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 April 2020.
Participants: 24,576
The full report: click here
Raw data and summary tables: Google Sheets (7.3 MB)
Identity words
The top five were:
- nonbinary – 66.4% (down 0.2%)
- queer (partially or completely in relation to gender) – 42.9% (down 0.1%)
- trans – 33.7% (down 2.9%)
- enby – 31.5% (down 0.2%)
- gender non-conforming – 29.0% (up 2.8%)
Titles
The top 5 were:
- No title at all – 34.4% (up 1.4%)
- Mx – 28.0% (down 3.3%)
- Mr – 8.6% (down 0.1%)
- Non-gendered prof/acad. – 5.3% (down 0.2%)
- Ms – 4.9% (up 0.2%)
Pronouns
Here’s the top 5:
- Singular they – they/them/their/theirs/themself – 77.5% (down 2%)
- He – he/him/his/his/himself – 30.5% (down 0.3%)
- She – she/her/her/hers/herself – 29% (no change)
- None/avoid pronouns – 13.7% (up 3.4%)
- Xe – xe/xem/xyr/xyrs/xemself – 7.4% (up 0.2%)
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2020-11-03
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