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hi there! i wanted to see if i could get your take on something as someone invested and versed in queer entomology. do you think that it/its as a personal preferred pronoun could be considered a neopronoun? ive seen it be argued that using it to refer to a living person is different than how it has been used in the past, justifying it being a “new” pronoun, but also seen it be argued that it is not as its existed for years and has regularly been used to denote that something doesnt have any ties to any gender which is similar to how its used currently. apologies if i phrased this oddly, english isnt my native language u_u

Yes, I think it could be considered a neopronoun, just because it's being used in a very different and new way. But it is up to the individual's interpretation, I'm not saying it's unambiguous.

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Something from my main for you to do while you wait for the 2025 big annual survey? >:)

Do you have a brain? Were you born in a hemisphere?

Please click here!!!

Open until at least Monday 14th April 2025.

And if you want to spy on some public statistics as the results come in, please click here.

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hello. for elon reasons i currently don’t feel great about the letter x being a universal alternative gender marker. makes me curious about which letter it could be replaced with. or if the majority would prefer entirely genderless id. does this sound like something you’d be interested in counting?

I don't currently have any plans to count a gender marker, because it varies depending on country, language, wildcard conventions, etc. It even varies within the UK depending on which institution you're talking to - and that's fine, they're usually recording subtly different information each time.

Musk doesn't own a letter, no matter how much he wants to make "fetch" happen. I'd say he can pry "X" from our cold, dead hands but we don't own it either. On the plus side, nonbinary people will outlive Elon Musk and we will definitely outlive the skip fire that is ex dot com.

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Hello! I’m a high school student who’s researching how different people experience and describe their gender identity, and I was hoping you might consider boosting my survey?

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNIvwmieRDkeTmc_smVtMfbw1T8HhdrjQMg0Q60kMAK_BnUw/viewform

If you need more information, feel free to ask. Thank you!

Go on then, why not. :)

Click here to participate.

@chronicmedisorder, if you decide to publish the results please throw a link my way so I can boost that as well!

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URGENT! Supporters needed to attend important and legally decisive court case for nonbinary people in London tomorrow morning (9:30am Tues 21st Jan)

Ryan Castellucci, who is challenging the UK government to follow its own rules and grant them a nonbinary gender recognition certificate, is in court tomorrow morning.

This is a huge case. Ryan has a really good case and good representation, and if Ryan wins then it would be a decisive and dramatic step in the direction of nonbinary rights in the UK.

Ryan is asking for supporters to attend tomorrow (Tuesday 21st Jan), at 9:30am. The location is Court 63 at The Royal Courts of Justice in Central London. (Search for CA-2024-000474 here.) Dress smartly, and behave quietly and respectfully.

If you can't attend, please consider reblogging this or sending it directly to anyone in London. (You should be able to watch a live stream here.) Please also consider donating to Ryan's crowdfunder.

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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.

Shop

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.