Does anyone have sex stats on nonbinary people?

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PermanentTemporary · 08/03/2022 22:44

How many female, how many male? Google seems unable to conceive of this as a question.

The nonbinary person I know best is male, though I think at least one of the transmen I know will eventually identify as nonbinary.

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Waitwhat23 · 09/03/2022 13:06

Despite this massive skew towards girls (I'm not using the ridiculous ideological nonsense of AFAB) identifying as non - binary and the same kind of percentage for those identifying as trans (despite the fact that historically it has always been a majority of males identifying as girls), there's still a reluctance/silencing around any research to examine why this is happening. Any suggestion of social contagion is screamed down. Girls identifying as girls is 'social suicide' in Schools.

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PermanentTemporary · 09/03/2022 12:56

Thanks Dadjoke, much appreciated.

There may well be a time lag - there definitely are more females in their 30s transitioning to live as men (from a base of statistically none) and there may well be more males who identify as NB in the future.

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Ereshkigalangcleg · 09/03/2022 10:50

Thanks for the sex stats, Dadjoke. It confirms our assumptions.

SunniDelite · 09/03/2022 10:48

The fact that we have to mention whether a non-binary is male or female just show what a nonsense non-binary is.....

DadJoke · 09/03/2022 10:35

Based on one research article, two-thirds of nonbinary young people (15-24) are AFAB, the rest AMAB. The majority of nonbinary people I know are AFAB (almost all of whom are over 25).

This is an American study, so not necessarily applicable to the UK.

www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/trgh.2018.0068

Ereshkigalangcleg · 09/03/2022 10:18

And the whole idea of non binary is not to recognise sex so it's unlikely that any definitive statistics would exist.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 09/03/2022 10:16

I think there a lot of bandwagon jumpers for whom it's fairly meaningless, but where people take it seriously I think it's more common in female people because it offers them a way to opt out of traditional ideas of womanhood/sex stereotypes etc without having to declare themselves men.

Linguini · 09/03/2022 09:27

Females tend to be more susceptible to social contagion so I'd predict more female nonbinaries at school/college/uni age range.

Linguini · 09/03/2022 09:26

The vast vast majority are teenaged and grow out of it by mid twenties....

MoonOnASpoon · 09/03/2022 08:24

The ones I know and know of personally are all female. However, IME non-binary can be a kind of “gateway” identity into full identifying as the opposite sex, and it can also (quite sensibly I think) be chosen by young people who feel peer pressure to be “LGBTQ” and be cool, but don’t want to commit - and who then quite quickly grow out of it. So there’s a lot of flip-flopping in and out of being NB which would make it quite hard to monitor.

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