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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
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(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.

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update: in 2024, ~60% of respondents use "nonbinary." ~29% use "enby."

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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":

- ~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")

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

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