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 2019.
Participants: 11,242
The full report: click here
Raw data and summary tables: Google Sheets (10.6 MB)
Identity words
The top five were:
- nonbinary – 66.6% (up 6%)
- queer – 43.0% (up 40.1%)
- trans – 36.6% (up 1.8%)
- enby – 31.7% (up 7.2%)
- transgender – 30.4% (up 2.5%)
Titles
The top 5 were:
- No title at all – 33.0% (up 0.6%)
- Mx – 31.3% (down 1.3%)
- Mr – 8.7% (up 0.2%)
- Non-gendered prof/acad. – 5.5% (up 0.1%)
- Ms – 4.7% (down 1.0%)
Pronouns
Here’s the top 5:
- Singular they – they/them/their/theirs/themself – 79.5% (up 2.1%)
- He – he/him/his/his/himself – 30.8% (down 0.4%)
- She – she/her/her/hers/herself – 29.0% (down 1.9%)
- None/avoid pronouns – 10.3% (up 0.2%)
- Xe – xe/xem/xyr/xyrs/xemself – 7.2% (down 0.2%)
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2019-03-31
email: hello@gendercensus.com