Autigender

The term autigender refers to when someone’s gender, or their experience of gender, is influenced by their autism.

Autigender appeared once in the Gender Census, in 2025, when it was chosen by 5.5% of respondents.

You can learn more about autistic people’s experiences with gender in a great article from Men’s Health.




The Gender Census is a global annual online survey of people whose genders aren’t exclusively male or female.

You can see how Autigender performed, compared to other similarly popular terms in the Gender Census, in the graph below.

You can click the images in this article to view larger versions of them.

The graphs in this series were created using Flourish, a website that allows users to create compelling visual aids.




Here is a graph that shows fewer terms so the remaining lines can be more easily seen.

Autigender was the fourth least popular identity term in the 2025 Gender Census.

Autigender outperformed none, cisgender, and binary. 

You can read more about the results of the 2025 Gender Census in an article I wrote in September.




Autism is sometimes shortened to the prefix “auti-” that can appear before gendered terms, to represent that someone’s autism influences their gender, or how they experience their gender.

This can be seen in compound words such as autigirl, autiboy, autiwoman, or autiman.

Pairing Analysis

Responses from the Gender Census can be used to determine the percent of respondents who chose one term, who also chose another term.

This pairing analysis allows us to better understand the relationships between identity terms in the survey.



I first discussed my pairing analysis of the Gender Census in Agender, Genderless, and Gendervoid.

In that article, I also provided a step-by-step walkthrough of how I calculated my pairing analysis results.

Now, let’s examine the results of my pairing analysis for Autigender.

This pairing analysis was conducted on responses from the 2025 Gender Census.



2,373 people selected Autigender in the 2025 survey, representing 5.5% of respondents.







72% of Autigender respondents identified as Queer.

71% of Autigender respondents identified as Nonbinary. 

61% of Autigender respondents identified as Trans.



55% of Autigender respondents identified as Transgender.

53% of Autigender respondents identified as Genderqueer.



Therefore, majorities of Autigender respondents identified as Queer, Nonbinary, Trans, Transgender, and Genderqueer.





49% of Autigender respondents identified as Gender Non-Conforming.



44% of Autigender respondents selected, “a person / human / [my name] / ‘I’m just me.’ ”

This option will be abbreviated as (Person), below.



42% of Autigender respondents selected "Enby".

The plural of Enby is Enbies.



40% of Autigender respondents identified as Transmasculine.



Therefore, large minorities of Autigender respondents identified as Gender Non-Conforming, (Person), Enbies, and Transmasculine.

Conclusion

The term autigender refers to when someone’s gender, or their experience of gender, is influenced by their autism. 

Autigender appeared once in the Gender Census, in 2025, when it was chosen by 5.5% of respondents. 

Therefore, Autigender is a relatively uncommon term, compared to others that have appeared in the Gender Census.





Majorities of Autigender respondents identified as Queer, Nonbinary, Trans, Transgender, and Genderqueer.

Large minorities of Autigender respondents identified as Gender Non-Conforming, (Person), Enbies, and Transmasculine.





This article is part of Season 3 of LGBT by the Numbers, which explores the results of the Gender Census, a global annual online survey of people whose genders aren’t exclusively male or female.

Join me next time as we continue to explore LGBT identity, by the numbers.