Jason BeetsI have published the next article in "LGBT by the Numbers."
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It's been a while since I published the last article, so here is a bit of a refresher.
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I published the introduction to Season 3 of LGBT by the Numbers in October.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/10/lgbt-by-numbers-season-3.html
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The Gender Census is an annual online survey of people whose gender isn’t strictly male or female.
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I discussed the most common nonbinary identity terms during my analysis of the 2023 Gender Census.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/12/how-nonbinary-people-describe-themselves.html
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I discussed the results of this year's Gender Census in October.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/10/gender-census-2024.html
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With that context out of the way, let's proceed to my latest article.
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Between 2013 and 2015, the umbrella term preferred by a majority of people with a gender outside the binary appears to have changed from genderqueer to nonbinary.
Whether you believe that’s true depends on how much you trust the results of the pilot Gender Census from 2013.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-fight-for-first.html
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Genderqueer refers to someone whose gender identity or expression falls outside the boundaries of what is typically considered male or female.
Nonbinary refers to someone whose gender identity isn’t exclusively male or female.
These terms are similar, but not identical.
Some people with a binary gender identify as genderqueer because they engage in gender expression in nonconforming way, like tomboys and femboys do.
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Eleven years ago, Cassian administered the first Gender Census in 2013.
At the time, Barack Obama was president, and I was studying journalism at Kansas State University.
https://www.gendercensus.com/results/2013-worldwide/
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That year, on my blog, I wrote a series on Julian Assange, discussed revelations from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, and began covering the US military prison at Guantanamo.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2013/01/assanges-extradition-battle.html
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In the 2013 Gender Census, 58% of respondents identified as genderqueer.
Genderqueer was the only identity term that received more than 50% that year.
Nonbinary came in second with 39%.
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There was no Gender Census in 2014.
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Cassian administered the second Gender Census in 2015.
That year, Nonbinary took first place with 64%.
Genderqueer came in second with 41%.
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Cassian has administered a Gender Census every year since 2015, and Nonbinary has been the top identity term in the Gender Census since 2015.
Therefore, the most popular umbrella term for people with a gender outside the binary appears to have changed around 2014.
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This tentative conclusion appears plausible.
Kye Rowan, a nonbinary and intersex person, created the nonbinary flag in 2014.
It would make sense that this event coincided with the rise in popularity of the term.
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The genderqueer flag was created a few years earlier.
Marilyn Roxie, a genderqueer person, created the genderqueer flag in 2011.
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This ongoing thread can be read as an article on my blog, Meticulous Musings.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-fight-for-first.html
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There are a few reasons to treat the results of the 2013 survey with caution.
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Last year, Cassian described the 2013 survey as, “more of a pilot survey that informed a better survey in 2015.”
https://www.gendercensus.com/results/2023-worldwide/
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Fewer people responded to the survey in 2013 than any of the surveys that followed.
Only 2,061 people took part in the survey, compared to 2,901 in 2015.
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This graph shows the number of people who participated in the Gender Census over the years.
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Finally, here is a table containing the data used to create the graphs above.
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Nevertheless, 2,061 respondents is still a good size for a poll, even if it was surpassed by the number of people who completed the survey in subsequent years.
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This ongoing thread can be read as an article on my blog, Meticulous Musings.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-fight-for-first.html
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As far as I can tell, the data from the Gender Census appears to show a shift around 2014 when Nonbinary surpassed Genderqueer as the preferred umbrella term for people who don’t identify with a binary gender.
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It’s worth noting that even though genderqueer lost its top spot, it remains a popular term among nonbinary people.
Genderqueer received 33% in the 2024 Gender Census, making it the seventh most commonly chosen term in the survey.
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Only three identity terms have ever been chosen by more than 50% of respondents in the Gender Census.
Genderqueer received more than 50% in 2013.
Nonbinary has received more than 60% every year, beginning in 2015.
Queer has received more than 50% every year, beginning in 2022.
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The next article in this series will discuss another interesting result from the 2013 Gender Census.
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You can read this thread as an article on my blog, Meticulous Musings.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-fight-for-first.html
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