Share of people aware of the LGBTQ+ term "X-gender" and its meaning in Japan 2020

In a survey conducted in December 2020, approximately seven percent of Japanese respondents were familiar with the term "X-gender" and its meaning, while a majority of around 77 percent had never encountered the term before. "X-gender" is a Japanese term used to describe people whose gender identity lies outside the binary gender identities "male" and "female". Not necessarily referring to a specific third gender, it is an umbrella term comprising different nonbinary gender identities and can therefore be seen as part of the initialism LGBTQ+.

The acronym LGBTQ+, often just LGBT, is an umbrella term describing members of sexual minorities. The individual letters stand for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning, with the "+" including an additional and larger spectrum of sexual identities and gender identities.