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The 2025 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The 12th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 30th August 2025. It's for people whose genders (or lack thereof) defy or transcend the restrictive male/female binary.

It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.

We're about a third of the way through the survey month and there are an incredible 30,000 respondents internationally so far from word-of-mouth alone - but the majority are from the USA, referred by Tumblr, and/or under 30! Can you help get the word out to more people?

Here are some links to social media posts for easy sharing:

bluesky, facebook, instagram, threads, reddit, telegram, whatsapp, signal, discord, and the fediverse (mastodon etc)

The survey URL is https://survey.gendercensus.com and it's especially helpful if you can share it with your local LGBTQ+ support group(s) online or in person.

We also have some flyers / leaflets / tiny posters, which you can print out and stick up anywhere, and we have a press release pack with some helpful text and illustrations you can use freely.

Thank you so much everyone!

[ Link to survey ]

PS: I'm going to be queuing this to post several times a day for a few days to catch people in as many timezones as possible. To avoid spam, please blacklist this hashtag: #GC2025 promo

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I’ve been doing some field work in the forest at my job, and fuck, mosquitoes get such a bad rap but seeing them up close they’re just little ladies doing their own little thing!!! Where I live mosquitoes don’t carry diseases, but to avoid the itchy spots I wear long rubber boots, gloves, jacket and outdoor trousers, even a mosquito-netted hat, so the ladies can’t get their blood meal from me but they’ll come to me anyway to see if they might find a spot to strike. I’ll watch as a mosquito carefully hovers over my sleeve, checking a few spots, and when she lands for good she cleans out her wings with her backmost legs. They look so silly when they’re flying and they have their legs held so high! And I never really consciously realised that they hold their back legs in the air while standing. Why is that I wonder? And I love their long proboscis, their defining feature, their little long snoots, they are so easy to see in their silhouette. Truly the borzoi of insects, long legs, slender body, long head!

This is a post meant for appreciating insects, if you want to complain about mosquitoes literally talk to anyone you know except me

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Hilda by Duane Bryers

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Being a little too cold: brrrr i’m a little too cold !!!

Being a little too warm: i am going to kill the next person who makes eye contact with me.

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Happy disability pride month

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YESYESYESYES our friendship was meant to be

Happy disability pride month

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I love this website bc on any other site it’s like oh no what if I say something wrong and they don’t like me anymore but here I could say some shit like “fighting for my life on this toilet rn #shitsurvivor” and someone would respond in the tags with “#same bitch” and yeah that’s tumblr

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Don't talk to me, I'm in the zone right now

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genuinely believe that the best and funniest thing you can do in any story is send the characters to literal hell

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can you fucking imagine

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I open Tumblr. I post something that should be a diary entry. I close Tumblr. I open Tumblr after having it closed for 1.2 minutes. I reblog 176 posts in a row. I add tags of absolute gibberish to 7 of those. I close Tumblr. I open Tumblr I post yet another should-be diary entry. I close Tumblr. I open tu

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please god stop talking about diets and weight loss in front of kids. especially if those kids are girls. and especially if you’re someone those kids look up to. but really just stop talking about about diets and weight loss when children are in earshot at all. I promise you you’re doing far more harm than good.

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depression creature

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when drawing requires you to draw

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