Gender Census 2025

I'll start by making it as clear as possible who's invited to take part.

According to one model of gender called the "gender binary", everyone fits tidily into one of these categories:

• Woman/girl - all the time, solely, and completely (may be cisgender or transgender for the purposes of this survey)
• Man/boy - all the time, solely, and completely (may be cisgender or transgender for the purposes of this survey)

This survey intends to collect information about everyone who DOESN'T fit into this system. Anyone who doesn't feel like they fit into one of these two boxes is invited to participate. There are no geographical restrictions.

If you hesitate or struggle to place yourself into just one of the two boxes, or if you know for sure that these boxes were not made for you, please do continue!

Helpful information:

• It is international and open to anyone, anywhere.
• The survey aims to collect information about the language we use to refer to ourselves when speaking English, which may include words from other languages or cultures.
• Most of the survey asks about four things: identity words, pronouns, titles, and relationship words.
• There is a feedback box at the end.
• Most people find that it takes 5 minutes or less.
• You can read the FAQs here.
• If you'd like to look at all of the pages of the survey without submitting any information, you can do so with this preview link.

As in previous years, I'll go over the data and then compile it into a report. I hope that the information can be used to inform choices, persuade authorities, and help us to feel less alone.

The survey opened on 30th July 2025 and closes on Saturday 30th August 2025 at the earliest. If the survey is still open, your responses will be counted.

If you want to be notified of the results and future annual surveys, please do click here to sign up to the mailing list.

And if you know someone who might be interested in taking part, share the URL of this page with them: survey.gendercensus.com

Thank you very much!

Cassian Lodge
Independent amateur researcher and spreadsheet enthusiast
Gender Census
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Privacy and security

I understand that information about your gender can be very sensitive and private information.

I do not collect or have access to your name or email address. If you have any doubt about the security of SmartSurvey or your own device or internet connection, please take whatever steps you feel are necessary to protect yourself and your information. For more information, see our page on data protection.

Your anonymised responses will be made publicly viewable. When I publish the final report I also provide a spreadsheet of all survey responses that anyone can download and use for their own study and analysis. People who view the spreadsheet will not be able to connect your response with an IP address, email address, name, or precise location. The only information they have is the answers you enter into the form, and the date and time you submitted the form.

If you close the survey partway through, your responses will still be collected, but they will not be included in the public final results and they will be deleted shortly after the survey closes.

If you'd like to look at all of the pages of the survey without submitting any information, you can do so with this preview link.