TL;DR: Do you know anyone who might be interested in participating? Please feel free to forward this email!
We're 10 days into this year's annual survey, with almost 26,000 participants from 118 countries. We've also got about 550 new followers on Tumblr, and about 1,000 new subscribers to the mailing list. (Hi, new people!)
Here's how participation this year compares to the last two surveys:
Participation is starting to slow, which means that we're reaching the limits of the Gender Census social media bubble. The next 3 weeks is more work, but more worth it, as we work to bring in respondents outside of the well-represented demographics. We're looking to decrease these percentages, by inviting people of diverse ages, nationalities, and internet abilities:
(You can spy on incoming participation demographics here.)
Those of you who've been following the project for a few years will know that the over-30s aren't as visible in the survey, just because younger people use the internet (and especially social media) a lot more. That's where you come in!
Over-30s are at the moment mostly finding the survey through Facebook, this mailing list, the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc) and one-on-one word-of-mouth. Here's some ways you can easily spread the word:
At the moment it's looking like the survey will probably climb to about 30,000 participants before it closes on or shortly after 9th May, but our previous record is a little over 44,000. Any and all retweets and reblogs are also very much appreciated.
And finally! If you would like to hitch yourself to the Gender Census Patreon page so that you automatically donate a few £/$/€ next year, please feel free - and thanks to many lovely people we are pretty well-funded! So if you would additionally/instead like to donate to a potentially very influential legal case that could force the British government to start issuing nonbinary gender recognition certificates (implications: huge!!!), I strongly recommend backing Ryan Castellucci's legal crowdfunder, because they're single-handedly taking on the Entire UK Government. What a legend.
Thank you everyone for your support! I'll email again when there's only a couple of days left to do the survey, and then again when the results report is up, and then that'll be it from me until 2024.
Take care of yourselves. 💜
Cassian
Gender Census
Tumblr // Mastodon // Patreon // Amazon Wishlist
hello@gendercensus.com
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