The 11th annual international Gender Census 2024 is now open until at least 13th June 2024!

https://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.

#gender #survey #LGBT #LGBTQ

Gender Census 2024

Please take a few minutes to take our survey.

@gendercensus

Did you mean to omit #intersex people ?

@jastity Anything in the checkbox lists is there because it was entered by enough participants, so if I've omitted something it wasn't a political choice, it was just statistics! If you want it to end up being a checkbox in the future, the best way is to invite intersex people to participate and remind them to type it into a text box. (Text box entries are counted and adjusted to account for typing-it-in negative bias.)
@gendercensus @jastity That sounds like a vicious cycle. Intersex people won't want to fill our your survey if you make them feel excluded. You should be putting in an effort to gather a representative sample by being explicitly inclusive. Otherwise past demographic statistics will continue to bias your data in a self-reinforcing loop.
@Grail @jastity How do you think someone in my position would choose which identity words relating to gender (or lack thereof) "should" be represented?
@gendercensus @jastity *You. I use capitalised neopronouns. Also I don't know because I gave up on the idea of categorising all genders in the world very quickly after I learned that xenogenders exist. I think there's a very serious risk that such efforts would have a detrimental effect on the nonbinary community, and I'm not sure anyone in the world is skilled and careful enough to do it in a way that doesn't end up contributing to truscum's narratives. So I'm just gonna offer feedback on problems, I don't have a grand vision of the "right" way to do something as dangerous as this.
@Grail @jastity Okay - then thank You for the feedback, and I will refer You to this section of the FAQs: https://www.gendercensus.com/faq/#add-my-words
Frequently Asked Questions – Gender Census

@gendercensus @jastity The FAQ says you include both words in a contrasting set even if one of them isn't popular. For example, you include cisgender because you have transgender. Since you have human as an option, according to this policy you ought to also have otherkin, even if very few people select it.

@Grail That option is there because if it isn't, people type things like that into the text boxes in order to reject gender labels and assert their selfhood over gender identity. The majority of the other checkboxes are gender labels, therefore the opposite is already represented.

One does not have to be human to select that option, because "/" means "or".

"Human" isn't a checkbox option on its own, therefore "otherkin" (supposing that is the objective "opposite" of human) doesn't need to be there.

@gendercensus So you're saying the rules on what options are included don't actually matter and you just put in whatever you feel like? And you didn't feel like putting in otherkin or intersex?