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Looking for a new crowdfunding system - know of anything suitable?

I'm exploring my options now that Patreon is phasing out their "per thing" model of crowdfunding. (They're switching everyone over to monthly payments, but my "per thing" is once per year, so monthly billing doesn't seem suitable for this project anymore.)

Does anyone know of another service online where I can have subscribers and take pledges repeatedly and on my own schedule?

What I would like to do is have people sign up to pay a pre-set amount of their choosing when I hit the big "pull in all donations now" button right before I do an annual survey, to cover my costs.

The alternative is to change my Patreon goal from however much it is annually to 1/12th of that monthly (ugh), or just crowdfund annually (mmmmmmaybe fine, but not as easy), or.... a secret fourth thing?

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Gender Census 2024: Oceania Summary

Who? Everyone whose gender doesn’t tidily fit into the female/male binary. (Oceania participants isolated) What? An online survey asking participants how they describe themselves and how they would like other people to refer to them. When? May to June 2024. Oceania Participants: 2,457 Worldwide Summary: https://www.gendercensus.com/results/2024-worldwide-summary/ Full Oceania Report: [GC2024] Analysis of Oceania’s results from the Gender Census

Q1. Identity words The Top 5 were:

nonbinary: 57.6% (down 1.7% from last year)

queer: 51.6% (down 1.2%)

trans: 42.8% (down 1.4%)

a person / human / [my name] / “I’m just me”: 37.3% (down 1.4%)

transgender: 37.0% (down 2.4%)

Q2. Titles Titles (with name) Here’s the top 5:

No title at all: 37.0% (up 2.6% from last year)

Mx: 22.8% (up 0.5%)

Mr: 10.5% (down 1.4%)

Ms: 6.7% (down 0.9%)

Miss: 6.7% (up 1.6%)

Titles (without name) The top 5:

No title at all: 66.5% (down 3.8%)

Friend: 29.5% (up 2.0%)

Sir: 28.2% (down 5.0%)

Comrade: 20.7% (new to the checkbox this year)

Mx: 20.3% (down 1.1%)

Q3. Pronouns The top five pronouns (or lack thereof) are:

They - they/them/their/theirs/themself: 75.7% (up 0.6% from last year)

He - he/him/his/his/himself: 40.5% (down 1.5%)

She - she/her/her/hers/herself: 37.2% (up 5.0%)

It - it/it/its/its/itself: 21.4% (up 1.5%)

Avoid pronouns / use name as pronoun: 13.0% (up 1.1%)

Q4. Family/relationship terms Here’s the top 5:

[nickname based on my first name]: 30.6%

[my first name]: 25.6%

Questioning or unknown: 22.1%

Mum: 21.2%

Dad: 21.1%

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Their crowdfunder got shut down for being in breach of JustGiving's terms of service. Their new crowdfunder (as linked from their homepage) is here:

picketing terf conferences is OUT, releasing 6000 live crickets into the audience of a terf conference and watching chaos erupt as everyone scrambles to evacuate is IN

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Dora Richter

Dora Rudolfine Richter/Dora Rudolfa Richterová (1892-1966) was the first known person to undergo a complete surgical transition. Born to a poor farming family, she was immediately noted to be feminine in her actions and dressed as a girl. In 1916, she was encouraged to go to Magnus Hirschfeld's medical practice.

Officially living as a man (and arrested multiple times for dressing as a woman), she worked at the Hirschfeld Institute for Sexual Research, and over 9 years had multiple surgeries, including being the first transgender woman to undergo vaginoplasty.

In May 1933, students attacked the Hirschfeld Institute and all records were burned. Richter, like many others, was presumed dead, but had successfully escaped to Czechoslovakia, and later Bavaria. She lived until the age of 74, where she was remembered as a sweet old woman who fed the birds and let them nest in her handbag.

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picketing terf conferences is OUT, releasing 6000 live crickets into the audience of a terf conference and watching chaos erupt as everyone scrambles to evacuate is IN

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hiya! i had a look on your shop website (and bought some buttons and a zine, very excited they look very cool!) and couldn't see anything, so I'm just wondering, how obvious is it from the outside of the packaging that the product is (for want of better phrasing) queer-related? Like, does it say 'gender census' on the outside, does the product description on any customs stuff mention anything? It doesn't concern me these days but it did used to, so I'm curious in case it would be useful info for somebody else

There's nothing on the outside of the parcel/envelope indicating queer/nonbinary anything, and on the customs labels I put un-detailed things like "booklet" and "gloves" and "buttons" - just to keep it really simple, because I feel like overseas customs people shouldn't be expected to know or care what a zine is!

It hadn't occurred to me that people might need postal packaging to be discrete, but it also hadn't occurred to me to put "Gender Census" or any branding on the outside of the parcel, so that's alright then. :)

(Thank you for buying the zine and buttons!)

[ The shop that we're talking about ]

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If you're like "oh wow I would totally buy some buttons if they were in the [gender/orientation] pride flag colours", please reply and say what your favourite flag is!

They were fun to make, and I still have more nonbinary buttons to package up but then I'll be able to make more in different colours.

New item in Gender Census shop

Buttons!

If they go down well, I might try some buttons in other pride flag colours too. :)

Click here to have a look at them in the Gender Census shop.

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New item in Gender Census shop

Buttons!

If they go down well, I might try some buttons in other pride flag colours too. :)

Click here to have a look at them in the Gender Census shop.

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New item in Gender Census shop

Buttons!

If they go down well, I might try some buttons in other pride flag colours too. :)

Click here to have a look at them in the Gender Census shop.

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Survey Results Dec 2023: Overview

The multigender survey was conducted to collect information about people who identify as multiple genders, or were questioning whether they identified as multiple genders. Over the course of a month, it received 743 responses. 

This summary of the results will cover

The gender labels that participants used

The number and fluidity of participants' genders

The pronouns and honorifics participants preferred

The types of gendered terms (man, woman, person, etc) participants preferred

The orientation labels that participants used

The use of multiple or combined orientation labels

The combination of orientation labels and gender labels that participants used

Other miscellaneous questions: Names, gender modality, intersex identity, plural identity

Written responses to "Share anything else about your multigender identity that you find relevant"

It is important to note that this survey link was posted on tumblr, so while these results may be representative of the tumblr multigender population, they are not representative of the multigender population as a whole.

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I apologise if this has been asked before, but with the 'multiplier method' for adding checkboxes, wouldn't it make more sense to use the geometric mean of the observed values rather than the arithmetic mean? It probably doesn't make all that much difference, but it might make a little

I have learned a little bit more about it, and learned that it's easy to do on Google Sheets (it's just =GEOMEAN()), so I've put it in the spreadsheet of multipliers to remind me to use that next year instead. :) Thank you!

[ Read the 2024 Gender Census results report here ]

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Hey Cassian!

I thoroughly enjoyed reading your report this year! Since following this project about 6 years ago I have become a maths student at uni and my love for stats has only grown. It brings me great joy to see stats about queer things every year :)

On your question about finding a term for “I’ll need to go check with my ____ first” I feel your pain. As a foster kid I was eternally searching for the correct term and I settled on “adult human” as in “I need to go check with my adult human” because it made me happy.

Have a lovely day!

Aw, I'm glad to hear that you're enjoying stats here and elsewhere! :)

As a foster kid I was eternally searching for the correct term and I settled on “adult human” as in “I need to go check with my adult human” because it made me happy.

This delights me. It also reminds me of a trip to my vet, where the vet was talking in gooey baby voice to my cat and was about to refer to me as my cat's ____________, and she turned to me and said, "should I say mama? dada?" And I said, "I usually just say 'human' - she's my cat, I'm her human."

[ Read the report on the 2024 Gender Census results here ]

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I'm curious if you noticed a drop in people entering multi-set entries this year. (Ie. entering a set that goes 'star/void/stars/voids/starself' instead of one for 'star' and one for 'void'.) That's the first thought I had when I saw the unwieldy question of doom - 'maybe this will reduce people's need to enter pre-alternating pronoun sets.' (I'm not sure it's because people were entering fewer overall, or your questions are improving, but the pronoun data looks a bit cleaner this year.)

I'm curious if you noticed a drop in people entering multi-set entries this year. (Ie. entering a set that goes 'star/void/stars/voids/starself' instead of one for 'star' and one for 'void'.)

Unfortunately, there's no way for me to automate looking for those, and it's way too much for me to sort through manually, so I do not know! I am sorry about that.

That's the first thought I had when I saw the unwieldy question of doom - 'maybe this will reduce people's need to enter pre-alternating pronoun sets.'

Very interesting thought!

I'm not sure it's because people were entering fewer overall, or your questions are improving, but the pronoun data looks a bit cleaner this year.

I didn't change the pronoun questions themselves at all this year, so I cannot take the credit - good work everyone! :D

[ Read the 2024 Gender Census results report here ]

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Gender Census 2024: 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? May to June 2024.

Participants: 48,645

The full report: click here

Raw data and summary tables: Google Sheets:

Unprocessed responses

Processed responses – warning, this will take a long time to load!

2013-2024 trends

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Identity words

The top five were:

nonbinary: 60.4% (down 2.7%)

queer: 53.6% (down 1.2%)

trans: 44.7% (down 2.0%)

a person / human / [my name] / "I'm just me": 39.1% (down 3.4%)

transgender: 38.8% (down 1.5%)

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Titles

The top 5 were:

No title at all: 42.2% (up 2.1%)

Mx: 17.4% (down 1.3%)

Mr: 11.3% (down 0.2%)

Non-gendered professional/academic title: 9.2% (down 0.2%)

Ms: 5.8% (up 0.3%)

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Pronouns

Here’s the top 5:

They – they/them/their/theirs/themself: 75.5% (up 1.0% on last year)

He – he/him/his/his/himself: 42.0% (down 0.5%)

She – she/her/her/hers/herself: 36.0% (up 3.3%)

It – it/it/its/its/itself: 20.3% (up 0.9%)

Avoid pronouns / use name as pronoun: 13.9% (up 0.7%)

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Edit log

2024-10-09: Corrected numbers in identity words top 5 list.

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Here's an exciting graph, to show that I am working on this year's Gender Census report. :D

This one shows that they/them popularity is moving at the speed of time - the popularity curve among age groups moves by about one year per year. This suggests that liking they/them is a sticky trend connected to age.

But also, older age groups are warming to it ahead of schedule - the appeal is spreading oldwards, but apparently not youngwards.

I am… not a statistician, linguist or sociologist of any kind, and I apologise to everyone for my extremely weird explanation.

Edit: By popular request of one person (@ophrys-apifera), a slightly different arrangement:

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After reconfiguring my life this week purely to focus on the Gender Census report, I'm happy to say I've done most of the spreadsheetery and about half of the report itself. I'm going to keep going over the weekend, as well.

I am very relieved! I don't like leaving a big gap between the end of the survey and the report coming out. I like to work on it while it's all fresh in my mind.

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Are you intersex?

It would be a great help if you were to take this 14 question survey about the sorts of terminology you prefer!

This survey will be posted in other locations and intersex forums, feel free to spread it yourselves, I am looking for 385 responses, from a wide array of intersex people from different backgrounds. I intend to use the results of this survey in an informational website I am working on with the help of other intersex folk! If you are not intersex, you can help out by reblogging!