Who? 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? February to March 2018.
Participants: 1,535
The full report: click here
Raw data and summary tables: Identity, titles, pronouns, and the original spreadsheet of all responses. (4.2 MB)
Identity words
The top five were:
- nonbinary – 57% (down 7.6%)
- trans – 34% (up 1.7%)
- transgender – 28% (up 1.8%)
- genderqueer – 28% (down 5.5%)
- agender – 23% (down 4.8%)
Click here for the chart in Google Sheets.
Titles
The top 5 were:
- Mx – 38.6% (up 1%)
- No title at all – 27.4% (up 0.2%)
- Mr – 8.1% (up 2.3%)
- Ms – 7.8% (up 4.7%)
- Miss – 5.5% (up 1.3%)
Click here for the chart in Google Sheets.
Pronouns
Here’s the top 5:
- Singular they – they/them/their/theirs/themself – 73.6% (down 4.9%)
- She – she/her/her/hers/herself – 31.7% (up 3.8%)
- He – he/him/his/his/himself – 26.9% (down 2.9%)
- Mix it up – 11.3% (down 0.6%)
- None/avoid pronouns – 9.9% (down 0.4%)
Click here for the chart in Google Sheets.
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2019-01-04
email: hello@gendercensus.com