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===USA subpopulations=== | ===USA subpopulations=== | ||
====People experiencing homelessness==== | |||
In a 2018 count, 0.2 percent of the USA homeless population (1,163 people) were nonbinary (where "nonbinary" was defined as "not male, female or transgender".)<ref name="NAEH">{{Cite web |title=Demographic Data Project: Gender Minorities |author=National Alliance to End Homelessness |date= |access-date=24 October 2020 |url= https://endhomelessness.org/demographic-data-project-gender-minorities/}}</ref> | In a 2018 count, 0.2 percent of the USA homeless population (1,163 people) were nonbinary (where "nonbinary" was defined as "not male, female or transgender".)<ref name="NAEH">{{Cite web |title=Demographic Data Project: Gender Minorities |author=National Alliance to End Homelessness |date= |access-date=24 October 2020 |url= https://endhomelessness.org/demographic-data-project-gender-minorities/}}</ref> | ||
====People 18 and older==== | |||
A 2017 GLAAD/Harris Poll survey of 2,037 Americans age 18 and over found the following:<ref name="GLAAD">{{Cite web |title=Accelerating Acceptance 2017 |author= |work=GLAAD |date=2017 |access-date=24 October 2020 |url= https://www.glaad.org/files/aa/2017_GLAAD_Accelerating_Acceptance.pdf|page=4}}</ref> | |||
*[[Agender]] people: | |||
**3% of 18-34 age group | |||
**less than 0.5% of 35-51 age group | |||
**less than 0.5% of 52-71 age group | |||
**1% of 72 or older age group | |||
*[[Genderfluid]] people: | |||
**3% of 18-34 age group | |||
**1% of 35-51 age group | |||
*People who were unsure of their gender/[[gender questioning]]: | |||
**2% of 18-34 age group | |||
**3% of 35-51 age group | |||
**2% of 52-71 age group | |||
**2% of 72 or older age group | |||
*[[Bigender]] people: | |||
**1% of 18-34 age group | |||
**Less than 0.5% of 35-51 age group | |||
**1% of 52-71 age group | |||
*[[Genderqueer]] people: | |||
**1% of 18-34 age group | |||
**1% of 35-51 age group | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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This page will ideally include information on the estimated numbers of nonbinary people worldwide as well as in specific regions. We also will try to have other demographic and statistical information when available.
Obtaining numbers of nonbinary people is difficult due to many factors such as:
- Many nonbinary people are not out or for another reason they are not comfortable reporting their gender identity on surveys.
- Most large-scale population counts only allow for binary gender selections.
- Depending on how the gender question is worded, nonbinary people may think it is asking for their legal gender or their sex assigned at birth.
Worldwide
More information needed.
In the 2020 Gender Census, there were 24,576 respondents.[1] However this is a limited set (e.g. mainly English-speaking people who use Tumblr and/or Twitter) and thus does not represent a full global count of people who identify outside the gender binary.
Australia
On the 2016 Australian Census, for the first time people could identify themselves as "male", "female", or "other". 1300 people selected "other".[2]
United Kingdom
According to a 2014 blog post by activist Nat Titman, "at least 0.4% of the UK population defines as nonbinary when given a 3-way choice in terms of female, male or another description", but the count will be higher depending on variations in question phrasing.[3]
USA
A large-scale survey of "transgender, trans, genderqueer, and non-binary" people was conducted in 2015: the United States Trans Survey (USTS). In total there were 27,715 respondents, 35% of whom (9,769 people) "indicated that their gender identity was best described as nonbinary or genderqueer." However, a greater number (13,353 people or 48%) answered "Yes" to the question "Do you identify as more than one gender or as no gender?"[4] This echoes Titman's finding above, that question phrasing will affect the reported number of nonbinary/genderqueer people.
The USTS included a list of gender terms allowing respondents to check off multiple selections, as well as the option to write in a gender that wasn't listed. From this section of the survey:[5]
- 31% of respondents checked "Non-binary"
- 29% of respondents checked "Genderqueer"
- 27% of respondents checked "Gender non-conforming or gender variant"
- 20% of respondents checked "Gender fluid/fluid"
- 18% of respondents checked "Androgynous"
- 14% of respondents checked "Agender"
- 7% of respondents checked "Two-spirit"
- 6% of respondents checked "Bi-gender"
- 5% of respondents checked "Butch"
- 4% of respondents checked "Multi-gender"
- 4% of respondents checked "Third gender"
- 3% of respondents checked "Intersex"
- 2% of respondents checked "Drag performer (king/queen)"
- 1% of respondents checked "A.G. or aggressive"
- 1% of respondents checked "Stud"
- 1% of respondents checked "Travesti"
- Less than 1% of respondents checked "Bulldagger"
- Less than 1% of respondents checked "Fa'afafine"
- Less than 1% of respondents checked "Mahu"
- and 12% of respondents wrote in a gender not listed by the survey
Extrapolated from the 2015 USTS, it was estimated that there could be over 450,000 nonbinary individuals in the United States of America[6], although totally accurate numbers are difficult to ascertain.[7]
USA subpopulations
People experiencing homelessness
In a 2018 count, 0.2 percent of the USA homeless population (1,163 people) were nonbinary (where "nonbinary" was defined as "not male, female or transgender".)[8]
People 18 and older
A 2017 GLAAD/Harris Poll survey of 2,037 Americans age 18 and over found the following:[9]
- Agender people:
- 3% of 18-34 age group
- less than 0.5% of 35-51 age group
- less than 0.5% of 52-71 age group
- 1% of 72 or older age group
- Genderfluid people:
- 3% of 18-34 age group
- 1% of 35-51 age group
- People who were unsure of their gender/gender questioning:
- 2% of 18-34 age group
- 3% of 35-51 age group
- 2% of 52-71 age group
- 2% of 72 or older age group
- Bigender people:
- 1% of 18-34 age group
- Less than 0.5% of 35-51 age group
- 1% of 52-71 age group
- Genderqueer people:
- 1% of 18-34 age group
- 1% of 35-51 age group
References
- ↑ Cassian (16 October 2020). "Gender Census 2020: The Pronoun Question". Gender Census. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
- ↑ Power, Shannon (28 June 2017). "Being gender non-binary on the Census, dyke is a dirty word and Ramadan fundraising". The Informer. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
- ↑ Titman, Nat (16 December 2014). "How many people in the United Kingdom are nonbinary?". Practical Androgyny. Retrieved 23 October 2020. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ↑ "2015 U.S. Transgender Survey Complete Report" (PDF). p. Appendix A. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
- ↑ "2015 U.S. Transgender Survey Complete Report" (PDF). p. 44. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
- ↑ Hendrick; et al. (1 January 2018). ""M," "F," Or "X"? Nonbinary Gender Designations In The Workplace". Fisher Phillips. Retrieved 19 June 2020. Explicit use of et al. in:
|author=(help) - ↑ Freeman, Lauren (2018). "Micro Interactions, Macro Harms: Some Thoughts on Improving Health Care for Transgender and Gender Nonbinary Folks". International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. doi:10.3138/ijfab.2018.05.29.
- ↑ National Alliance to End Homelessness. "Demographic Data Project: Gender Minorities". Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ↑ "Accelerating Acceptance 2017" (PDF). GLAAD. 2017. p. 4. Retrieved 24 October 2020.