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: 11,278
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 – 60.6% (down 5.2%)
- trans – 34.8% (up 4.7%)
- genderqueer – 30.8% (down 3.5%)
- transgender – 27.9% (up 4%)
- agender – 26.1% (down 7%)
Titles
The top 5 were:
- Mx – 32.6% (up 3.0%)
- No title at all – 32.4% (up 1.6%)
- Mr – 8.5% (up 3.5%)
- Ms – 5.7% (up 2.9%)
- Non-gendered prof/acad. – 5.4% (down 10.6%)
Pronouns
Here’s the top 5:
- Singular they – they/them/their/theirs/themself – 77.4% (down 3.1%)
- He – he/him/his/his/himself – 31.2% (up 3.3%)
- She – she/her/her/hers/herself – 30.9% (up 1.7%)
- Mix it up – 13.8% (up 0.2%)
- None/avoid pronouns – 10.1% (down 0.6%)
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2018-10-15
email: hello@gendercensus.com