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+title: on the ubiquity of 'enby'
+image:
+  src: 2024/gender-census.jpg
+  alt: "A screenshot of part of the Gender Census reports page, showing the header bar and a title that reads 'Gender Census 2023 Worldwide Report'"
+tags:
+  - reference
+  - gender
+---
+
+(originally [posted on fedi](https://strangeobject.space/@inherentlee/113093311823169762){target="_blank" rel="external"})
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+update: in [gender census' 2025 report](https://www.gendercensus.com/results/2025-worldwide/#identity-words){target="_blank" rel="external"} the numbers continue to be very similar, sitting at about 62% and 30% respectively.
+
+---
+
+update: in 2024, ~60% of respondents use "nonbinary." ~29% use "enby."
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+---
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+according to [gender census](https://www.gendercensus.com){target="_blank" rel="external"}, which surveys "people whose genders are not adequately described, expressed or encompassed by the restrictive gender binary":
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+- ~64% of respondents use the term "nonbinary"
+- ~32% of respondents use the term "enby"
+
+source: [gender census - identity words](https://www.gendercensus.com/results/2023-worldwide/#identity-words){target="_blank" rel="external"} (this was a "choose all that apply" question, not "either/or")
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+we don't know the overlap - it could be that half of nonbinary people also use enby, or that bunches of people use enby who don't call themselves nonbinary
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+either way, there's a big chunk of nonbinary folks who don't call themselves enbies - at least half of us
+
+**if you're talking about the entire community or the gender category:** please consider just saying nonbinary