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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This graph shows genderflux alongside several terms that performed about as well in the Gender Census.
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#Butch #Demigirl #Demiboy #Genderflux #Gendervoid #Autigender
This ongoing thread can be read as an article on my blog, Meticulous Musings.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/12/genderfluid-genderflux-and-bigender.html
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#Blog #Writing #Analysis #Data #LGBT #Queer #Nonbinary #Trans #Transgender #Genderfluid #Bigender #Genderflux
Since 2015, bigender has appeared in the Gender Census nine times.
During that time, bigender reached its maximum of 5.7%, twice.
Bigender received 5.7% in both 2015, and the last time it appeared as a checkbox, in 2024.
Bigender’s minimum was 3.7% in 2019.
Since 2015, bigender’s average has been 4.7%.
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Bigender received 6.6% in 2013, more than it has received in any subsequent survey.
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This graph shows bigender alongside terms that performed similarly well in the Gender Census.
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#Butch #Demigirl #Genderflux #Demiboy #Gendervoid #Bigender #Autigender #Cisgender #Binary
I compared the performance of Bigender and None in the Gender Census in "A Close Look at the Nones."
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-close-look-at-nones.html
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Section: Genderfluid Family Tree
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Responses from the Gender Census can be used to determine the percent of respondents who chose one identity term, who also chose another identity term.
This pairing analysis can be used to better understand the relationships between identity terms in the survey.
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I first discussed my pairing analysis of the Gender Census in Agender, Genderless, and Gendervoid.
In that article, I also provided a step-by-step walkthrough of how I calculated my pairing analysis results.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/11/agender-genderless-and-gendervoid.html
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#Gender #Survey #Agender #Genderless #Gendervoid #Nonbinary #LGBT
In this section, we will use a pairing analysis to find terms that have a majority of respondents who identify as genderfluid.
These closely-related terms, which are majority genderfluid, are part of the genderfluid family tree.
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Genderfluid, genderflux, and bigender each appeared as a checkbox in the 2022 Gender Census.
Genderflux last appeared as a checkbox in 2022, and our pairing analysis will begin there.
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The following table shows the overlaps between genderfluid, genderflux, and bigender in the 2022 Gender Census.
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In 2022, 61.8% of genderflux respondents identified as genderfluid.
For comparison, only 24% of Gender Census respondents, as a whole, identified as genderfluid.
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In 2022, 49.7% of bigender respondents identified as genderfluid.
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Therefore, in 2022, a majority of genderflux respondents identified as genderfluid, and a near-majority of bigender respondents identified as genderfluid.
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Next, let’s examine the overlaps between genderfluid and bigender in 2024, the last time bigender appeared in the Gender Census.
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In 2024, 50.5% of bigender respondents identified as genderfluid.
For comparison, only 24.7% of Gender Census respondents, as a whole, identified as genderfluid.
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Conversely, 11.7% of Genderfluid respondents identified as bigender.
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Therefore, in 2024, a slight majority of bigender respondents identified as genderfluid.
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Both genderflux and bigender have had a majority of respondents who have identified as genderfluid in the Gender Census.
Therefore, I consider both genderflux and bigender to be terms that are closely related to genderfluid.
Taking these majority overlaps into account, I consider both genderflux and bigender to be part of the genderfluid family tree.
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Section: Genderfluid Pairing Analysis
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Now, let’s examine the relationships genderfluid, genderflux, and bigender have with other terms in the Gender Census.
We’ll begin this wider pairing analysis by examining genderfluid in the 2025 Gender Census.
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A total of 10,519 people selected genderfluid in 2025, representing 24.4% of Gender Census respondents.
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69.8% of genderfluid respondents identified as nonbinary.
65.5% of genderfluid respondents identified as queer.
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54.3% of genderfluid respondents identified as genderqueer.
51% of genderfluid respondents identified as gender non-conforming.
50.7% of genderfluid respondents identified as trans.
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Therefore, in 2025, majorities of genderfluid respondents identified as nonbinary, queer, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, and trans.
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45.8% of genderfluid respondents identified as transgender.
40.1% of genderfluid respondents selected, “a person / human / [my name] / ‘I’m just me.’ ”
Therefore, large minorities of genderfluid respondents identified as transgender and “a person…”
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This ongoing thread can be read as an article on my blog, Meticulous Musings.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/12/genderfluid-genderflux-and-bigender.html
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#Genderfluid #Genderflux #Bigender #Nonbinary #LGBT #Queer #Trans #Transgender
Section: Genderflux Pairing Analysis
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Next, let’s examine genderflux in the 2022 Gender Census, the most recent survey where it appeared as a checkbox.
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A total of 3,018 participants identified as genderflux in 2022, representing 7.6% of Gender Census respondents.
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71.8% of genderflux respondents identified as nonbinary.
67.1% of genderflux respondents identified as queer.
61.8% of genderflux respondents identified as genderfluid.
57.4% of genderflux respondents identified as genderqueer.
54.1% of genderflux respondents identified as gender non-conforming.
Therefore, majorities of genderflux respondents identified as nonbinary, queer, genderfluid, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming.
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Genderflux respondents were significantly more likely to identify as genderfluid and genderqueer, than Gender Census respondents as a whole, as you can see in the table above.
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49.3% of genderflux respondents identified as enbies.
47.9% of genderflux respondents identified as trans.
44.7% of genderflux respondents identified as transgender.
Therefore, large minorities of genderflux respondents identified as enbies, trans, and transgender.
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Section: Bigender Pairing Analysis
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Now, let’s turn to bigender in the 2024 Gender Census, the last time bigender appeared as a checkbox.
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A total of 2,781 participants selected bigender in 2024, representing 5.7% of Gender Census respondents.
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62% of bigender respondents identified as queer.
60.6% of bigender respondents identified as trans.
58% of bigender respondents identified as nonbinary.
57.2% of bigender respondents identified as transgender.
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51.1% of bigender respondents identified as gender non-conforming.
50.5% of bigender respondents identified as genderfluid.
50.4% of bigender respondents identified as genderqueer.
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Therefore, majorities of bigender respondents identified as queer, trans, nonbinary, transgender, gender non-conforming, genderfluid, and genderqueer.
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44.4% of bigender respondents identified as transmasculine.
Therefore, a large minority of bigender respondents identified as transmasculine.
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Bigender respondents were slightly less likely to identify as nonbinary, than Gender Census respondents as a whole.
Bigender respondents were significantly more likely to identify as genderfluid, than Gender Census respondents as a whole.
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This ongoing thread can be read as an article on my blog, Meticulous Musings.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/12/genderfluid-genderflux-and-bigender.html
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Section: Discussion
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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.
Genderfluid and bigender are identities held by people who would reply to the question by answering, “both.”
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Although, some genderfluid people are fluid between genders other than male and female.
And some bigender people identify with another set of two genders, other than male and female.
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Genderfluid has consistently received more than 20% in the Gender Census. It is currently the most common specific nonbinary identity, and the tenth most common term overall.
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Neither genderflux nor bigender has ever received more than 10% in the Gender Census.
Both of these terms are relatively rare, and fairly niche.
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Without data from the Gender Census, it might not be apparent just how much more common it is for people to identify as genderfluid than bigender.
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The Pairing Analysis results for genderflux are particularly interesting.
In 2022, 61.8% of genderflux respondents identified as genderfluid.
I consider any majority overlap greater than 60% to be particularly significant.
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Online, genderflux is often discussed alongside genderfluid, as well as binary gender terms such as boy, girl, man, and woman.
Boy, girl, man, and woman, each appeared as separate checkbox options in the 2022 Gender Census.
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There is quite a gap between how likely genderflux respondents are to identify as genderfluid, than as any of the binary terms, mentioned above, as we can see from a pairing analysis of the 2022 survey.
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Of the binary gender terms listed above, genderflux respondents were most likely to identify as boys.
In 2022, 25.6% of genderflux respondents selected “boy” in the Gender Census.
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Jason Beets
