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I answer monthly rider surveys for the MBTA, and they are now collecting demographic data.
The survey includes a question about gender identity, which has ticky boxes for man, woman, nonbinary, gender queer, and agender, and for both cisgender and transgender. They aren't making the common error of treating "transgender" as separate from male or female, and this is the first such survey I can remember that is asking if people are trans, but that isn't treating cisgender as the default/unmarked state. [Somewhere later on, someone is probably assuming that people are cis unless otherwise stated, but at this stage, they're treating cis and trans the same way.]
Since they're ticky boxes, I checked "woman" and "cisgender."
The survey includes a question about gender identity, which has ticky boxes for man, woman, nonbinary, gender queer, and agender, and for both cisgender and transgender. They aren't making the common error of treating "transgender" as separate from male or female, and this is the first such survey I can remember that is asking if people are trans, but that isn't treating cisgender as the default/unmarked state. [Somewhere later on, someone is probably assuming that people are cis unless otherwise stated, but at this stage, they're treating cis and trans the same way.]
Since they're ticky boxes, I checked "woman" and "cisgender."
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I'm increasingly of the opinion that my gender is "autistic," which gives me a weird relationship with a lot of social constructs. But it's kinda hard to describe that, so "agender" or "pick a gender" works for me!
(I also have this hypothesis that queerness and neurodivergence are linked, so there's that?)
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I've seen a lot that seem to treat "trans" as a separate gender from female and male (and sometimes only let a person check one box), which is flat-out wrong. Those forms don't seem to be trying to include nonbinary trans people, either.