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 2021.
Participants: 44,583
The full report: click here
Raw data and summary tables: Google Sheets:
Identity words
The top five were:
- nonbinary – 68.2% (up 1.8%)
- queer (partially or completely in relation to gender) – 48.0% (up 5.1%)
- enby – 37.0% (up 5.5%)
- trans – 33.5% (down 0.2%)
- gender non-conforming – 32.9% (up 3.9%)
Titles
The top 5 were:
- No title at all – 34.7% (up 0.3%)
- Mx – 24.7% (down 3.3%)
- Mr – 8.2% (down 0.4%)
- Non-gendered professional/academic title – 7.3% (up 2.0%)
- Ms – 4.9% (no change)
Pronouns
Here’s the top 5:
- Singular they – they/them/their/theirs/themself – 79.2% (up 1.7%)
- He – he/him/his/his/himself – 33.8% (up 3.3%)
- She – she/her/her/hers/herself – 31.7% (up 2.7%)
- None/avoid pronouns – 12.6% (down 1.1%)
- It – it/it/its/its/itself – 9.3% (up 3.7%)
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