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.

So far so good - about 1,000 responses per hour since it opened!

It's the evening of day 2 and there have been almost 18,000 responses. 🀯

https://survey.gendercensus.com

Give it a go if your gender is a bit [waves hands vaguely].

And share it with anyone you know whose gender might be a bit [waggles shoulders enigmatically]. Especially if they're over the age of 25!

Gender Census 2024

Please take a few minutes to take our survey.

Day 3, and almost 25,000 responses...

https://survey.gendercensus.com

Take part if the gender binary has failed you!

Gender Census 2024

Please take a few minutes to take our survey.

@gendercensus this terminology has sparked some good gender descriptions from me and friends. gender's a bit [low-key chaotic confused hand signs]
@caitelatte Aww I'm glad to hear it! :D Also hard agree!
It's about to hit 39,000, about two weeks ahead of schedule!

There have now been over 40,000 participants, in just two weeks.

You can see some participation statistics here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dl7Fs9toJqy9mD0T3mip4EZGGPs2nE3n5Kr4BqGM_UQ/edit

You can take part here: https://survey.gendercensus.com

We just topped 44,700 participants, which means we've broken the all-time record that was set in 2021! :O

You can see some participation statistics here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dl7Fs9toJqy9mD0T3mip4EZGGPs2nE3n5Kr4BqGM_UQ/edit

You can take part here: https://survey.gendercensus.com

#gender #survey #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

[GC2024] participation (public) - Google Drive

The big 2024 annual survey is now closed!

A big thank you to everyone who took part, and to everyone who helped get the word out to as many genderly-interesting people as possible - an epic, record-breaking year!

@gendercensus too much slurs :l maybe next year I can fill out the survey
@gendercensus I wld like to suggest maybe slurs go on a different page I wld skip without reading thank u
@SocksPls I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do that because it would inteoduce bias and mess with the statistics. There are content warnings on the questions that have slurs in the answers, so you can skip the entire question.

@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 @Grail

I think this policy won’t necessarily work for the intersex.

@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?

@gendercensus @Grail

I think I would be happier continuing the discussion in private.

@jastity I'm very happy for you to email me - the email address is [email protected] :)
@gendercensus The 8th option on the left in question 1, "a person / a human / [my name] / I'm just me", conflates personhood and humanity with selfhood. I think these three options should be separated out so as to gain better data on how many respondants are otherkin. Otherwise you will get both humans saying "Yes, I am a human", and otherkin saying "Yes, I am myself", and this may make the stats on humanity look artificially high.
@Grail The survey doesn't seek to verify the number of humans participating, only the gender words of participants, so that's fine.
@gendercensus Human is a gender word.
@gendercensus found my (pretty damn fluid) identity shifting partway through the test, sorry if it skews my results :X
@gendercensus I'm fiscally masculine but socially feminine.
@frigginglorious Does that mean that you get paid like 20% more than people feel like you should?
@gendercensus following to see the results. Power and strength to everyone finding their path ✊ you inspire me to find freedom in my own life