Gender Census 2025: Worldwide Summary

Who? Everyone whose gender doesn’t tidily fit into the female/male binary.

What? An online survey asking participants how they describe themselves and how they would like other people to refer to them.

When? July to August 2025.

Participants: 43,096

The full report: click here

Raw data and summary tables: Google Sheets:

Identity words

The top 5 were:

  1. nonbinary: 61.7% (up 1.3%)
  2. queer: 56.1% (up 2.5%)
  3. trans: 46.5% (up 1.8%)
  4. transgender: 41.1% (up 2.3%)
  5. a person / human / [my name] / “I’m just me”: 39.7% (up 0.6%)
Bar graph. Title: Identity words (2025). nonbinary: 61.7%. queer (in relation to gender): 56.1%. trans: 46.5%. transgender: 41.1%. a person / human / [my name] / "I'm just me": 39.7%. gender non-conforming: 36.0%. genderqueer: 34.6%. enby: 30.1%. transmasculine: 27.7%. genderfluid/fluid gender: 24.4%. agender: 24.3%. fag: 19.6%. dyke: 14.2%. questioning or unknown: 12.1%. transfeminine: 11.7%. tranny: 11.3%. autigender: 5.5%. none / I do not describe myself: 4.5%. cisgender: 3.6%. binary: 1.6%.
See also the list of statistical results in Google Sheets here.
Titles

The top 5 were:

  1. No title at all: 42.6% (up 0.4%)
  2. Mx: 14.7% (down 2.7%)
  3. Mr: 11.0% (down 0.3%)
  4. Non-gendered professional, academic, religious, military or nobility title: 8.9% (down 0.3%)
  5. Ms: 5.6% (down 0.2%)
Pie chart. Title: Title (with name) popularity. Title (checkboxes), percentage of participants. no title at all: 42.6%. mx: 14.7%. mr: 11.0%. non-gendered professional, academic, religious, military or nobility title: 8.9%. ms: 5.6%. questioning or unknown: 4.3%. miss: 3.7%. a title not listed here: 3.4%. m: 2.7%. i choose my title on the day depending on how i'm feeling, even for long-term things like bank accounts: 2.1%. gendered professional, academic, religious, military or nobility title: 0.9%. [blank]: 0.0%.
View this pie chart here on Google Sheets, or the table of statistics here.
Formal address (sir/ma’am)

Here’s the top 5:

  1. No title at all: 66.9% (up 2.0%)
  2. Friend: 35.9% (up 0.9%)
  3. Sir: 32.4% (down 0.8%)
  4. Comrade: 23.5% (down 0.6%)
  5. Mx: 18.1% (down 2.5%)
Bar graph. Title: Title (without name) popularity. Title, percentage of all participants choosing that title. No title at all: 66.9%. Friend: 35.9%. Sir: 32.4%. Comrade: 23.5%. Mx: 18.1%. Miss: 15.0%. Ma'am: 12.5%. Questioning or unknown: 10.5%.
View the graph and the original data on Google Sheets.
Pronouns

Here’s the top 5:

  1. They – they/them/their/theirs/themself: 75.0% (down 0.5%)
  2. He – he/him/his/his/himself: 40.6% (down 1.4%)
  3. She – she/her/her/hers/herself: 34.1% (down 1.9%)
  4. It – it/it/its/its/itself: 22.8% (up 2.5%)
  5. Avoid pronouns / use name as pronoun: 14.4% (up 0.5%)
Bar graph. Title: Checkbox pronouns. They - they/them/their/theirs/themself (for referring to an individual, e.g. "they are a writer"): 75.0%. He - he/him/his/his/himself: 40.6%. She - she/her/her/hers/herself: 34.1%. It - it/it/its/its/itself: 22.8%. Avoid pronouns / use name as pronoun: 14.4%. Any: 14.2%. A pronoun set not listed here: 9.0%. Xe - xe/xem/xyr/xyrs/xemself: 8.8%. Fae - fae/faer/faer/faers/faeself: 6.2%. Ze/zir - ze/zir/zir/zirs/zirself: 5.7%. Questioning or unknown: 5.0%. Elverson - ey/em/eir/eirs/emself: 4.4%. Spivak - e/em/eir/eirs/emself: 3.9%. Star – star/star/stars/stars/starself: 3.5%. Thon – thon/thon/thons/thons/thonself: 2.0%.
View the bar graph here on Google Sheets, and the table of statistics here.

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2025-09-14

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