There is no national census data available for the United States. “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?” the census asked. Just under half of transgender people said they lived in the six largest urban areas, proportionally similar to Canada’s overall average.Ĭanadian officials said they decided to add the new language to the census in response to the country’s efforts to extend protections to LGBTQ people, along with a growing, global focus on gender diversity. They also reported high rates of living in urban centers. Just over half of nonbinary people resided in one of the six largest urban centers in Canada. In contrast, 48 was the average age among the nearly 30.5 million people in Canada 15 years and older. Of those, the average age among transgender people was 39.4 years and 30.4 years for nonbinary people. The census recorded 59,460 people in Canada 15 and older identifying as transgender and 41,355 as nonbinary. The rate was even higher among people age 20 to 24, nearly 1 in 100 of whom selected transgender or nonbinary. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
