Young people are more likely to believe gender exists on a spectrum, according to a new study.

1,000 of Americans aged 18 to 34 were surveyed on gender, with half believing the binary categories of male and female are too limiting.

They were asked: ‘Some countries, including India, recognize a gender that is neither male nor female. Which more closely aligns with your view?’

Options were ‘There are only two genders, male and female’, which in total received 46% support, ‘Gender is a spectrum, and some people fall outside conventional categories’, which received 50%, and 4% answered ‘Don’t know’.

The poll, conducted by Fusion, found 57% of female millenials believe gender falls on a spectrum compared to 44% of male respondees.

Northeast 18-34 year olds were even more progressive, with 58% agreeing with that statement compared to the South where that number fell to 42%.

The poll also found a difference in race, with 5% of whites agreeing gender is on a spectrum compared to 47% of Latinos and 32% of African Americans.

The survey comes as more people are coming out as genderfluid and genderqueer, much like gay Australian supermodel and Orange Is The New Black actress Ruby Rose (pictured).

More university are offering gender-neutral identity cards, with San Francisco State University having housing options that include ‘other gender-identity roommate pairings, regardless of biological sex’.