For the first time, Statistics Canada differentiated between "sex at birth" and "gender" in the 2021 census. Here are some key figures from Wednesday's release of the results.
— 1 in 300 Canadians over the age of 15 — 100,815 people — have a gender that differs from their sex assigned at birth.
— 41,355 people in that age group are non-binary.
— 31,555 are transgender women.
— 27,905 are transgender men.
— Younger people are far more likely than older people to report being transgender. Some 0.85 per cent of people aged 20 to 24 are non-binary or transgender.
— Nova Scotia (0.48 per cent), Yukon (0.47 per cent) and British Columbia (0.44 per cent) have the highest proportions of transgender and non-binary people aged 15 and older among provinces and territories.
— 52.7 per cent of non-binary people aged 15 and older live in one of Canada's six largest urban centres.
— 15.3 per cent of non-binary people live in Toronto.
— 15.5 per cent of non-binary people live in the downtown core of a large urban centre, compared to 7 per cent of transgender people and 4.7 per cent of non-transgender people.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 27, 2022.
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