gendercensusAnonymous asked:why does the test survey allow blank responses for every question other than country? admittedly i don't remember how previous ones have done it but it seems like a strange choice[The post we're talking about]Yes, usually everything is optional except the country question! :)#meta21
gendercensusI need a few hundred survey stress-testersIt's a test version of the annual survey on a new survey system.Can you please click here and do the test survey?Since it's a test survey there's a feedback box on each page. You can either:fill it in normally and tell me if anything breakstry to break it on purpose and tell me if anything goes wrongOnce testing is complete and the survey is ready, your test responses will be deleted and you'll be able to do the real survey properly.#meta1169128
gendercensusqueerrpunk asked:hey, I go by a name that was chosen for me within the first year of my life by someone else BUT it wasn't my original first name (middle name) then I chose it as my first name later but if I say someone else chose it for me when I was born I can't answer the rest of the Q's?I'll start by clarifying context for readers:The first question after you answer a name is "Did someone choose this exact name for you within a year of your birth?" and if they didn't (you or someone else chose it for you when you were older than 1 year old), you get directed to two more questions:How recently did you start going by this name?Were you aiming for a particular gender vibe?I do get that this is a grey area, because for many people their second/middle name isn't the default name to go by. For some people they might decide to go by it later for transition reasons.This page logic choice was not because of the middle name thing, but because I wanted to take into account people who transitioned and asked their parents for a new name that suited them better.I think I stand by this decision. If any of your names are gender-neutral or otherwise suited to your eventual transition, and they were given to you when you were born, they should all be treated the same way in the survey. The important thing to pick up is the creation of a new name for you, and what your intentions were with it - and a middle name isn't a new name for you. Lots of non-trans people decide to go by their middle names for various reasons, right? So for nonbinary people taking the survey there would be no way to distinguish between "transition reasons" and "non-transition reasons" for middle birth names without adding another question, and it is too late for that now! I might consider it for next time though, if I do another name survey one day. :)[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#meta1341
gendercensusA pretty common theme with the current name survey is for people to leave the name textbox blank, answer all the questions about whether they chose their name and how long they've been going by it, and then PUT THEIR NAME (AND NOTHING ELSE) IN THE FEEDBACK BOX AT THE ENDAnd I want to do a video call with each of those people, reach through the screen, take them gently by the shoulders and shake them, and ask them why, WHY they wanted to do that, WHY.#meta88135
gendercensusRebloggedjebccFollowMultigender Combination Frequency MapI got bored, so I started playing around with numbers. I was curious, what is the most common multigender combination that exists? As a specific example, are agender men more common than non-binary women? Well thanks to the gender census 2024 data, I found that out:PERCENTAGES:Ordered from least to most common, the percentage of census participants that identified as:Agender Woman | 0.02%
Agender Non-Binary Woman | 0.15%
Just a Woman | 0.24%
Agender Man | 0.36%
Agender Man Woman | 0.37%
Non-Binary Woman | 0.73%
Just a Man | 1.71%
Agender Man Non-Binary | 2.02%
Man Woman | 2.74%
Just Agender | 2.99%
Agender Man Non-Binary Woman | 3.84%
Man Non-Binary | 6.16%
None of these umbrellas OR did not answer gender identity related questions | 10.46%
Man Non-Binary Woman | 12.89%
Agender Non-Binary | 13.97%
Just Non-Binary | 41.34%Individuals who only identify with one umbrella: 46.28%
Individuals who identify with multiple umbrellas: 43.25%
Unknown: 10.46%MAP:This is a map (where pink = highest in frequency, and blue = lowest in frequency) that represents the order of frequency based on the values above. To help explain:Agender Woman = #1 = very blue, Agender Non-Binary Woman = #2 = blueNon-Binary = #15 = very pinkAgender = #10 = both pink and blue (purple)KEY POINTS:For some reason, agender women don't exist (joke). I have some theories of why this is the case but it's probably a bit too political for Tumblr lol. Many individuals seem satisfactory as describing themselves as off the binary, or off the binary and slightly agender. Only 2% of queer individuals identify as just one binary gender. Essentially, multigendered-ness is very common, alongside identifying as non-binary.DISCLAIMER:It is not representative of the general populace, it is representative of individuals who are not solely cisgender binary (as according to the census description). For example, do not take this as "Wow, only 1.71% of the human population are just men!". Instead, take this as "Wow, only 1.71% of genderqueer individuals are just men!". CALCULATIONS:This is how I found these numbers.1. I copied the raw data from gender census form.
2. I created a filter that checked for any mention of man, woman, non-binary, agender, AND their variants such as guy, enby, genderless, etc. I removed any mentions of "Not man", "non woman", etc. as these anti- terms are too ambiguous to work with for this specific research. (thank you for existing, regex)
3. I simplified these terms into just woman, man, non-binary, or agender. I realise that some individuals identify as boys and not men specifically, but for the sake of this research - we're looking at the overall gender umbrella, not the specific language used.
4. I created a count for each possible combination of these four genders.
5. I divided each count out of the total results to get the percentage.---- P.S. Thanks to my Discord server members for helping me test out the concept with a smaller sample.151141
gendercensusAnonymous asked:Hi! What should I do if i/my alter goes by a name that is different depending on the language spoken? Like, it's a noun name and when we speak English, we translate the name.Should we only do that English version (since the questionnaire is in english) or should we submit both names?I think it's fine either way! :) Whatever you feel best represents you and your name is great for this survey.[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#meta120
gendercensusAnonymous asked:Just want you to know that I am very committed to Queer Science™️ and samples being representative of the broader populations, and so I just sent the link to the survey to my occupational therapist. I will also be forcing my psychologist to do it, which may be awkward, but sacrifices must be made for the greater good (working out how many people go by nature-themed nouns)Thank you for your extremely scientific attitude! Innovative scientific discovery requires this kind of boldness. May this bring you, your OT and your psychologist closer together as a group. <3[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#meta744
gendercensusRebloggedgendercensusFollowA quick and easy nonbinary name survey[ Click here to participate ]It's open until 19th July 2026, and it's open to anyone whose gender(s) (or lack thereof) defy the restrictive binary of male/female.Reblog for SCIENCE~~~See some incoming stats and links to help with promotion here.gendercensusWe're approaching 48 hours of name survey now, and I think we will probably hit 7,000 responses today.Here's some easy promotion links for other social networks, in case you're into that kind of thing:Bluesky: Click hereFediverse: Click hereFacebook: Click hereWhatsApp: Click hereTelegram: Click hereDiscord: Click hereReddit: Click hereInstagram: Click hereThreads: Click hereAnywhere else using this shortlink: https://forms.gle/t9CPGDNSfgpSdFXg9It is always really helpful when people share outside of Tumblr, because it makes the results about 0.4%^ closer to being representative of the general population of nonbinary people.Thank you everyone for your supportive reblogs and shares! QUEER SCIENCE WILL THANK YOU 🤩😎~^ Some statistics are fabricated.#survey#names#gender#nonbinary281,8581,408
gendercensusAnonymous asked:Are you planning to share the name survey responses (minus single responses)? Someone asking about specific analyses made me wonder if there'd be a chance for folks to do their own, although I know combinations of names might be hard to deidentify. I'm curious about trying to use some R functionality to look at similar spellings.Hello! Yeah I have already told people that the only thing I'm going to share is the list of names in order of popularity with unique names omitted, so it would be data-ly irresponsible of me to do anything else. Sorry about that.HOWEVER, if someone else wants to do a survey and is up-front about whether they'll be publishing the responses in full, I am happy to reblog![ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#meta330
gendercensusRebloggedgendercensusFollowA quick and easy nonbinary name survey[ Click here to participate ]It's open until 19th July 2026, and it's open to anyone whose gender(s) (or lack thereof) defy the restrictive binary of male/female.Reblog for SCIENCE~~~See some incoming stats and links to help with promotion here.gendercensusIt's been a little bit over one day, and there have been over 5,500 responses so far, entering almost 10,000 names!ALTI love that you can see how well the mailing list is coming along, with that huge jump in participation when I sent out the mailing list email. There are well over 13,000 subscribers now, and it is really vital for getting the word out to people who aren't social media superusers.The last name survey was 5,179 responses, so this is all going really well. :)As always, Tumblr are so good at this that we need shares everywhere else for a bit of balance, so if you are able to share this on Tumblr and especially elsewhere it will improve the data! There's a list of sharing links on the public incoming stats spreadsheet, but I'll paste it over here too:Bluesky: Click hereFediverse: Click hereFacebook: Click hereWhatsApp: Click hereTelegram: Click hereDiscord: Click hereReddit: Click hereInstagram: Click hereThreads: Click hereAnywhere else using this shortlink: https://forms.gle/t9CPGDNSfgpSdFXg9Thank you, lovely lot!#nonbinary#gender#names#survey281,8581,408
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gendercensusAnonymous asked:if i use one of the names my mum would've given me if i was a cis guy but then decided to use it for myself does that count as someone chosing it for me within a year of my birth?I would say no. The fact that you say "would have given me if" suggests to me that it was not given to you.Having said that, I'm not your mum - do whatever feels right to you. :)[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#meta422
gendercensusAnonymous asked:When are you doing another census? Want to make sure I don’t miss it this year👀I don't know when, but the easiest way to make sure you don't miss it is probably to sign up to the mailing list. :)[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#meta321
gendercensusAnonymous asked:What should I answer to "Did someone choose this exact name for you within a year of your birth?" if I go by my legal middle name that was never intended to be my "primary" name? (This is something I decided as an adult, partially for gender reasons.)Choose "yes"![ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#meta423
gendercensusTo all the people suggesting I not use Google:My usual survey software went up from about £160 per year to over £4,000 per year so you're gonna have to bear with me.This is just a silly side-survey of no import so just don't do it if you don't like it.[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#meta#FAQ4768
gendercensusTo all the people sending me asks about whether and when I'm doing the annual Gender Census survey:Yes, and I don't know. 👍[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#meta#FAQ243
gendercensusakawestruck asked:Do you have a place/process for people to submit a question/topic for you to consider analysing the data for?For example, I'm very curious what % of people use the same first letter for multiple/all of their names. and if there's a large enough number what types of names they were. I'd expect a lot of birth name & name given by others to have the same first letter, because nicknames, but what about chosen names?(that is something I did myself when choosing a name, so it'd be interesting to see how common it might be)I don't have a formal process! Though, if in doubt, emailing hello@gendercensus.com is always reliable.[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#meta14
gendercensusAnonymous asked:I don't identify as nonbinary. Should I not have done the survey? It is true that, and I quote, "I don't really fit into just one of the two boxes of 'always, solely and completely a woman/girl' or 'always, solely and completely a man/boy'." But seeing it described as a survey to find out what names nonbinary people, specifically, use for themselves is making me realize that maybe I shouldn't have filled it out, because I'm not nonbinary. Sorry if I'm skewing your data.Yeah, you're totally welcome to participate. :)I have to avoid the word "nonbinary" in the big annual language survey, because it's a survey that is meant to be collecting data about the use of the word "nonbinary"! But for this name survey it's okay to use a quick catch-all. Nonbinary (being short for "everyone not described sufficiently by the M/F gender binary") is the most-used word when "nonbinary" isn't used in the marketing so I go with that. I assume that people who don't strictly identify as nonbinary but recognise that they're probably still invited will join in anyway, as you did.But yes, this name survey has the same criterion as the big annual survey: if you're not always, solely and completely a woman/girl or always, solely and completely a man/boy, you're in.[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#nonbinary#names#survey1841
gendercensusAnonymous asked:Question about the name survey, I'm plural and we each have a different name. Would you rather us submit a different survey each or use the multiple names option in the survey?It doesn't make any difference either way for this one really![ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#meta3341
gendercensusAnonymous asked:Hi! I have a question abt the name cenus that may be silly. I go by a nickname for my name in all respects except for filling out legal documents. There's several people in my life including close friends and family that I'm not even sure know my name outside of the nickname. I don't want to sumbit two responses as that would be facetious, but I was wondering if I should put my full first name, or the name that people actually call me? Thanks for all the hard work y'all do!I think the way I'd put it is: if you like a name for yourself and feel like it's "you", the survey wants to know about it. It doesn't matter if anyone else knows it, right? If it's your name then it's your name. :)[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#meta944
gendercensusAnonymous asked:If you went through a lot of names and still use different names for different genders, should you submit more than one survey response? I submitted the three most used names but I have more.As long as you're not submitting the same name more than once, I can't see any harm in taking the survey more than once. :)[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#meta17
gendercensusRebloggedgendercensusFollowWhen someone writes your name, how important is capitalising the first letter?My name is only correct when the first letter is uppercase/capitalised23.1%My name is only correct when the first letter is lowercase/not capitalised3.9%My name is correct whether the first letter is capitalised or not70.3%N/A (name is initials, name is FULLY UPPERCASE, name is lost behind sofa, etc)2.7%Final result from 1,651 votes[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]gendercensusWhen counting people's names, should I...Combine names with identical spelling, regardless of capitalisation85.5%Count Capitalised Names separately from lowercase names12%Other (replies welcome!)2.4%Final result from 948 votes#poll#capitalisation18111132
gendercensusWhen someone writes your name, how important is capitalising the first letter?My name is only correct when the first letter is uppercase/capitalised23.1%My name is only correct when the first letter is lowercase/not capitalised3.9%My name is correct whether the first letter is capitalised or not70.3%N/A (name is initials, name is FULLY UPPERCASE, name is lost behind sofa, etc)2.7%Final result from 1,651 votes[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#poll#capitalisation#grammar18111132
gendercensusAnonymous asked:Will you be altering the punctuation and capitalization of names after the survey has concluded? I personally don't capitalize my personal name but use my every day name with proper capitalization and filled out the survey as suchI will lowercase everything for easy counting, but depending on how many entries there are, there might not be much more I can reasonably do.It's a tricky decision because I do get that some people's names are capitalised and some aren't, and some are correct either way. As with all surveys that I fling at an entire subset of the population, I often have to accept that nuance will be lost when gathering broad statistical data.=lower(trim()) is a really convenient way to count all the names spelled the same way. If a small proportion of people going by a particular name prefer not to capitalise it, their names would otherwise be counted separately and they'd be further down the list. I don't know if they'd feel it was more representative to keep [Name] and [name] separate, or roll them all together. If only one person entered a name uncapitalised and it was counted separately, it would be omitted from the results altogether, even if it was an otherwise fairly popular name. Dilemma!Having said that, it's fairly easy to leave capitalisation as it is, so I might try it both ways and see if it radically changes much.Also, I should do a poll to find out how important capitalising or decapitalising a name is to people generally. (On it.)[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#meta#names#capitalisation128
gendercensusRebloggedgendercensusFollowA quick and easy nonbinary name survey[ Click here to participate ]It's open until 19th July 2026, and it's open to anyone whose gender(s) (or lack thereof) defy the restrictive binary of male/female.Reblog for SCIENCE~~~See some incoming stats and links to help with promotion here.gendercensus8 hours down and we're meandering towards 2,000 responses (and over 3,000 names) on this survey aimed at nonbinary people, about the given names and nicknames we like to go by. :)It's been getting about 2 responses per minute for the last couple of hours.#survey#nonbinary#names281,8581,408
gendercensusAnonymous asked:Hi! I'm trying to take the name survey but it won't accept my name. I go by my initial and include the period after it; the survey gives the error "One name only, please. Variations can be entered separately." even though I make sure there is no space and no additional name in the box. It only lets me progress if I remove the "." even though that's how I write my name. Isit possible to change that? Yeah okay, *grmblgrmbl*Full stops are now allowed in the name textboxes. I added it because people were putting punctuation after non-abbreviated names for some reason so I guess I will have to edit those entries afterwards! 😩[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#meta934
gendercensusRebloggedgendercensusFollowA quick and easy nonbinary name survey[ Click here to participate ]It's open until 19th July 2026, and it's open to anyone whose gender(s) (or lack thereof) defy the restrictive binary of male/female.Reblog for SCIENCE~~~See some incoming stats and links to help with promotion here.gendercensusIt's been about 4 hours and there have now been over 1,000 responses!Click here to participate in this quick survey about names for nonbinary people.#nonbinary#survey#gender#names281,8581,408
gendercensussaros-system asked:Greetings! Do we need to turn off our VPN to participate in the census or fill out the form? Or do we need to open it on PC? It doesn't open on mobile with the VPN on. Thanks in advance!I am afraid I have no knowledge on this topic! It's just a standard Google Form. I'm publishing it so that people who know more than me can contribute info.[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#meta5224
gendercensusbasaltpines asked:Hi, I am trying to participate in the name survey you posted but I cannot, as it does not accept my name ("B.") in the form, as it does not want to have punctuation in a name I believeThat was an attempt to make it so that people can't put something like "Sam." and have it be counted separately to "Sam". I am not sure what the best thing is to do about that. HMMMMMMM. I need to think about this a bit.[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#meta1527
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gendercensusbasilgrows asked:the name survey won't let me enter anything for this question, even a single letter u-u' something must be fudged in the validation logicYes, this was my fault - I was editing the survey while it was still open and I broke it, I'm really sorry! I should know better...If you were unable to participate, please try again. It should be working now. :)[ Click here to participate in the nonbinary name survey before 19th July 2026 ]#meta3059
gendercensusA quick and easy nonbinary name survey[ Click here to participate ]It's open until 19th July 2026, and it's open to anyone whose gender(s) (or lack thereof) defy the restrictive binary of male/female.Reblog for SCIENCE~~~See some incoming stats and links to help with promotion here.#nonbinary#gender#names#survey281,8581,408
gendercensusReblogged averixusdkettchenFollowI made a new flyer for my research project 📋LINK TO THE SURVEYThe survey will be open until at least the end of 2026 if not beyond. Only these 14 measurements are required, all the others are optional:If you have been on HRT for at least 3 years, have half an hour and a measuring tape, consider taking the survey! If you don't qualify or don't feel up to participating feel free to share it :)I will also be at various UK pride events this summer either walking around with a sign handing out flyers or having a stall where people can come get measured in person! Come say hi :)dkettchenPSA to read our documentation and FAQ if you have questions as they tend to already be covered in there :)#survey#not the gender census#super important though!!32,3132,530
gendercensusReblogged data-nerd-stuffshamebatsFollowIntersections 2.0: Key Findings on socio-economic inequalities experienced by LGBTI people in Europe | ILGA-EuropeIn 2023, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) conducted its third LGBTIQ survey, gathering responses from more than 100,00ILGA-Europe | Safety, equality and freedom for LGBTI people in Europe & Central AsiaIn 2023, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) conducted its third LGBTIQ survey, gathering responses from more than 100,000 LGBTIQ people across the 27 EU Member States, as well as Albania, North Macedonia, and Serbia. This landmark survey provides one of the most comprehensive datasets to date on the lived experiences of LGBTIQ people in Europe. shamebats"The findings of this analysis demonstrate that socio-economic inequalities among LGBTI people are deeply structured and unevenly distributed, with trans, non-binary and intersex individuals consistently facing the most adverse outcomes across employment, education and economic security. Experiences of discrimination, exclusion and financial precarity are not isolated phenomena but interconnected, reinforcing one another across different areas of life. Workplace hostility, limited openness, barriers in education and exposure to housing insecurity all contribute to cumulative disadvantage, particularly for those who also belong to other marginalised groups. A key insight emerging from the data is that avoiding openness about one's LGBTIQ identity is not a protective strategy, but rather an indicator of unsafe or exclusionary environments. Individuals who conceal their identity are not less exposed to harm; on the contrary, they often face higher risks of negative experiences, including discrimination and social isolation. This highlights how stigma operates structurally, shaping behaviour while simultaneously reproducing vulnerability. Environments perceived as hostile (whether schools or workplaces) drive concealment, which in turn is associated with poorer socio-economic and well-being outcomes. These findings have broader implications for policy and practice. They underline the need to move beyond individual-level interventions and instead address the structural conditions that produce inequality, including discriminatory norms, institutional barriers and insufficient legal protections. Creating inclusive and supportive environments in education, employment and housing is essential not only to enable openness, but also to reduce the socio-economic disparities that disproportionately affect the most marginalised within LGBTI communities."shamebatsThe way the yellow bars representing trans men just drop of completely after the age of 25 💔 shamebatsWhen it comes to employment status, gay men (59%) were the most likely to be in full-time paid work, and trans men the least likely (30%). Trans, non-binary and intersex respondents face a number of structural barriers, such as hiring discrimination, workplace stigma, and interruptions in their career paths (e.g. due to transition-related processes, or healthcare). Cis men are also less exposed to gender-based discrimination. All EU countries consider sexual orientation as protected grounds in employment, but only 15 include gender identity, and only nine include sex characteristicsTrans women (12%), intersex (10%) and non-binary persons (9%) were more than twice as likely to be unemployed than cis women and men (both 4%). shamebatsCountry context also plays a crucial role: when asked about being out at work, the responses vary depending on country. In Romania and Albania, 56% of respondents reported never revealing being LGBTI at their workplaces, the highest in the region. In contrast, only 17% of respondents in Denmark, and 19% in Spain and the Netherlands claimed to have never been out to people they meet at work. shamebats"Cis men are the most likely to be able to easily or fairly easily to make ends meet (38% in total), and they are the least likely to have difficulties (12%), closely followed by cis women.
By contrast, trans, non-binary and intersex respondents were significantly more likely to experience financial hardship. In particular, intersex people and trans women struggle the most making ends meet, 29% and 24% respectively, and they are the ones were respondents were most likely to report “great difficulties” when it came to making ends meet." shamebatsDue to fears of discrimination and violence from staff and other service users, LGBTI people are more likely to avoid traditional homeless shelters and services. This pushes people into taking risks with unsafe accommodation: trans men, trans women, and non-binary and intersex persons were much more likely to stay in a place not intended as a permanent home or sleep rough compared to the EU average of all respondents.
Compared to the reference profile, trans men were two times as likely, trans women four times as likely, non-binary persons three times as likely and intersex persons more than six times as likely to have slept rough.shamebatsWhen it comes the experiencing negative comments or behaviour at school, there is a stark difference among the subgroups. Cis women (35%) were the least likely to report such experiences, while 61% of trans men did.
More than half of cis men, intersex and non-binary persons reported the same.
Gay men (44%) and trans men (43%) experience being ridiculed, teased, insulted or threatened for being LGBTIQ by their peers the most. When it comes to being bullied by teachers or other staff, trans men are the most vulnerable (15%). Zooming in on trans respondents, we can see that those experiencing exclusion in gendered spaces or sports participation were significantly more likely to avoid expressing their gender.
In both cases, those who experienced school-related problems show around 12 % higher avoidance. These findings highlight that structural and social barriers in educational settings directly impact protective behaviours among trans respondents. The effect sizes are very similar for both bathrooms/changing rooms and sports, suggesting that each represents a sensitive, high-risk context for stigmatisation. #results#not gender census#resources3240283
gendercensusThere's a new zine in the Gender Census shop. :)"Put a Mouse in Their Pocket: Tips for pronoun fluency from non-trans people"20 sides of A6. £3 plus P&P from the UK.#zine#zines#handmade#queer#nonbinary#for sale#ad#coming out#pronouns39106
gendercensusRebloggeddata-nerd-stuffFollowThere's a survey on Australian LGBTIQA+ youth experiences going around. Figured I'd share it here! (Please share with anyone you know 14-21 and lives in Aus)."For more than 20 years, the In Our Words survey has shed light on LGBTIQA+ young people’s health and wellbeing in Australia. Last time, over 6000 LGBTIQA+ young people shared their stories, leading to real service and policy changes for the community.
In Our Words is now open and we want to hear from you! If you’re:
- 14-21 years old
- Lesbian, gay, bi+, trans, intersex, queer, ace/aro, or anywhere on the rainbow
Take part in this anonymous survey to help shape the future of LGBTIQA+ young people’s health and wellbeing in Australia.
👉 For more info visit: https://latrobearcshs.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8kN2NovmmlzaHhc Your voice, real change.
Ethics Refs: La Trobe - HEC25389, AIATSIS - REC-0603, WAAHEC - HREC1476"#australia#survey#LGBT#LGBTQ8872
gendercensusno-use-for-an-username asked:Hello, finally got around to reading this year's report (thanks as always!) and wanted to send a brief correction to some of the information about Spivak pronouns.Specifically, Michael Spivak's book "The Joy of Tex" was first published in 1982, though it was reprinted in 1990, and Michael did not coin the e/em/eir pronoun set, though his book did help popularize it. You can see some sources for this at the Spivak pronoun Wiktionary entry.Additionally, I'm curious where you heard that the set was generally capitalized as E/Em/Eir? Michael capitalized them in the Joy of Tex, but as far as I can tell this pattern hasn't stuck? Most hits I'm seeing for the set on Twitter (sorry) with the following search "e" "eir" lang:en -grokare lower case, such as this one with a photo of a published book.Please take care!Ahh, thank you for pointing this out! I've now fixed this in the report, and pointed the link to your more reliable source page.For capitalisation, I think this might require a dedicated mini-survey so that I know how to capitalise it in future checkbox lists. Perhaps I will just do a few social media polls first? Because if it's 100% capitalised or 100% uncapitalised on social media then I can maybe safely assume it'd be way more than 50% in the general population.I don't always get to it right away due to busy life things, but I always appreciate people sending in corrections, because I want my reports to be correct and reliable resources.Thank you again! :)#meta#corrections535
gendercensusRebloggeddata-nerd-stuffFollowGender Census 2025: Oceania SummaryWho? Everyone whose gender doesn’t tidily fit into the female/male binary. (Oceania participants isolated)
What? An online survey asking participants how they describe themselves and how they would like other people to refer to them.
When? July to August 2025.
Oceania Participants: 2,419
Worldwide Summary: https://www.gendercensus.com/results/2025-worldwide-summary/
Full Oceania Report: [GC2025] Analysis of Oceania’s results from the Gender Census Q1. Identity words
The Top 5 were:nonbinary: 58.8% (up 1.2%pt.)queer: 53.5% (up 1.9%pt.)trans: 44.5% (up 1.7%pt.)transgender: 40.1% (up 3.2%pt.)a person / human / [my name] / "I'm just me": 36.3% (down 1.0%pt.)
Q2. Titles
Titles (with name)
Here’s the top 5:No title at all: 38.2% (up 1.2%pt.)Mx: 19.7% (down 3.1%pt.)Mr: 10.8% (up 0.3%pt.)Non-gendered prof/acad.: 6.4% (up 0.5%pt.)Ms: 6.0% (down 0.7%pt.)
Titles (without name)
The top 5:No title at all: 70.0% (up 3.4%pt.)Friend: 31.3% (up 1.8%pt.)Sir: 28.9% (up 0.7%pt.)Comrade: 20.3% (down 0.4%pt.)Mx: 18.3% (down 2.0%pt.)
Q3. Pronouns
The top five pronouns (or lack thereof) are:They - they/them/their/theirs/themself: 76.9% (up 1.1%pt.)He - he/him/his/his/himself: 39.6% (down 0.9%pt.)She - she/her/her/hers/herself: 32.9% (down 4.3%pt.)It - it/it/its/its/itself: 21.1% (down 0.3%pt.)Avoid pronouns / use name as pronoun: 12.1% (down 0.9%pt.)
Q4. Family/relationship terms
Here’s the top 5:sibling: 81.6%sister: 26.7%brother: 26.1%family: 16.2%bro: 15.3%#GC2025#results#Oceania12474
gendercensusRebloggedgendercensusFollowSmartSurvey have changed their plans! Next year it's going to be EIGHT TIMES as expensive.Last month it was £70 per month for two months before VAT and non-profit discount (£151.20 per annual survey), and that gave me unlimited responses.Now, that plan has a 30,000 response limit. The next plan up is Business Teams, which can only be billed annually, and it's £1,080 per year before VAT (£1,296 after VAT), and it has a 75,000 response limit.I DO NOT LIKE ITgendercensusOH MY GOD, IT GOT WORSEThe plan we would need is now✨ £4,860 PER YEAR ✨(£4,500 before VAT, £5,400 after VAT, then £4,860 after applying the 10% off not-for-profit discount.)#meta2865195
gendercensusThere are two new items in the Gender Census shop:Asexual sparkly merino handwarmersBisexual sparkly merino handwarmersThese, plus many fidgets and a couple of trans-themed zines, are available for all your queer-made festive shopping needs. :D#trans#queer#handmade#LGBT#LGBTQ#LGBTQ+#bisexual#asexual#for sale#ad34110
gendercensusRebloggedgendercensusFollowPoll about ability to access gendercensus.comRemember when a bunch of people were unable to visit gendercensus.com or get to the survey via survey.gendercensus.com a few weeks back because their malware detectors were blocking the domain?What happens when you click the above gendercensus.com link now?It works now; during the survey I was malware-blocked1.3%It works now; during the survey it also worked and I wasn't blocked77%I get malware-blocked now; during the survey I was also malware-blocked0.1%I get malware-blocked now; during the survey it worked and I wasn't blocked0.8%It works now; I don't know/remember if it worked before20.7%I get malware-blocked now; I don't know/remember if it worked before0%Final result from 710 votes#meta#poll13249
gendercensusRebloggedgendercensusFollowPoll about ability to access gendercensus.comRemember when a bunch of people were unable to visit gendercensus.com or get to the survey via survey.gendercensus.com a few weeks back because their malware detectors were blocking the domain?What happens when you click the above gendercensus.com link now?It works now; during the survey I was malware-blocked1.3%It works now; during the survey it also worked and I wasn't blocked77%I get malware-blocked now; during the survey I was also malware-blocked0.1%I get malware-blocked now; during the survey it worked and I wasn't blocked0.8%It works now; I don't know/remember if it worked before20.7%I get malware-blocked now; I don't know/remember if it worked before0%Final result from 710 votes#meta#poll13249
gendercensusPoll about ability to access gendercensus.comRemember when a bunch of people were unable to visit gendercensus.com or get to the survey via survey.gendercensus.com a few weeks back because their malware detectors were blocking the domain?What happens when you click the above gendercensus.com link now?It works now; during the survey I was malware-blocked1.3%It works now; during the survey it also worked and I wasn't blocked77%I get malware-blocked now; during the survey I was also malware-blocked0.1%I get malware-blocked now; during the survey it worked and I wasn't blocked0.8%It works now; I don't know/remember if it worked before20.7%I get malware-blocked now; I don't know/remember if it worked before0%Final result from 710 votes#meta#poll13249
gendercensusRebloggedgendercensusFollowNew shop stockThere are two new additions to the Gender Census shop today - some grey sparkly handwarmers, and a nonbinary star fidget. (Plus, I added a pair of nonbinary handwarmers yesterday so those are back in stock now too.)shop.gendercensus.comgendercensusI've added a couple more today - an intersex star fidget and an asexual star fidget:#intersex#asexual#non-binary#non binary#nonbinary#handmade#LGBT#LGBTQ#LGBTQIA#for sale#ad1753
gendercensusNew shop stockThere are two new additions to the Gender Census shop today - some grey sparkly handwarmers, and a nonbinary star fidget. (Plus, I added a pair of nonbinary handwarmers yesterday so those are back in stock now too.)shop.gendercensus.com#nonbinary#fidgets#handmade#for sale#ad1753
gendercensusSmartSurvey have changed their plans! Next year it's going to be EIGHT TIMES as expensive.Last month it was £70 per month for two months before VAT and non-profit discount (£151.20 per annual survey), and that gave me unlimited responses.Now, that plan has a 30,000 response limit. The next plan up is Business Teams, which can only be billed annually, and it's £1,080 per year before VAT (£1,296 after VAT), and it has a 75,000 response limit.I DO NOT LIKE IT#meta2865195
gendercensusRebloggedcassolotlFollowUnscientific intersex, otherkin and plural statsI'm putting this on my personal blog (as opposed to the @gendercensus Tumblr or website) because it's not at all scientifically robust. My goal was to collect some data that, while not fully reliable, might at least point me in the right direction - and it did meet my needs.I wanted to find out more about three things:Are intersex people more likely than non-intersex people to be nonbinary (or otherwise not-just-men-or-women)?Do plural/multiple people and systems widely consider being plural/multiple/a system to be a gender identity in itself?Do otherkin people widely consider being otherkin to be a gender identity in itself?ContextThe wording of the gender identity question in the Gender Census very carefully avoids saying the word gender, to make sure that people who don't experience gender at all aren't immediately short-circuited into leaving the survey. It was guided by the EHRC's "Technical note: Measuring Gender Identity" (2012).Which of the following best describe(s) in English how you think of yourself?This intentionally open wording means that I can absolutely understand people responding in the textboxes with terms that refer to aspects of their identity that aren't gender-related, like white or Buddhist or adult. Even if 103% of participants said they were Jedi, I wouldn't add it to the checkbox list because it's not typically a term reflecting a gender identity/experience/presentation. The exception would be if it was clear from their textbox entries somehow that these words were gender-related for a significant proportion of respondents.Checkboxes are based on popularity within age groups. A few years ago in the Gender Census, enough people were typing in words like lesbian and dyke and queer, and specifying that they were intended as gender identities, that I started to consider them fair game for the checkbox list of identities.Alongside this, it has been common for participants to tell me to add intersex and plural and (to a lesser extent) otherkin to the identities checkbox list because being these things strongly affects their experience of their gender. This is fine, and my standard response would be to wait until these terms get entered frequently enough and then consider it. However, some went further and said that the majority of intersex/plural/otherkin people are nonbinary or that these are inherently gendered/gendering experiences, and I'm somehow missing that information and omitting these terms from the checkbox list inaccurately.It's pretty exhausting to respond to these people individually, for three reasons.I have an FAQ on the Gender Census website for this, but these people often insist that theirs is a special case because their identity is marginalised. (There is no precedent for me adding terms to the checkbox list due to their marginalisation so I don't know why people think that argument might work.)I ask for research to back up their claims. No one has ever provided any, sometimes saying that there is none, but they somehow know it's universally true.Even if somehow they were right and 100% of the people identifying this way considered it a gender, the percentages are still not high enough to get these terms into the checkbox list.So what I wanted was something, anything, that is more than zero information about the gender identities of the people in these groups, as independently of the nonbinary community as possible. I strongly suspect that there is no resource I could cite that would change their minds, but I will feel better knowing I did my due diligence in looking into it and I've got something to back up my instincts. Also, I like the idea of these people finding out that their experience isn't universal, you know?So, here's what I did and what I learned.Keep readinggendercensusTL;DR:I have yet to see any evidence that intersex is a term that is widely applied to gender identityI have yet to see any evidence that otherkin people widely consider otherkin to be a gender in and of itselfI have yet to see any evidence that plural/multiple people widely consider plural/multiple to be a gender (or genders) in and of itselfEven if any of them were widely considered to be genders, they are not popular enough to be on the checkbox listEven if any of them were widely considered to be genders, I haven't been presented with any compelling reason to bypass the usual checkbox selection system for these terms and add them to the checkbox list in spite of them not being popular enoughI have decided not to add these terms to the gender identity checkbox list of the Gender Census until both I see evidence that they are widely considered gender identities and they are popular enough to oust something else from the list.I will not reconsider this decision unless someone can present me with compelling supporting evidence that might shake this decision, such as a minimally biased quantitative survey report, with published info about its design and a larger sample size, showing that a clear majority of participants considers the term to reflect a gender identity. It doesn't have to be peer-reviewed, but "most of my friends are [identity adjective]" isn't going to cut it.#intersex#otherkin#plural#multiple#results1138132
gendercensusiamascaryhuman asked:hey, you mention in the summary that Magister was invented about a year ago, but its in at least 3 years of the data and multiple people mention it being a historical word with etymology back to the Latin Magisteras well as Magis coming from Latin for more which has also been present in a few years backthough the tumblr post does acknowledge this.pronunciation was suggested to be magebut personally I'd expect people reading Mg to say Mag or Maj anyways, thanks as always for this incredible projectThank you, I have updated the report to not say that that one viral post writer created Mg - just that its popularity is probably because that post went viral.[ 2025 report here // Shop here ]#meta#mg#mage1344
gendercensusRebloggedbearhatsFollowcrunched some numbers from the 2025 @gendercensus data for Finland. Identity words, pronouns (from checkboxes), and number of pronouns. This is 354 responses out of the 43,096 total, so it's uhhhhh. a pretty small set. I'm comparing percentage of finns to percentage of the whole set (finland included), but the results are hardly reliable w the sample sizes being so different LMAOStill. I was interested in the identity words and pronouns here, because Finland is NOT an english speaking country, but most finns speak english well, and we are disproportionally represented on the internet, based on population. and in this census, also. Finnish pronouns are also gender neutral. So, it's neat to see how finns describe their gender in a second language.Nonbinary is also the most popular choice for finns in this census.A larger % of finnish participants described their gender as "questioning/unknown", "a person/just me", and "none" compared to the % for all the responses. (Could be a trait for finns in general, or related to participants not having a translated identity word.)For pronouns, "They/them", "It/its" and "avoid pronouns" were chosen by a larger percentage of finns, compared to all the responses. She and he were less popular for finns, as well as most of the neopronouns. (harder to learn for a second language?) The equivalent of "it/its" is a common pronoun in casual spoken finnish :]Finnish participants were slightly likelier to choose under 3 pronoun sets than all participants, similar to the graph shape of participants under and over 30 yrs old.i did these pretty quick and didnt check too much so there could be mistakes. ok thats all byeee <3Gender Census 2025: Worldwide Report – Gender Censusgendercensus.comgendercensusThank you, love that you've done this! :D#GC2025#GC2025 Finland#Finland#results22476
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gendercensusQuery: Ad-sharing networks?Does anyone know of an ad-sharing system that's a bit like the old skool Project Wonderful or the newer, still active ComidAd network?I would really like to share the nerdiness of the Gender Census with the wider nerdy internet with some kind of benevolent ad system, but ComicAd is limited to creative and comic projects!#meta1415
gendercensusReblogged data-nerd-stuffgendercensusFollowdesmoscatghost asked:first of all I have just read the report and my god I am in awe. I don't know how you find the time or the energy but thank you.It goes without saying that you are trying your best to get an unbiased sample but do you have any idea how good the sample is? (either based on vibes or similar surveys that do not have to deal with self selection bias/ tumblr not being representative of the population and other such unavoidable problems)?gendercensus answered:first of all I have just read the report and my god I am in awe. I don't know how you find the time or the energy but thank you.Thank you for the support! :)It goes without saying that you are trying your best to get an unbiased sample but do you have any idea how good the sample is? (either based on vibes or similar surveys that do not have to deal with self selection bias/ tumblr not being representative of the population and other such unavoidable problems)?I think this might be a question that is impossible for me to answer! Sorry. :DIt's like asking if a particular song is a good song. Like, I dunno, it depends on what kind of song you want to listen to?If you want a big sample, this one is really good. If you need a sample that is not self-selected... With an online survey that is probably not possible, and with a non-survey study your sample will likely be a lot smaller and be very different in terms of methodology, so it'll have advantages and disadvantages of its own. And in all those other samples, unless they ask participants if they use Tumblr we have no way to compare to the Gender Census sample.Hopefully I expressed that well, I'm not sure how it's best to put it that's understandable![ The 2025 Gender Census report is now available ]gendercensusReblogging @data-nerd-stuff's really good tags!#I've been involved in some survey design stuff irl #and the topic of advertising and getting to people has come up #often the conversations always end up in the same place “there's no way to avoid bias but we will do our best” #someone once brought up that samples were biased by the kind of people who take surveys #as in we aren't hearing perspectives by people who usually wouldn't do a survey #and that one blew my mind #like shit there's really not much we can do about that #they also brought up a study? I think? that discussed that with cold call phone surveys #and yeah the kind of person answering their landline to talk to someone for however long is going to be a specific kind of person #I think sometimes this is why demographic data is so important #not just to isolate demographic responses but to see what kinds of bias the responses might have #I think honestly a really interesting identity language study could be done with anthropological? framework #I think anthropology is the one where you go into a community to study them while immersed #anyway #going out to as many queer events as possible and Talking to people about identity (and writing it down) #but that would still have bias because you literally cannot avoid it #it's why a broad number of studies from different perspectives and places and using different techniques makes better science #because we can study the differences and fill in those bias gaps #I will say in my opinion #the gender census has been doing a really great job encouraging a wide sample of different groups #I have certainly been putting in effort to reach new spaces every yearVery interesting thought about the anthropological approach! It might be very challenging to carry that out ethically, but also I think it would be very valuable in the qualitative department.My survey can never be the only science about us, we need lots of different types of research from a lot of different angles or we will never see the fullest possible picture.(Thank you for taking the time and energy to reach new spaces! It helps!)Edit: @dontbesoevil points out that it's not called anthropology, the methodology is called ethnography - thanks! :)#meta#methodology36103
gendercensusAnonymous asked:"There were 43,096 usable responses" I'm curious as to what this means? Like what makes a submission usable?Anything that doesn't have a compelling reason for me to remove it, basically! If it is apparently entered in earnest and doesn't contain any trolling or bigotry, it stays.[ The 2025 Gender Census report is now available ]#meta1045
gendercensusAnonymous asked:I've just come from reading the report and i was wondering, if you're adding demiboy because demigirl is on the list and they form a pair, does this not apply to fag and dyke? or are those words too significantly different to warrant the same approachA while back I did a quick "survey" on Twitter and asked what the opposites of those words were, and there were enough different answers that I concluded that they're not in a set together.[ The 2025 Gender Census full report is now available ]#meta#fag#dyke3248
gendercensusAnonymous asked:Hi! If I order from the shop, will the package have anything related to the gender census on it? I don't want the people I'm living with to knowNope! :) It'll just have a Royal Mail postage label on it with a return address, and the return address doesn't have "Gender Census" in it or anything like that.Actually, I'm very eco-conscious so there's a really good chance that I will be reusing some packaging, which means it may well have the logo of some other random business on it. 🥸[ The Gender Census Shop ]#meta232
gendercensusAnonymous asked:The gender census links are blocked by my college's wifi TvTIt keeps saying its a malicious website bruh I just wanna see the pride fidgits Ugh I'm so sorry, this has been going on for weeks and my webhost is being useless about it!!Basically someone else on my IP is doing some malware, and so malware detectors think I am too because I'm on the same IP. Me and @par-la-fenetre are going to do something to try to fix it but we haven't planned a specific day and time yet.I will post again when it's sorted though, so keep an eye on this blog.In the mean time...Asexual pass-through cone:Nonbinary pass-through cone:Asexual and nonbinary cog spinner:They are £7 each. And I will contact Andréa to make an appointment for sorting out the Stupid IP Thing of Doom!#nonbinary#asexual#fidgets#for sale640
gendercensusAnonymous asked:I think "nibling" gets chosen for "another child of your parents" as a portmanteau of "nonbinary sibling"Here's what Wiktionary says:Etymology
Blend of nephew or niece + sibling, coined by the American linguist Samuel Elmo Martin (1924–2009) in 1951.[1]The word nonbinary to refer to gender seems to have evolved around 2000 or so, which means nibling predates nonbinary by about 50 years!Edit: Hold on, my brain went too fast, I'll just slow down a bit. 🐌 Do you mean that people saw the gender-neutral word sibling, and wanted to make it nonbinary-gender-exclusive, and therefore nibling (nonbinary sibling) was created parallel to nibling (niece/nephew + sibling)?If so, can anyone chime in on this? I would love to know more! (E.g., did you come to nibling as "nonbinary sibling" before you knew about the word already meaning niece/nephew? Did you know about the niece/nephew version but just decided it should be used for "nonbinary sibling" instead? etc.)#nibling211862
gendercensusdesmoscatghost asked:first of all I have just read the report and my god I am in awe. I don't know how you find the time or the energy but thank you.It goes without saying that you are trying your best to get an unbiased sample but do you have any idea how good the sample is? (either based on vibes or similar surveys that do not have to deal with self selection bias/ tumblr not being representative of the population and other such unavoidable problems)?first of all I have just read the report and my god I am in awe. I don't know how you find the time or the energy but thank you.Thank you for the support! :)It goes without saying that you are trying your best to get an unbiased sample but do you have any idea how good the sample is? (either based on vibes or similar surveys that do not have to deal with self selection bias/ tumblr not being representative of the population and other such unavoidable problems)?I think this might be a question that is impossible for me to answer! Sorry. :DIt's like asking if a particular song is a good song. Like, I dunno, it depends on what kind of song you want to listen to?If you want a big sample, this one is really good. If you need a sample that is not self-selected... With an online survey that is probably not possible, and with a non-survey study your sample will likely be a lot smaller and be very different in terms of methodology, so it'll have advantages and disadvantages of its own. And in all those other samples, unless they ask participants if they use Tumblr we have no way to compare to the Gender Census sample.Hopefully I expressed that well, I'm not sure how it's best to put it that's understandable![ The 2025 Gender Census report is now available ]#meta#that's the diplomatic answer though#obviously you all are the BEST sample <336103
gendercensusReblogged liebelesbegendercensusFollowGender Census 2025: Worldwide SummaryWho? Everyone whose gender doesn’t tidily fit into the female/male binary.What? An online survey asking participants how they describe themselves and how they would like other people to refer to them.When? July to August 2025.Participants: 43,096The full report: click hereRaw data and summary tables: Google Sheets:Unprocessed responsesProcessed responses – warning, this will take a long time to load!2013-2025 trends~Identity wordsThe top 5 were:nonbinary: 61.7% (up 1.3%)queer: 56.1% (up 2.5%)trans: 46.5% (up 1.8%)transgender: 41.1% (up 2.3%)a person / human / [my name] / “I’m just me”: 39.7% (up 0.6%)~TitlesThe top 5 were:No title at all: 42.6% (up 0.4%)Mx: 14.7% (down 2.7%)Mr: 11.0% (down 0.3%)Non-gendered prof/acad.: 8.9% (down 0.3%)Ms: 5.6% (down 0.2%)~Formal address (sir/ma'am)Here’s the top 5:No title at all: 66.9% (up 2.0%)Friend: 35.9% (up 0.9%)Sir: 32.4% (down 0.8%)Comrade: 23.5% (down 0.6%)Mx: 18.1% (down 2.5%)~PronounsHere’s the top 5:They - they/them/their/theirs/themself: 75.0% (down 0.5%)He - he/him/his/his/himself: 40.6% (down 1.4%)She - she/her/her/hers/herself: 34.1% (down 1.9%)It - it/it/its/its/itself: 22.8% (up 2.5%)Avoid pronouns / use name as pronoun: 14.4% (up 0.5%)~Say thanks / Mailing list / Patreon gendercensusEmoji pronouns got a shout-out in 2020! I would actually really like to do some statistical investigation into emoji pronouns, but I am not sure how to do that. I need a Google Sheets formula that returns TRUE if a cell contains an emoji, basically. :D#emoji pronouns5290394
gendercensusGender Census 2025: Worldwide SummaryWho? Everyone whose gender doesn’t tidily fit into the female/male binary.What? An online survey asking participants how they describe themselves and how they would like other people to refer to them.When? July to August 2025.Participants: 43,096The full report: click hereRaw data and summary tables: Google Sheets:Unprocessed responsesProcessed responses – warning, this will take a long time to load!2013-2025 trends~Identity wordsThe top 5 were:nonbinary: 61.7% (up 1.3%)queer: 56.1% (up 2.5%)trans: 46.5% (up 1.8%)transgender: 41.1% (up 2.3%)a person / human / [my name] / “I’m just me”: 39.7% (up 0.6%)~TitlesThe top 5 were:No title at all: 42.6% (up 0.4%)Mx: 14.7% (down 2.7%)Mr: 11.0% (down 0.3%)Non-gendered prof/acad.: 8.9% (down 0.3%)Ms: 5.6% (down 0.2%)~Formal address (sir/ma'am)Here’s the top 5:No title at all: 66.9% (up 2.0%)Friend: 35.9% (up 0.9%)Sir: 32.4% (down 0.8%)Comrade: 23.5% (down 0.6%)Mx: 18.1% (down 2.5%)~PronounsHere’s the top 5:They - they/them/their/theirs/themself: 75.0% (down 0.5%)He - he/him/his/his/himself: 40.6% (down 1.4%)She - she/her/her/hers/herself: 34.1% (down 1.9%)It - it/it/its/its/itself: 22.8% (up 2.5%)Avoid pronouns / use name as pronoun: 14.4% (up 0.5%)~Say thanks / Mailing list / Patreon / Shop#GC2025#results#nonbinary#queer#LGBT#LGBTQ#pronouns#neopronouns5290394
