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Neopronouns and Neurodivergence
Question: Are you some form of neurodivergent?
Options: Yes (self diagnosed), Yes (professionally diagnosed), Unsure, No, and Other (fill in the blank)
Data below the cut.
15 participants (2.857%) are not neurodivergent.
88 participants (16.752%) are unsure.
Of those...
2 (2.723% of unsure participants) specified that they were mentally ill but unsure if they qualified as neurodivergent
3 (3.409% of unsure participants) specified that they were between unsure and self diagnosis.
421 participants (80.190%) are neurodivergent.
Of those...
200 (47.506% of neurodivergent participants) were diagnosed professionally.
196 (46.556% of neurodivergent participants) were self diagnosed.
19 (4.513% of neurodivergent participants) had some conditions self diagnosed and some professional.
5 (1.188% of neurodivergent participants) were in the process of getting diagnosed proffesionally.
1 (0.238% of neurodivergent participants) did not specify.
1 participant (0.190%) preferred not to answer.
Follow-up question: Do you think your neurodivergence is related to your perception of gender and/or pronoun preference?
Options: Yes, No, Unsure, I am neurotypical (N/A)
266 participants (50.7%) responded "yes."
194 participants (37%) responded "unsure."
50 participants (9.5%) responded "no."
15 participants (2.9%) responded "I am neurotypical."
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this is a survey and i'm very interested to see the results so please reblog after answering!
(also everything with two or more pronouns in one option is in any order of preference)
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monsterkissed · 9 months
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i can tell i am becoming an old and irritable bastard bc increasingly my response to any kind of post about anything that is discussing a trend, increase/decrease in a thing, any kind of statement about anything material is "do you have a graph?"
"fan creators are getting less engagement than they used to!" do you have a graph?
"romance novels are leading to teens getting into more abusive relationships!" according to which study?
"neopronouns are causing Real trans people to be denied healthcare!" any actual stats on that or...?
"actually people in [group of any kind] all believe-" oh you must at least have survey results to back that one up, right?
"back in the day everyone was-" source?
and honestly it has made my life materially worse because once you notice that people can and will say and uncritically repeat and boost things with just absolutely no evidence whatsoever it makes you want to chew on the human race like a wad of fruit tape
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starry-survey-hub · 6 months
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Xenogender Usage Survey Results
At long last, the results of the Xeno survey have been published! Out of about 160 entries, about 120 were usable! Some of these results will be varying as certain questions were optional.
Results under the cut, because this is a long post and includes graphics. Enjoy!
Q1. Do you have a main/primary gender identity?
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Q2. What is your main/primary gender identity (if yes)?
The top 5 most common 'main/primary' gender identities of respondents to this question were as follows: 5. Trans Man [4] 4. Genderfluid [4] 3. Agender [4] 2. Genderqueer [6] 1. Nonbinary [7]
See the full list of all 'main/primary' gender identities HERE.
Q3. What Xenogenders do you identify with/as?
As this was the BIG ONE, I encouraged folks to give their whole lists, no matter how long they may have been. The top 11 most common xenogender identities of respondents to this question were as follows:
11. Staticgender [x5] 10. Demongender [x5] 9. Chaosgender [x5] 8. Bungender [x5] 7. Xenogender (Standalone) [x6] 6. Glitchgender [x6] 5. Stargender [x7] 4. Pupgender [x7] 3. Autigender [x8] 2. Fictogender [x14] 1. Catgender [x19]
See the full list of all Xenogenders HERE. There are 1,346 genders on this list.
These results were particularly interesting to me, because despite the high amount of respondents, only 2 xenogenders went over 10 responses at all despite the massive overall number. Xenogenders are a very vast 'type' of gender with usually very personalized meanings.
Q4. Do you identify with any non-xenogender identities in addition to the xenogender identities you have?
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Q5. What non-xenogender identities do you have (if yes)?
The top 11 most common non-xenogender identities of respondents to this question were as follows:
11. Gendervoid [6] 10. Demigirl [6] 9. Male [7] 8. Boyflux [7] 7. Bigender [7] 6. Transgender [11] 5. Genderqueer [13] 4. Genderfluid [15] 3. Agender [21] 2. Transmasc [25] 1. Nonbinary [33]
See the full list of non-xenogenders HERE. I did include neogenders and "cusp" genders in these results. Maybe I'll do a survey on neogenders in the future...
Q6. When talking about your gender(s) ONLINE, do you put more emphasis on your xenogender or non-xenogender identities?
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Q7. When talking about your gender(s) OFFLINE/IRL, do you put more emphasis on your xenogender or non-xenogender identities?
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Q8. When thinking about your gender(s) PRIVATELY/PERSONALLY, do you put more emphasis on your xenogender or non-xenogender identities?
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The extreme variance in these charts is really interesting as well. I want to make this survey an annual thing, I'm curious to know if this will change at all over the years.
Q9. Do you use neopronouns? For the purposes of this survey, 'neopronouns' was defined as any pronoun that was not he/him, she/her, they/them, or a combo of them such as she/they.
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Q10. What type of neopronouns do you use (if yes)?
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Q11. Do you prefer if people refer to you with your neopronouns or your non-neopronoun pronouns?
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Q12. Do you have any additional comments about your xenogenders or neopronouns?
These will be held to the end of the survey as it is the longest section. Q13. Are you Neurodivergent?
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Q13. Do you feel as if your neurodivergence has an impact on your xenogender(s)?
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Q14. What types of neurodivergency do you have?
The top 5 most common neurodivergencies of respondents to this question were as follows:
5. C-PTSD [39] 4. ADHD [58] 3. Depression [63] 2. Anxiety [66] 1. Autism [93]
See the full list of neurodivergencies HERE.
I do think these results support my hypothesis that there is a strong intersection of neurodivergency, as well as specifically with autism.
That is the end of the results section! Below are participant comments. I removed comments that clarified on their personal identities or comments directed specifically to me. I found a lot of these very insightful, so even though this section is long, I do recommend reading through them. Thank you to everyone who participated!
COMMENTS ABOUT XENOGENDERS:
>> I believe that there is a huge problem in Xenos where the coiners end up deleting their blogs or presence online so it makes it impossible almost to trace back the gender, as well as there not being a well documented enough place for people to access info on Xenos. The best I found that is specifically only for Xenos is a Wikidot but it doesn't have a lot in terms of some genders imo. There's a weird sort of sense where genders and pronouns become their own lost media, and it's sad. I wish we had a way to properly catalog them as best we could but it's nigh impossible as MOGAI and Xenos were intended to be made where anything could be a Xeno (which is good!) but in the wake, double-coining happens and we lose the ones we did coin in the end. Sorry to ramble oops
>>I think the fact that im otherkin influences my gender identity in major wayss
>>I love my xenos and my genders and i think id like to talk more about it irl.
>>i identify as [gender, removed for privacy] privately and do not share it anywhere outside of my close group of friends. i also only identify with it with my own definition, as every one i've seen online includes concepts (aligning with masculinity/femininity, including european concepts such as royalty, etc) that i either feel uncomfortable with or feel defeat the entire purpose of a xenogender to begin with.
>>We identify the body as sushigender for this reason: Sushi comes in many different styles and fillings, but it's still sushi. Therefore, we can present however we want and it's still us. (It's basically putting a xenogender to describe unlabeled/not caring too much about labels)
>>i wish people (both queer & not) were more accepting that gender expression can be silly and you can have fun with it! sometimes labels are goofy. sometimes pronouns are silly. it doesn't make them any less valid. end the sillyphobia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>i barely attach my xenogenders to my actual gender and its mostly a representation of my entire identity , or some sort of fashion statement or something
>>Most of my xenogenders are private- I do not talk about them other than fairy and livia gender. This is because they are for me and not others, and most people do not need to know about them! :> however, though I will not admit this everywhere, my non-xenogender labels mostly only exist for other people. I am fairygender before I am trans, before I am bigender. I am liviagender before I am trans.
>>Sometimes I like to label, sometimes not, the xenogenders and other genders I identify with are all loose and fluid categories for me.
>>i only use xenogenders and neopronouns with other queer people.
>>i love love love the community this is so cool and i think everyone being able to express themselves is the most important thing in the world
>>I am satisfied with identifying with 'xenogender' as an umbrella term, rather than trying to find and list specific xenogenders I identify with. At least for now. Going to the effort of finding specific xenogenders has not been worth it to me so far.
>>Neurodivergence doesn't intersect with this as much as my alterhumanity does! I am a fairy and a pigeon. Neither has a concept of gender the way humans do. In an ideal world I would not have to fit myself into that system at all! Neurodivergence intersects because it intersects with everything. I am my brain. What it is is what I am. I can't run away from that.
COMMENTS ABOUT NEOPRONOUNS:
>>Most people don't use the neopronouns so it feels wrong to say I prefer them, sense they're never used
>>Honestly I only use my neos with close friends I'm sometimes public abt it but I'm too afraid of backlash sometimes
>>i sort of prefer folks to use my neopronouns purely as a result of most people NOT using them. if people actually used them equally, i would not feel that need to even things out.
>>We do notice people only using the first pronouns you list and ignoring the others (using exclusively she/her when the pronouns are she/they/xe/gem)
>>No one uses them and it makes me really dysphoria but I feel I can't enforce it because there so weird
COMMENTS ABOUT THE INTERSECTION OF NEURODIVERGENCY AND XENOGENDERS:
>>I do genuinely believe a lot of the xenogenders I have are related very specifically to my autism and how I perceive things around me, especially the sound / music related ones.
>>A lot of my overlap comes from perceiving the world around me differently, including my genders and the fluidity of my identity. I feel closer to sounds, concepts, objects, feelings, etc., than I do "typical" and "traditional" gender identities. I understand things more closely and easily in abstracts and metaphors when it comes to my own feelings, so things like "boy" and "girl" don't make much sense to me as a personal experience.
>>Autism affects that indirectly by being a major reason for my alterhumanity
>>My autism effects how I identify myself more than anything most of my xenogenders have to do with my special interests or stuff I feel like due to my autism
>>i have more genders than "usual" because of my multiplicity
>>The intersection most prominently comes from the autism. Being autistic has heavily impacted how I view my role in society and is influenced by a lot of that + my interests
>>autism is the Big one, because it makes me see and literally feel my gender differently to an allistic person. and OSDD-1b affects it only because it's a weird experience being transfem in an afab body, so my gender experience is quite different to singlets who are transfem
>>i think i likely would still experience xenogenders if i was neurotypical, but the fact that i am neurodivergent makes me experience them much more intensely
>>My dissociative disorder (OSDD) and autism majorly effect the way I view gender. It's almost entirely unimportant to me and I see it as more of a form of expression than anything and don't understand why so much stock is put into gender.
>>considering how alienated and disconnected i am from my identity and everyone else, i feel that using xenogenders that feel unclear or 'strange' gives me a sense of identity. i enjoy coming off as strange or offputting to others and like using queerness and nonconformity to express that.
>>my nonhumanity and my aroaceness are a lot more relevant to my gender than my neurodivergencies are.
>>I am not sure if my neurodivergence affects my xenogenders or not, but I know that it affects my overall gender identity, and that is why I label myself as interestfluid.
>>my concept of gender is just weird
>>It’s definitely interesting how a neurodivergency can allow someone to view gender in so many different ways. As an Autistic person, I genuinely do not understand the binary and construct that society has laid out. This in turn affects how I try to conceptualize something that I honestly don’t think *can* be conceptualized. It’s so unique to each person
>>Our autism causes us to see gender from a different perspective so to say. And being a system, other alters also have other perspectives and preferences and identities
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superlinguo · 2 months
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Superlinguo 2023 in review
I spent 2023 on leave to hang out with a new tiny human. I still found time for some linguistics, including regular Lingthusiasm episodes and even some intermittent blogging. I also got to reuse all my linguist pregnancy announcement jokes.
Lingthusiasm
Lingthusiasm turned 7 this year! We celebrated with a dozen main episodes as well as our monthly bonus episodes for patrons. We had some help to get through the year while I was on leave with interviews with linguists from around the world, including Lingthusiasm team members Martha Tsutsi-Billins and Sara Dopierela.
We released our new Etymology isn't Destiny merch, which is available alongside merch for all kinds of linguists and language fans.
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Main episodes
Where language names come from and why they change (transcript)
How kids learn language in Singapore - Interview with Woon Fei Ting (transcript)
Bringing stories to life in Auslan - Interview with Gabrielle Hodge (transcript)
Tone and Intonation? Tone and Intonation! (transcript)
Word Magic (transcript)
The verbs had been being helped by auxiliaries (transcript)
Frogs, pears, and more staples from linguistics example sentences (transcript)
How kids learn Q’anjob’al and other Mayan languages - Interview with Pedro Mateo Pedro (transcript)
Look, it’s deixis, a word for linguistic pointing! (transcript)
Ergativity delights us (transcript)
Revival, reggaeton, and rejecting unicorns - Basque interview with Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez (transcript)
If I were an irrealis episode (transcript)
Bonus episodes
Parrots, art and what even is a word - deleted scenes from Kat Gupta, Lucy Maddox and Randall Munroe interviews
Singapore, New Zealand, and a favourite linguistics paper - 2023 Year Ahead Chat
When books speculate on the future of English
Neopronouns, gender-neutral vocab, and why linguistic gender even exists - Liveshow Q&A with Kirby Conrod
2022 Survey Results - kiki/bouba, synesthesia fomo, and pluralizing emoji
Linguistic jobs beyond academia
LingthusiASMR - The Harvard Sentences
How we make Lingthusiasm transcripts - Interview with Sarah Dopierala
Field Notes on linguistic fieldwork - Interview with Martha Tsutsui Billins
Postcards from linguistics summer camp
Linguistic Advice - Challenging grammar snobs, finding linguistic community, accents in singing, and more
Frak, smeg, and more swearing in fiction - Ex Urbe Ad Astra interview with Jo Walton and Ada Palmer
LingComm: 2023 conference
The 2023 LingComm conference happened in February, and was once again in the LingComm conference space in Gather Town. I enjoyed being on the planning committee that put together an amazing event that built on the inaugural conference in 2021. Stay tuned for 2024 lingcomm updates!
Top Superlinguo posts in 2022
This year was a chance to reflect on the decade since I graduated, and to articulate the important role my main supervisor had in shaping my career.
After wrapping up the linguistics jobs interview series last year, this year was a chance to share some aggregated resources from 8 years and 80 interviews.
I also got to read a couple of great linguistics books for kids, keep up to date with linguistics podcasts, share some of my favourite linguistics books and check in on some things happening online.
General posts and reviews
10 years of a PhD
Barb Kelly
Gender Variations for Person in Suit Levitating Emoji - Emoji Proposal
Linguistics and Language Podcasts (2023 update)
Language Books for Kids: Highly Irregular, Arika Okrent & Sean O'Neill
Linguistics books for kids: Once Upon a Word - a Word-origin Dictionary, Jess Zafarris
Linguistics Jobs resources
Linguistics Jobs Interviews - directory of posts and resources
Linguistics Jobs resource set
Superlinguo Linguist Job Interviews full list
Linguistics education and its application in the workplace: An analysis of interviews with linguistics graduates (new publication in Language)
Information and advice
hapax legomenon and automated email replies
Lingthusiasm guide to pop linguistics books
Hello Grambank! A new typological database of 2,467 language varieties
What we can accomplish in 30 years of lingcomm: Opening keynote of #LingComm23
Australian Linguistic Society’s Accredited Linguist program
Academic articles in 2023
Although I was on leave, things that I was working on earlier made it through to publication. I like that there was one paper on lingcomm, one on gesture (including emoji!) and one on the linguistics job interviews, it feels like a nice mix of some of my current interests. Just a pity there wasn't a Tibeto-Burman paper in there!
Gawne, L. & A. Cabraal. 2023. Linguistics education and its application in the workplace: an analysis of interviews with linguistics graduates. Language, 99(1), e35-e57. [doi][Superlinguo post]
Freestone, P., J. Kruk & L. Gawne. forthcoming. From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture. Linguistic Vanguard, 9(3), 257-266. [doi][Superlinguo post]
Gawne, L., & McCulloch, G. (2023). ‘Communicating about linguistics using lingcomm-driven evidence: Lingthusiasm podcast as a case study’, Language and Linguistics Compass, 17/5: e12499. DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12499 [doi][Superlinguo post]
The year ahead
I'll be back to work full time. I've found the low-key level of blogging I managed this year to be sustainable, so expect it to be business-as-usual here. Lingthusiasm will also continue with monthly main and bonus episodes, thanks to the patrons who support the show and ensure we have a team that can keep everything rolling while begin to take on more administrative responsibilities in my job.
I'm looking forward to sharing some things that are in the final stages of peer-review and copy editing, and I'm excited to be spinning up some new projects.
Browsing old Superlinguo content?
I have a welcome page on the blog that points you to aggregate posts, and series of posts I've done over the years, as well as themed collections of posts that have appeared on the blog in the last twelve years.
Previous years
Superlinguo 2022 in review
Superlinguo 2021 in review
Superlinguo 2020 in review
Superlinguo 2020 (2019 in review)
Superlinguo 2019 (2018 in review)
Superlinguo 2018 (2017 in review)
Superlinguo 2017 (2016 in review)
Superlinguo 2015 highlights
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gay-otlc · 2 years
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Tumblr KOTLC Fandom- Pronoun Demographics
From the survey @an-ungraeceful-swan and I made, here are the results of the question asking "What pronouns do you use?" Participants each wrote in an answer. There were 94 responses.
@tiergan-andrin-alenefar
Hypothesis: There will be more xe/xem users than he/him users
(note: 19 people used all pronouns, so 19 was added to the number of pronouns explicitly specified for each pronoun set)
(another note: all decimals are rounded to the tenths place)
In order of most commonly used pronouns, we have
they/them, at 61 total users (~64.9%)
she/her, at 58 total users (~61.7%)
he/him, at 37 total users (~39.4%)
xe/xem, at 31 total users (~33.0%)
ae/aer, at 30 total users (~31.9%)
fae/faer, at 27 total users (~28.7%)
it/its, at 26 total users (~27.7%)
ey/em, at 21 total users (~22.3%)
ze/hir, at 21 total users (~22.3%)
voi/void, at 20 total users (~21.3%)
cat/cats, at 20 total users (~21.3%)
sea/sear, at 20 total users (~21.3%)
lea/leaf, at 20 total users (~21.3%)
ve/ver, at 20 total users (~21.3%)
disc/discs, at 20 total users (~21.3%)
sil/ver, at 20 total users (~21.3%)
sol/sols, at 20 total users (~21.3%)
star/stars, at 20 total users (~21.3%)
hx/hxm, at 20 total users (~21.3%)
ar/son, at 20 total users (~21.3%)
cy/cyr, at 20 total users (~21.3%)
The data does not support the hypothesis. However, the data does not automatically reject the hypothesis.
Since he/him and xe/xem are the only proportions necessary for this hypothesis, confidence intervals have only been constructed for the two of them. I am 95% confident that the true proportion of he/him users in the KOTLC tumblr fandom is between 29.3% and 49.4%. I am also 95% confident that the true proportion of xe/xem users in the KOTLC tumblr fandom is between 23.3% and 42.7%.
Because of the overlap, there is no significant evidence that either set of pronouns has more users within the KOTLC tumblr fandom.
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gendercensus · 5 years
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Gender Census 2019 - The Full Report (Worldwide)
This is a long post! You can see a summary of the big three questions here.
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Hi and welcome to this year’s worldwide report based on the 11,242 responses to the Gender Census, which ran from 25th February until 30th March. It was mostly shared on Tumblr and Twitter, with some Reddit and Facebook and no doubt some one-to-one link-sharing too.
You can see the spreadsheet of results in full here, which might be helpful if you need to see graphs or figures in more detail. For the charts and graphs of statistics over time, the summary spreadsheet can be found here.
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Q1. IDENTITY WORDS
As in previous years, I asked: Which of the following best describe(s) in English how you think of yourself?
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Here’s the top 5:
nonbinary - 66.6% (up 6%)
queer - 43.0% (up 40.1%)
trans - 36.6% (up 1.8%)
enby - 31.7% (up 7.2%)
transgender - 30.4% (up 2.5%)
I put queer in bold because it’s new to the list, and the way it’s rocketed to second place is very unusual... and a little suspicious.
The wording of the identity question carefully avoids mentioning gender so that people without genders feel comfortable answering (or not answering), but it’s not really meant to include sexualities. The exception is sexualities that are part of someone’s gender identity, like this comment that someone wrote into the identity checkbox: “femme lesbian (sometimes i feel like lesbian *is* my gender)”
So anyway, last year queer got 2.9% (over the 1% threshold), and I personally know people who feel that their gender is queer, so I added it to the list. Usually when terms are added as checkbox options it might multiply their popularity by about four, but 43% is way too high to be explained by that. Queer is usually used to describe sexuality, so I think perhaps people who identify as queer in terms of their sexuality might have been selecting it too. I’m considering changing it slightly, to something like “queer (as gender identity)” to clarify it for next year. It’s possible that we won’t know if this percentage is due to bad survey design for a year or two.
(Edit: Some feedback on queer and my response to the feedback can be found here.)
Along those lines, several terms were added to the checkbox options this year because they were typed in by over 1% of participants last year:
queer
genderless
demiboy
demigirl
gender non-conforming
There are now 28 terms in the identity checkbox list, and as usual there were people expressing gratitude for the abundance of checkbox options in the identity question. However, there has also been an increase in people entering words into the textboxes that are already in the checkbox list. That means that people are missing or are not able to find the identity words they connect with more than last year, and it doesn’t help that the list is randomised to reduce primacy and recency bias.
Right now I add words to the checkbox list if they reach 1%, and this year for the first time I am considering adding another system for removing words that are not used as much. You can read a blog post I wrote about that here. I concluded based on the results of the 2017 survey (which asked for participants’ ages) that some words that seem to be used less overall are used more often by participants over 30, and since participants over 30 are underrepresented in online surveys generally I will be keeping any word that they enter over 3% of the time even if the word isn’t used as much overall.
Relatedly, I didn’t ask for ages in the survey this year, but I will be collecting information about age in future surveys to make sure that I don’t remove words and accidentally alienate underrepresented age groups. (The age question will be optional and will give age ranges rather than asking for an exact age, so hopefully that won’t make people feel too uncomfortable.)
This year someone complained for the first time that I was excluding words from other languages because I specify “in English” in the question, and if you know me from previous surveys you know that’s the opposite of my intention! Every word entered is counted, and I’m very aware that people use words from other languages while speaking English. So I’m considering rewording the question, but I welcome feedback on this since I’ve never had anyone complain about this issue before and plenty of people already enter non-English words.
And here’s this year’s top 10 words and their popularity over time:
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Those two lines shooting up from 2018 to 2019 are two of the words newly added this year: queer and gender non-conforming. That green line starting near the bottom in 2016 and steadily increasing over time is more like what I’d usually expect - that’s enby, which is now up to #4 on the list.
There are no new identity words to add next year; the closest to 1% was butch with 0.7%. However, since I intend to collect information about age and since people often type, for example, “girl but not woman, even though I am not a minor”, I will be splitting girl, woman, man and boy into separate checkboxes next year.
2,021 unique identity words/terms were typed into the “other” textbox, including 413 that were entered more than once. The average number of type-ins for people who actually typed words in was 1.8, and the average words per person overall was 5. Most entered 4 words:
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Q2: THE TITLE QUESTION
I asked, Supposing all title fields on forms were optional and write-your-own, what would you want yours to be in English? I also clarified that participants should be currently entitled to use it, so they should have a doctorate if they choose Dr, etc.
There were 5 specific titles to choose from, plus a few options like “I choose on the day” and “a non-gendered professional or academic title”. Participants could choose only one, with the goal of finding out what, when pressed, people enter on official records forms and ID.
Here’s our top 5:
No title at all - 33.0% (up 0.6%)
Mx - 31.3% (down 1.3%)
Mr - 8.7% (up 0.2%)
Non-gendered prof/acad. - 5.5% (up 0.1%)
Ms - 4.7% (down 1.0%)
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Here’s how that looks compared with previous years:
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Mx and no title switched places again for the fifth year in a row! And this year I made a similar graph but without Mx and no title. They always get way more than everything else, and it makes it really hard to see what’s going on in the lower half of the graph!
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That rollercoaster of a red line is because in 2018 I specified that “non-gendered professional/academic title” should be one that the participant should be entitled to use, which caused that significant drop.
The most popular five “other” textbox titles were:
M - 28 (0.2%)
Comrade - 17
Sir - 10
Mrs - 9
Ser - 7
As with last year, I invited people who chose “a standard title that is used only by people other than men and women” (2.5% of participants) to optionally suggest titles that they’d heard of. The goal is to find a popular title that is considered exclusive to nonbinary genders the way Mr is generally considered exclusive to men and Ms is to women.
243 people checked the “standard exclusive nonbinary” title option, and here’s everything entered more than once:
Mx - 16
M - 4
Xr - 2
Mrs - 2
Mx is generally considered gender-inclusive by people who are familiar with it, especially if their title is Mx, but it’s high on this list because Mx is very well-known generally. M in French is masculine, but in English it’s not gendered and I assume it’s pronounced “em”? (That seems to be what people have said in the notes, but please do tell me if I’m wrong!) It was also the most entered title in the “other” textbox. Xr is new to me, I’m not sure how it’s pronounced.
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Q3: PRONOUNS
The fourth question was actually a complex set of questions retained from last year, which started with Supposing all pronouns were accepted by everyone without question and were easy to learn, which pronouns are you happy for people to use for you in English? This was accompanied by a list of pre-written checkbox options. It included “a pronoun set not listed here”. and if you chose that it took you to a separate set of questions that let you enter up to five pronoun sets in detail.
As usual, everything that was a pre-written checkbox option got over 1%.
Here’s the top 5:
Singular they - they/them/their/theirs/themself - 79.5% (up 2.1%)
He - he/him/his/his/himself - 30.8% (down 0.4%)
She - she/her/her/hers/herself - 29.0% (down 1.9%)
None/avoid pronouns - 10.3% (up 0.2%)
Xe - xe/xem/xyr/xyrs/xemself - 7.2% (down 0.2%)
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Here’s how that looks over time:
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Because singular they, he and she always do better than everything else, let’s look at that chart without them. Every other specific pronoun set got under 8%.
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Here’s the top 5 textbox neopronouns, none of which got over 1%:
ne/nem/nemself (singular verbs) - 27 (0.2%)
ve/ver/verself (singular verbs) - 24
ey/em/emself (singular verbs) - 23
ae/aer/aerself (singular verbs) - 22
thon/thon/thonself (singular verbs) - 18
(I’m going by the subject, object and reflexive, because that seems like the best way to collect similar sets together - eyeballing it, the most variations occur in the possessives.)
Half of participants don’t like he or she, and 9% like neither he, she nor they. 695 unique sets of neopronouns were entered by 574 people, of which 84 were entered more than once. The average number of pronouns entered was 2.2, and most people (39%) were happy with one set.
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Overall it looks like there are no neopronouns really gaining in popularity, and even the checkbox neopronouns are being used less since 2015.
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THE QUESTIONS I ASK
What should the third gender option on forms be called? - Still no consensus, but nonbinary is at 2 in 3 people and it does seem to be gradually climbing.
Is there a standard neutral title yet? - Not yet. Mx is still consistently far more popular than all other titles, but just as many nonbinary people want no title at all. It’s really important that activists campaigning for greater acceptance of gender diversity remember to fight for titles to be optional, too.
Is there a pronoun that every nonbinary person is happy with? - No. The closest we have to a standard is singular they, and it’s important for journalists and anyone else with a style guide to allow it. It’s levelled out at about 1 in 5 not being into singular they, and 9% of us don’t like he, she or they pronouns.
Are any of the neopronouns gaining ground in a way that competes with singular they? - No. This year the closest is “Xe - xe/xem/xyr/xyrs/xemself” (7.2%, compared to singular they’s 79.5%). Users of these neopronouns will probably not reach consensus for many years - language and especially pronouns can be very slow to settle and gain ground. Even if one neopronoun does become very commonly used, many will continue to use other neopronouns for a long time to come.
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THIS YEAR IN REVIEW
Crowdfunding was successful enough that I have a little money leftover for costs next year. We had around the same number of participants as last year, but follower numbers and mailing list subscribers increased, which bodes well for next year.
I made some minor changes to the promotional illustrations to make them more gender-/sex-inclusive, and this year I got no complaints, so that was a good move! However, this year I did see a lot more confusion about who is invited to take part. I think the changes were probably worth it to make sure I’m being as welcoming and inclusive as I can be in the promotional stuff, so hopefully people will err on the side of caution and just jump in.
The way that the new survey software collects information, and my increased knowledge of Google Sheets, mean that I didn’t have to resort to MS Excel at all this year. This is really good, because working with unfamiliar software slows me down a lot! My formulae have been more efficient (thanks to my increasing Google Sheets skillz), so the entire sheet could be processed at once instead of being split into several questions. I’m really happy about that, because it means the entire worldwide results report came out less than 24 hours after the survey closed, instead of... *cough* eight months *cough* ...
I made an executive decision not to do a UK report this year, because the added complication makes it really hard for me to motivate myself. It definitely worked, look at that, it’s only March and the worldwide report is already out! I might still do a UK report, and I will keep collecting UK/not UK info about participants so that I always have that option, but for now I’ll just concentrate on the worldwide report and just do the UK report if I feel like it before 2020. And of course the spreadsheet is available to anyone who wants to download it and play with it, so if someone else wants to make some UK-specific statistics happen that is totally possible.
What I’ll do differently next year
In the identity question, I will keep queer as a checkbox option, but I will specify that it’s a gender. Maybe “queer (as gender identity)”? Feedback welcome on this!
In the pronouns question, I’ll change the wording of “none/avoid pronouns” so that it’s clear that it includes just using someone’s name. That’s because a lot of people tried to enter their names as neopronoun sets to express that, and I want to avoid people entering identifying information.
I will ask about age, to make sure that people over 30 are represented by checkbox options. Typically only about 10% of participants are over 30 so I want to make sure as many as possible are comfortable taking part. I’ll group ages into sets of 5 years (21-25, 26-30, etc.) to reduce risk of people being identified, and because entering an exact age probably feels a little more uncomfortable.
After 2020, any identity word, title or pronoun that is entered by less than 3% of participants and less than 3% of participants over 30 can be removed in future surveys. (I am a little concerned about this part, because it’ll make the work more complicated for me, and more work means more risk of epic procrastination. I’ll do my best!)
I’ve finally admitted to myself that I need to separate man and boy, and woman and girl. Currently it’s “woman (or girl if younger)” and “man (or boy if younger)”, and every year plenty of people skip those options in the checkboxes and type in “girl (but not woman even though I’m not a minor)” or something like that, and next year I’ll be asking about age so that’ll be an easy way to determine if there are any adults who are comfortable with one and not the other. This will increase the number of checkboxes to 30, which is pretty unwieldy and will make it harder yet again for people to find their words and increase the rate at which people drop out of the survey, so I’m glad for the under-3% checkbox removal threshold that I’m introducing from 2021 onwards.
Closing thoughts
I slipped up on a couple of things this year (ambiguity over the word “queer”, for example) - but overall I’m pretty impressed with how well I handled it all compared to last year. (I had recently moved house and was trying to rebuild my life, so I didn’t have a lot of spare energy in 2018!)
As always, I’m excited to pore through all your written answers and feedback, and I’m really grateful to everyone who shared the survey link! There were hundreds of RTs and thousands of reblogs, which never ceases to amaze me. Thank you everyone for sharing a small linguistic part of yourselves with me, I hope putting it all together helps you and makes a positive difference to the world!
See also
A list of links to all results, including UK and worldwide, and including previous years
The mailing list for being notified of next year’s survey
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SUPPORT ME!
I do this basically for free (the crowdfunded money goes entirely on survey software and domain fees), so if you happened to stumble onto my Amazon wishlist and accidentally fall on an Add To Cart button… well, I would be immensely grateful. ;) If you wanted to go and check out Starfriends.org too I reckon Andréa would be pretty chuffed!
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archived-and-moving · 2 years
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As if the neopronoun survey data isn't queer enough, I color coded results to make it rainbow
See this ^^^^ this is what I need to hear on a Sunday. *chef's kiss*
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Pronouns in the Danger Days Fandom
Results are from this survey, which received responses from 166 individual users.
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Over a third of the fandom uses exclusively they/them pronouns, and when combined with those who use a combination of they/them and other pronouns, the total is closer to half.
Those who use she/her or he/him, including those who use multiple pronouns, each make up about a quarter of the fandom, with slightly more using she/her than he/him.
Neopronoun users make up a much smaller amount, only about 2% of those who took the survey.
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Neopronouns would be great. Ze/hir/hir for sure. I know this one is controversial, but maybe consider... it. It/it/its. If you're unsure about usability of NB words, there's an annual nb survey (gendercensusdotcom) you can check the results of. As for binary pronoun NPCs, maybe refer to them as nb in narration. "There's that enby I know, he's great." Rip off the bandaid. No celebration, but clearly stated. Also there are honorifics like Ind. (individual) or Mx. "There's Ind. Smith, she's great."
I’ve known people who use it, I’ve never seen it as particularly controversial. I get where each side is coming from, I’m mostly inclined to just do what people tell me you know? And generally I go for “person”, I don’t like the word enby. I don’t know why? I think it’s one of those. It doesn’t look like a word that refers to anything to me. I don’t mind when people use it for themselves but like I’ve always been pretty :/ about it, as evidenced by the time I’ve taken to type out NB people all day lol. Honorifics is an interesting way to go for sure though, I’ll keep that one in mind.
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Xenogenders, Kintypes, and Interests
The survey asked about three factors that can inspire neopronouns; xenogenders, kintypes, and interests/hyperfixations.
Data below the cut.
Question: Do your neopronouns reflect your interests and/or hyperfixations?
Options: Yes, No
230 (43.810%) replied "No."
295 (56.190%) replied "Yes."
Question: If you identify with a xenogender(s), do you use pronouns based off of that xenogender?
Options, Yes, No, I don't identify with a xenogender, Other (fill in the blank)
211 (40.190%) used pronouns based off of their xenogender(s).
210 (40.000%) don't identify with a xenogender.
63 (12.000%) identify with a xenogender(s), but don't use pronouns based off of it.
22 (4.190%) use pronouns somewhat based on their xenogender(s), or change pronouns/genders.
19 (3.619%) are questioning whether they identify with a xenogender.
Question: If you identify as otherkin/therian, do you use pronouns based off of your kintype?
Options: Yes, No, I don't identify as otherkin/therian, Other (fill in the blank)
354 (67.429%) don't identify as otherkin/therian.
90 (17.143%) use pronouns based on their kintype.
61 (11.619%) identify as otherkin/therian but do not use pronouns based on this.
12 (2.286%) are unsure.
3 (0.571%) sometimes use pronouns based on their kintype.
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nlmgalaxy · 6 years
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Hi everybody! I made a survey in hopes of discovering which neopronouns are most popular, so I’d appreciate it if folks who use neopronouns could take a minute to fill it out! The results will help me update the educational materials in my school’s diversity center. If this survey doesn’t apply to you, feel free to reblog to boost! -Mod Pluto
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Neopronouns & Dysphoria
Question: Do he, she, or they pronouns give you gender dysphoria?
Options:
Yes, he/him makes me feel dysphoric
Yes, she/her makes me feel dysphoric
Yes, they/them makes me feel dysphoric
No, and I use one or more of those pronouns
No, but I still prefer not to use these pronouns because neopronouns give me more euphoria.
My feelings about one or more of those pronouns changes frequently.
Data below the cut.
77 (14.667%) felt dysphoria from he/him pronouns.
331 (63.048%) felt dysphoria from she/her pronouns.
76 (14.476%) felt dysphoria from they/them pronouns.
102 (19.429%) did not experience dysphoria and used one or more of these pronouns.
55 (53.921% of the 102) used she/her pronouns.
75 (73.529% of the 102) used they/them pronouns.
67 (65.686% of the 102) used he/him pronouns.
74 (14.095%) did not experience dysphoria, but preferred not to use these pronouns because neopronouns brought more euphoria.
207 (39.429%) had changing feelings about one or more of these pronouns.
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97.000% of survey respondents essentially went "societal norms? fuck that shit" and I love that for us.
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Neopronoun Use: Time And Consistency
This question is to determine how long each participant has used neopronouns, and whether the pronouns used have been the same over time.
Data below the cut.
Question: How long have you used neopronouns for?
Options: Less than one month, 1-6 months, six months to one year, 1-3 years, 3-5 years, 5-10 years, more than 10 years, unsure.
Note: Lengths of time provided are as of the time taking the survey. Participants have used pronouns for longer than their answer at the time of this post.
49 participants (9.333%) have used neopronouns for less than one months.
217 participants (41.333%) have used neopronouns for one to six months.
143 participants (27.238%) have used neopronouns for six months to one year.
64 participants (12.190%) have used neopronouns for one to three years.
12 participants (2.286%) have used neopronouns for three to five years.
2 participants (0.381%) have used neopronouns for five to ten years.
0 participants (0.000%) have used neopronouns for more than ten years.
38 participants (7.238%) are unsure how long they have been using neopronouns.
Question: Since you began using neopronouns, have you consistently used the same set(s) of pronouns?
Options: "No, not at all," "Yes," "I use the same pronouns, but I have added a set/sets," and "I use some of the same pronouns, but removed some."
91 participants (17.333%) answered "no, not at all."
70 participants (13.333%) answered "yes."
281 participants (53.524%) answered "I use the same pronouns, but I have added a set/sets."
83 participants (15.810%) answered "I use some of the same pronouns, but removed some."
Answers to "Since you began using neopronouns, have you consistently used the same set(s) of pronouns?" by length of time using neopronouns.
5-10 years
1 participant (50.000% of participants in the 5-10 year range) answered "no, not at all."
1 participant (50.000%) answered "I use the same pronouns, but I have added a set/sets."
3-5 years
3 participants (25.000% of participants in the 3-5 year range) answered "I use some of the same pronouns, but removed some."
4 participants (33.333%) answered "I use the same pronouns, but I have added a set/sets."
5 participants (41.667%) answered "no, not at all."
1-3 years
12 participants (18.750% of participants in the 1-3 year range) answered "I use some of the same pronouns, but removed some."
34 participants (53.125%) answered "I use the same pronouns, but I have added a set/sets."
18 participants (28.125%) answered "no, not at all."
Participants using neopronouns for 1-3 years, in comparison to what would be expected based on overall proportions, differed from expected values with a chi squared value of 13.186, which is statistically significant at the .05 level. There is less than a 5% chance that these proportions differing from what was expected was by pure chance. This is largely due to the low number of participants answering "yes" and the high number answering "no, not at all."
6 months-1 year
26 participants (18.182%) of participants in the 6 months-1 year range) answered "I use some of the same pronouns, but removed some."
74 participants (51.748%) answered "I use the same pronouns, but I have added a set/sets."
26 participants (18.182%) answered "no, not at all."
17 participants (11.888%) answered "yes."
1-6 months
34 participants (15.668% of participants in the 1-6 month range) answered "I use some of the same pronouns, but removed some."
127 participants (58.525%) answered "I use the same pronouns, but I have added a set/sets."
28 participants (12.903%) answered "no, not at all."
28 participants (12.903%) answered "yes."
< 1 month
1 participant (2.041% of participants in the <1 month range) answered "I use some of the same pronouns, but removed some."
26 participants (53.061%) answered "I use the same pronouns, but I have added a set/sets."
3 participants (6.122%) answered "no, not at all."
19 participants (38.776%) answered "yes."
Participants using neopronouns for less than one months, in comparison to what would be expected based on overall proportions, differed from expected values with a chi squared of 31.106, which is statistically significant at the .05 level. There is less than a 5% chance that these proportions differing from what was expected was by pure chance. This is largely due to the high number of participants who answered "yes," though the low number who answered "I use some of the same pronouns, but removed some" contributed to the high chi squared value as well.
Conclusion
The number of participants who made some sort of chance to their pronouns was high, especially in those who had been using neopronouns for one to three years, but disproportionately low in those who had been using neopronouns for less than one month. The latter is presumably because they had less time to use those pronouns and determine if they fit or needed to be changed, but further study would be needed to conclude a definite causation.
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The counts of users for letter that a set of pronouns starts with. The letters H, S, and T are divided into two categories- pronouns overall and neopronouns only. The list is in order from most common to least common, and the graph is in alphabetical order.
T (all): 498
H (all): 426
S (all): 405
emojis: 302
I: 297
F: 284
S (neos): 269
X: 261
C: 259
V: 255
A: 219
B: 217
E: 212
P: 178
Z: 167
M: 162
G:152
R: 141
T (neos): 139
D: 136
H (neos): 118
N: 115
L: 77
K: 71
W: 67
symbols: 58
O: 34
U: 14
J: 11
Q: 11
Y: 8
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