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An annual survey of the language gender-divergent people use to describe ourselves. Results are made freely available in full. Website: https://www.gendercensus.com

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Jul 30

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Title: Gender Census 2025.

Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part.

Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 21d

Glad I could help! :)

Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 21d

There's lots of social media places to follow here: www.gendercensus.com/follow So you could pick the one that you're most reliable at checking and go with that. Some are postier than others!

Or, for very infrequent emails, the mailing list is probably a good bet: www.gendercensus.com/mailing-list

Follow – Gender Census

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Stevonnie (שולמית) @mxs510.bsky.social · 24d

"Patreon are going to force me off the “per creation” funding model in November, and I am undecided about how I’m going to handle that."

I am pleased to inform you that we've had a reprieve!

"As a result of the recent ruling...the November 2025 deadline is no longer in effect"

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 23d

Oh wow, that is fantastic!!!! Thanks, I am so glad to hear that! :)

Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 24d

The annual Gender Census report is now out for 2025.

The report of >43,000 responses details our identity words, titles, pronouns, and some family words.

The full report: www.gendercensus.com/results/2025...

The summary: www.gendercensus.com/2025-worldwi...

#LGBT #LGBTQ #pronouns #gender

Pie chart. Title: Title (with name) popularity.

Title (checkboxes), percentage of participants.
no title at all: 42.6%.
mx: 14.7%.
mr: 11.0%.
non-gendered professional, academic, religious, military or nobility title: 8.9%.
ms: 5.6%.
questioning or unknown: 4.3%.
miss: 3.7%.
a title not listed here: 3.4%.
m: 2.7%.
i choose my title on the day depending on how i'm feeling, even for long-term things like bank accounts: 2.1%.
gendered professional, academic, religious, military or nobility title: 0.9%.
[blank]: 0.0%.

Bar graph. Title: Checkbox pronouns.

They - they/them/their/theirs/themself (for referring to an individual, e.g. "they are a writer"): 75.0%.
He - he/him/his/his/himself: 40.6%.
She - she/her/her/hers/herself: 34.1%.
It - it/it/its/its/itself: 22.8%.
Avoid pronouns / use name as pronoun: 14.4%.
Any: 14.2%.
A pronoun set not listed here: 9.0%.
Xe - xe/xem/xyr/xyrs/xemself: 8.8%.
Fae - fae/faer/faer/faers/faeself: 6.2%.
Ze/zir - ze/zir/zir/zirs/zirself: 5.7%.
Questioning or unknown: 5.0%.
Elverson - ey/em/eir/eirs/emself: 4.4%.
Spivak - e/em/eir/eirs/emself: 3.9%.
Star – star/star/stars/stars/starself: 3.5%.
Thon – thon/thon/thons/thons/thonself: 2.0%.

Bar graph. Title: Title (without name) popularity.

Title, percentage of all participants choosing that title.
No title at all: 66.9%.
Friend: 35.9%.
Sir: 32.4%.
Comrade: 23.5%.
Mx: 18.1%.
Miss: 15.0%.
Ma'am: 12.5%.
Questioning or unknown: 10.5%.

Bar graph. Title: Identity words (2025).

nonbinary: 61.7%.
queer (in relation to gender): 56.1%.
trans: 46.5%.
transgender: 41.1%.
a person / human / [my name] / "I'm just me": 39.7%.
gender non-conforming: 36.0%.
genderqueer: 34.6%.
enby: 30.1%.
transmasculine: 27.7%.
genderfluid/fluid gender: 24.4%.
agender: 24.3%.
fag: 19.6%.
dyke: 14.2%.
questioning or unknown: 12.1%.
transfeminine: 11.7%.
tranny: 11.3%.
autigender: 5.5%.
none / I do not describe myself: 4.5%.
cisgender: 3.6%.
binary: 1.6%.

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 28d

Terms that people really want on the checkbox list: gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/7942510...

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 31

Thank you for the support! :)

Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 30

Haha, there's always one! There are some ways to get notified when it opens next year: www.gendercensus.com/follow

Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 30

You're very welcome!

Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thank you for the support! :) <3

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 30

The 2025 Gender Census is now closed!

There are 43,105 responses right now, though some may be removed if they're obvious abusive/troll entries that I haven't spotted yet.

I'm afraid I don't have much information about when the results will be up, but I'll keep you posted.

Thank you so much! :)

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 30

Shipping to the USA has been reinstated on the Gender Census shop! (Thank you @averixus.bsky.social for your help!)

shop.gendercensus.com

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 30

Less than 2 hours left and we just passed 43,000 responses!

survey.gendercensus.com

If your gender defies the binary, please do join in - and share with anyone you think might be into it [unless they are asleep because 1.5 hours is not very long].

#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #gender #survey #pride #GSM

Gender Census 2025

Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.

survey.gendercensus.com

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 30

There's about 12 hours left to participate in the Gender Census survey!

survey.gendercensus.com

If you've been trying to work out if the gender binary applies to you since the survey opened, this survey is *definitely* for you!

#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #gender #survey #pride #GSM

Gender Census 2025 closes at 11:59pm tonight! (UK time) survey.gendercensus.com. Illustration shows a Mars box and a Venus box, tumbling and upside down. A QR code is falling out of one box.

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 29

ONE DAY REMAINING

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Gender in blender? Go go go go GO!!!

#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GSM #gender #survey

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 29

ONE DAY REMAINING

survey.gendercensus.com

Gender in blender? Go go go go GO!!!

#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GSM #gender #survey

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 29

Mirror pronouns are a method of choosing pronouns, not pronouns in themselves, and so there is no question in the survey that covers it. If you would genuinely mirror any pronoun, you can choose "any pronouns" in the checkboxes. :)

Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 28

I put "screenshot of shop" as the alt text for the image, but I realise now (too late!!!) that I should have put "screenshop". 🤦

Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 28

Just quickly dropping in to mention that I have an online shop, which has trans-themed zines, LGBTQ+ handwarmers, and the beginnings of a range of pride flag fidgets:

shop.gendercensus.com

#trans #LGBTQ #pride #fidgets

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 28

There are only 2 days left to do this year's Gender Census survey:

survey.gendercensus.com

If your gender is neither here nor there, give it a look. It takes most people 5-6 minutes and isn't intrusive. There have now been over 42,000 responses!

#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #gender #survey #pride #GSM

Graph showing participation in 2023, 2024 and 2025. All lines rise sharply at the beginning and then the slope flattens a bit more after the first week and towards the end. The 2023 line ends at about 40,000. the 2024 line is much higher, ending at 48,000. 2025 is almost but not quite complete, and the line is a little higher than 2023 but a lot lower than 2024.

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 27

The next longest was 54 seconds though and that seems to be genuine!

Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 27

Upon further examination I have determined that the 33-second entry was fake so I have removed it. 😬

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 27

Three people and only three people completed the survey in a minute or less. One person took just 33 seconds, what??????

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Aug 27

The longest anyone has taken to complete the survey so far is 31,678 minutes (about 22 days) but it's not my fault. Some people are just extremely thoughtful, okay.

If you too are Extremely Thoughtful about your gender, check if you are the target audience for our survey: survey.gendercensus.com

Gender Census 2025

Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.

survey.gendercensus.com

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Persiflage @persiflage.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hey! If you're not part of the M/F binary, would you consider completing this very short Gender Census, please?
Open worldwide!
Ends on August 30th!
Ta muchly!

Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Jul 30

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