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[UK only] TransActual's Trans Lives Survey 2024/25

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UK based trans people - we need your help (if you're over 18, sorry under 18s)! The Trans Lives Survey 2021 is very much due for an update. More than 700 of you helped us last time, we need at least that many people again to complete our survey for the 2024/25 version. Take the survey: https://tinyurl.com/TransLives24

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UK people, TransActual need you!

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Shipping update

In preparation for the new EU GPSR rules coming in on Friday, I have changed the Gender Census shop to disallow shipping to the EU and Northern Ireland.

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More on the incoming GPSR rules

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This is a poll for anyone of any "current" gender identity/experience, cis or trans, binary or not, who has done any kind of medical transition with the "target" of nonbinary gender embodiment.

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This is a poll for anyone of any "current" gender identity/experience, cis or trans, binary or not, who has done any kind of medical transition with the "target" of nonbinary gender embodiment.

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This is a poll for anyone of any "current" gender identity/experience, cis or trans, binary or not, who has done any kind of medical transition with the "target" of nonbinary gender embodiment.

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This is a poll for anyone of any "current" gender identity/experience, cis or trans, binary or not, who has done any kind of medical transition with the "target" of nonbinary gender embodiment.

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GPSR shipping changes

Ah,

BBC UK on upcoming GPSR changes

Additional helpful info from Folksy

It looks like I will have to stop selling to the EU and Northern Ireland on 13th December, because I can't afford* to hire a "responsible person" to be my safety representative in the EU.

* Relative to how much money I make in sales to the EU and NI, anyway!

So, if you live in the EU or NI and you've been eyeing up anything in the Gender Census shop - buy now, I think?

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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!)

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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.