Gender Census @gendercensus@lgbt.io

(Just waiting on AWS to un-sandbox me, c u in 500 years) #NicheJoke

Just wanted to drop in a quick tweet to let you all know that I'm aware that sign-ups to the mailing list are broken - it's because we've hit TinyLetter's 5,000 subscriber limit, and I'm working on an alternative right now. :)

And the TL;DR, in case you want the headlines without having to read about everything in detail:

https://gendercensus.com/results/2021-uk-summary/

The 2021 Gender Census report for the UK is up:

https://gendercensus.com/results/2021-worldwide/

Stay tuned for the UK results report, and also swearing via my personal Twitter account while I install Excel and then learn how to use it...

The new laptop is here and it's very swish. I'm enjoying the bigger screen and the nice dark grey and everything happening when I click/press, instead of 0.8-45 seconds later! Thank you everyone! 😁🖤

I am very thankful to the people who donated even though the goal had been met, because it helped cover Crowdfunder fees and also accommodate my being a doofus about the laptop prices. 😅

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/laptop-for-gender-census-2022/updates/165959#start

TL;DR: I just bought my new laptop, and it arrives in 10-15 days!

!!!!!

Thank you very much, everyone! 💜✨

Today I adjusted the goal down from £1,300 to £1,200 because I received a donation of £100 by bank transfer, which means there's only £30 and 3 days to go!

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/laptop-for-gender-census-2022/updates/165335#start

Only £150 to go! 😁❤️ https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/laptop-for-gender-census-2022

The crowdfunder just went over 75%, with 54 supporters 🤯

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/laptop-for-gender-census-2022

Oh and just in case it wasn't clear, this would NOT happen in the annual *serious* survey, it would be a separate one-off obviously non-serious crowdfunder survey.

There would be a checkbox to make sure that participants are binary-defying/-transcending in some way, and a question asking for how they describe that (nonbinary, trans, agender, etc etc), so the vibe is, "if you could ask ALL genderly interesting people any question at all..."

And then I would write up a report of the responses, so that you can find out what the best flavour of ice cream is according to nonbinary people, for example...??

CAVEATS
- I can veto questions on ethical grounds;
- I have editorial/design control to ensure data quality, but we can discuss it before I edit;
- No questions where the answer is just a textbox, for my sanity;
- No questions about gender/sex, plurality or gender critical stuff.

Every year I get a lot of people asking me to ask questions that are outside of the scope of the survey (e.g. not about gender, not about language, etc) so this would be a chance for people to pose those questions. But also I fully expect several questions to be blatantly silly!

Your thoughts are very welcome!

Okay I'm having an idea and I'm not sure if it's a bad one. :D Can I run it by you?

A stretch goal that would enable me to buy a better (longer-lasting) computer, and the perk is a survey where the top 10 donors can choose a question (with caveats, see below).