Jason BeetsI published both "Gender Identity and Biological Sex" and "Nonbinary Nomenclature" in 2023.
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The following example offers a way to better understand some of the identities we have discussed so far.
Let's imagine someone asks, "Are you male or female?"
Remember, someone's gender and biological sex aren't the same thing, and they don't always align.
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If someone believes they can't honestly and accurately describe their gender with only one of these two options, they are nonbinary.
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Genderfluid is the most common identity among people who would reply to the question by answering, "both."
Although, some genderfluid people are fluid between genders other than male and female.
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Agender is the most common identity among people who would reply to the question by answering, "neither."
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We can also learn more about these identities by looking more closely at the data from the Gender Census.
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Last year, 5.2% of respondents identified as both genderfluid and agender.
There are many ways people might identify with both terms, but one of the simplest is that agender could be one of the genders someone is fluid between.
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Taking this overlap into account, 42.6% of respondents identify as genderfluid, agender, or both.
Therefore, a majority of respondents, 57.4%, don't identify as either genderfluid or agender.
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But considered together, genderfluid and agender (42.6%) would be the fourth most common term in the Gender Census, after trans (44.7%), and before "a person / human / [my name] / 'I'm Just Me' " (39.1%).
Put simply, many nonbinary people identify as genderfluid, agender, or both.
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This ongoing thread about the most common specific nonbinary identities, genderfluid and agender, can be read as an article on my blog, Meticulous Musings.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/04/genderfluid-and-agender.html
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#Genderfluid #Agender #Nonbinary #Trans #Transgender #LGBT #LGBTQ #Queer
Section: More Graphs
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Now that we’ve looked closely at the lines for genderfluid and agender, let’s return to a graph that appeared earlier in this series.
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This graph shows how the sixth through eleventh most popular identity terms from 2024 have performed over the past decade.
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#Genderqueer #Enby #Transmasculine #Transmasc #Genderfluid #Agender
You can see where the lines for enby and transmasculine surpassed the lines for genderfluid and agender.
You can also see that gender non-conforming and genderqueer have always outperformed genderfluid and agender.
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#Enby #Transmasculine #Transmasc #Genderqueer #Genderfluid #Agender
We have now discussed all eleven identity terms that received more than 20% in last year’s Gender Census.
These are also the only terms that have received more than 20% at any point from 2015 to the present.
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#Nonbinary #Queer #Trans #Human #Person #Transgender #Genderqueer #Enby #Transmasc #Transmasculine #Genderfluid #Agender
Next, let’s take a look at a really chaotic graph.
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This graph shows all of the terms that received between 20% and 50% in the Gender Census from 2015 to 2024.
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#Nonbinary #Queer #Trans #Transgender #Genderqueer #Enby #Transmasculine #Genderfluid #Agender
During this time, nonbinary has always received more than 50%, so its line can’t be seen.
Only part of the line for queer can be seen, before it surpassed 50% in 2022.
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This graph shows the interactions between the lines for many identities that can’t easily be seen in simpler graphs.
It’s especially useful for comparing how identities that have fallen in popularity over the past decade interact with identities that have risen in popularity.
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There are many places where identities are essentially tied, and places where lines cross paths.
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You can see how agender briefly surpassed trans in 2017.
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You can see how trans was the second most popular term in 2018, behind nonbinary, because genderqueer had declined, and queer hadn’t yet been added as a checkbox.
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You can also see where enby and transmasculine surpassed 20%.
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This ongoing thread about the most common nonbinary identities can be read as an article on my blog, Meticulous Musings.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/04/genderfluid-and-agender.html
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Section: Identities Worth Knowing
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There are a theoretically infinite number of nonbinary genders.
The Gender Census is an incredibly valuable tool that allows people to know which nonbinary identities are the most common.
And to a surprising degree, the most common nonbinary identities are fairly consistent, from year to year.
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There are times when a nonbinary person chooses to discuss their gender with a friend, family member, employer, or someone else.
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It would be greatly beneficial to everyone involved for the person learning this information to already be somewhat familiar with the terms and ideas that will be discussed during this conversation.
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Otherwise, the nonbinary person will be required to explain their identity terms, and the entire concept of nonbinary identity itself, to someone who has absolutely no idea what they are talking about.
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If you want to be an ally, it would be really helpful if you could learn about these ideas BEFORE you find yourself in a situation where you will need to know them.
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You don’t need to know every possible nonbinary identity someone might use, but you should be familiar with the ones that are most common.
These are the terms we have covered in this series thus far.
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In the years ahead, you will continue to hear conservative Republican politicians rally crowds of profoundly ignorant people by proclaiming, “there are only two genders.”
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On cue, these crowds will erupt into thunderous applause at the prospect of someone telling them they are wise for being so close minded.
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Many people, listening to this, will know the conservative politician is being a transphobic asshole, but for the life of them, they won’t know what those additional genders are.
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Because you read this series, you will know a lot more than that.
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The group of people disparaged by these remarks are nonbinary people, who have a gender identity that isn’t exclusively male or female.
About 1% of US adults are nonbinary.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/11/gender-identity-in-united-states.html
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The most common identities used by nonbinary people are umbrella terms, like queer, transgender, and genderqueer.
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Some people use nonbinary to describe their gender, without also using a more specific term.
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The most common specific nonbinary identities are genderfluid and agender.
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So not only will you know that the conservative politician is wrong, but why.
You will also know the basic facts about the ideas and identities they are looking to disparage and suppress.
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In addition to hearing these identity terms, you might also see the colorful pride flags associated with them.
The most common gender identity flags are the transgender, nonbinary, and genderfluid flags.
I discussed these flags in "Gender Identity and Biological Sex."
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/10/gender-identity-and-biological-sex.html
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#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Intersex #Genderqueer #Genderfluid
I discussed the most common sexual orientations, and their pride flags, in "Sexual and Romantic Orientations"
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/09/sexual-and-romantic-orientations.html
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#Gay #Lesbian #Bisexual #Pansexual #Asexual #Aromantic #AroAce
Section: Where Next?
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We have now discussed all eleven identity terms that received more than 20% in last year’s Gender Census.
These are also the only terms that received more than 20% at any point from 2015 to the present.
I recommend allies and the public become familiar with these most-common nonbinary identities.
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But we’re not done yet.
There are more fun, interesting, and useful identities further down the list.
I will cover the remaining checkbox identity terms from the 2024 Gender Census in the remaining articles in this series.
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So join me next time as we continue Season 3 of "LGBT by the Numbers."
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