Our politics is often dominated by discussions about LGBT topics, where the voices of LGBT people, themselves, are often absent.
Our debates about LGBT policy often lack some of the most basic context, such as, "How many people are we even talking about?"
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As it becomes increasingly common for people to identify as LGBT, there is often little robust coverage of LGBT identities, and the lived experiences of LGBT people.
Over the past two years, I have thoroughly covered LGBT statistics, based on reliable data from well-conducted surveys.
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This thread will contain an article that defines identity terms, uses survey data to discuss how common these identities are, and provides links to videos where people who use those identities discuss what they mean to them.
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It took quite a while to create the graphs, write the article, and conduct the pairing analysis that allows readers to better understand the relationships between different identities.
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If you find this article useful, and want to help me create similar articles in the future, consider supporting me on Patreon.
https://www.patreon.com/cw/MeticulousMusings
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Today, we will define and discuss three related terms: genderfluid, genderflux, and bigender.
We will examine how each of these terms has performed in the Gender Census, an annual online global survey of people who have a gender that isn’t exclusively male or female.
We will also use a pairing analysis to learn more about these words, and how they relate to each other.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/12/genderfluid-genderflux-and-bigender.html
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#Genderfluid #Genderflux #Bigender #LGBT #Nonbinary #Trans #Queer #Transgender
Section: Definitions
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Remember, someone's gender and biological sex aren't the same thing, and they don't always align.
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Genderfluid describes someone whose gender changes over time.
Some genderfluid people have a strong perception of their gender at all times.
But many others do not.
Many genderfluid people have a gender that changes between male and female.
Others are fluid between other genders, such as female and nonbinary, or male and nonbinary.
Genderfluid people can be fluid between more than two genders, as well.
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Meticulous Musings has featured videos where genderfluid people discuss their experiences.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2015/12/non-binary-genders-beyond-male-and.html
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If you want to learn more, I encourage you to check them out.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/10/gender-identity-and-biological-sex.html
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Bigender refers to someone who identifies with two genders. A bigender person could experience these genders simultaneously, or be fluid between them.
Many bigender people are both male and female.
Other bigender people identify with another set of two genders, such as female and nonbinary, or male and nonbinary.
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If someone doesn’t specify what their underlying genders are, I generally assume someone who is genderfluid is fluid between male and female, and someone who is bigender is both male and female.
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A bigender person, who identifies as both a man and as a woman, discussed their experiences on YouTube.
They use the names Maya and Sebastian, depending on the gender they are at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYhwnEC38ww
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To be clear, this is a different person than the Sebastian, who is a Trans man, who I have previously discussed on Meticulous Musings.
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Genderflux refers to someone with a gender that varies in intensity over time.
Genderflux can be turned into the suffix “-flux” that can be added to create compound gender terms.
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If someone has a gender that is always male, but the intensity of how strongly they experience their male gender is different at different times, they could describe their gender as boyflux or manflux.
Alternatively, they could use two words to describe their gender by saying they are male and genderflux.
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If someone has a gender that is always female, but the intensity of how strongly they experience their female gender varies over time, they could describe themselves as girlflux or womanflux.
Alternatively, they could use two words to describe their gender by saying they are female and genderflux.
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Some genderflux people spend part of their time feeling agender, which is to say that at those times, they feel they don’t have a gender.
But that isn’t necessarily true for everyone who is genderflux.
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Some people describe themselves as both genderfluid and genderflux.
These terms can be combined together as either genderfluidflux or fluidflux.
Those who use both terms seek to convey that both their underlying gender, and the intensity of how strongly they experience their gender, changes over time.
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Xander, a trans guy who identifies as genderflux, discussed his experiences on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgPvXvMw7tI
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Section: Graphs
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This graph shows how genderfluid, genderflux, and bigender have performed in the Gender Census since 2015.
Genderfluid is the most common term, followed by genderflux, and bigender.
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You can click on the images in this thread to view larger versions of them.
The graphs in this thread were created using flourish, a website that allows users to create compelling visual aids.
https://flourish.studio/features/
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The 2013 Gender Census had fewer respondents than any subsequent survey, and Cassian, the administrator of the Gender Census, has 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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This article, and most others in this series, focus on the results from 2015 to the present, although data from 2013 will be referenced when relevant.
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This graph shows how genderfluid has performed in the Gender Census since 2015.
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In 2015, genderfluid received 31.2%, its maximum.
Genderfluid gradually fell each year until it reached its minimum of 21% in 2019.
Genderfluid then grew until it reached 25.5% in 2023, and it has declined each year since.
In 2025, genderfluid received 24.4%.
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From 2015 to 2025, genderfluid’s average has been 25.3%.
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The genderfluid checkbox in the Gender Census has changed subtly over time.
In 2013, it was, “fluid gender.”
There was no Gender Census in 2014.
From 2015-17, it was, “fluid gender / genderfluid.”
From 2018- 25, it has been, “genderfluid / fluid gender.”
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“Fluid gender” received 31.3% in 2013, which is only slightly more than the 31.2% its counterpart received in 2015.
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This graph shows genderfluid alongside several terms that perform similarly well in the Gender Census.
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#GNC #Genderquer #Enby #Transmasc #Transmasculine #Genderfluid #Agender #Nonbinary #Trans #Transgender #LGBT #Queer
Genderflux appeared as a checkbox in the Gender Census five times, from 2018 to 2022.
Genderflux debuted at 7.4% in 2018, before reaching its minimum of 6.2% in both 2019 and 2020.
Genderflux grew until it reached its maximum of 7.6% in 2022.
Genderflux’s average is 6.9%.
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