Gender Identity

Beginning in Fall 2025, the CSU system retired the historical Sex field (Male, Female, Nonbinary, blank) and replaced it with a Gender Identity field for demographic reporting. This change standardizes reporting across CSU systems, and reflects individuals’ self-identified gender.

Current Gender Identity Categories (Fall 2025–present):

• Man
• Woman
• Genderqueer or gender-fluid: Genderqueer is a term often used to describe a person whose gender falls outside the dominant societal norm for their assigned sex, is beyond genders, or is some combination of genders. Gender-fluid is a term often used to describe a person whose gender identification and presentation shifts, whether within or outside societal, gender-based expectations.
• Another Gender
• Nonbinary: A person that does not identify with dominant understandings of what it means to be a “man” or “woman.” For nonbinary individuals, identity can manifest between, above, or outside “man” and “woman.”

Notes:

The categories Trans Man, Trans Woman, and Not Sure were discontinued beginning in Fall 2025 and are no longer used in current reporting.

Gender identity reflects an individual’s self-identified gender and is distinct from the sex assigned at birth.