Sabi (Bilal Baig) is the non-binary main character of the Canadian sitcom “Sort of” (Image: Sky Germany)
0.33 percent of Canada’s population reported being trans or nonbinary at the 2021 census. This was announced by the Statistics Authority of Canada in the capital Ottawa on Wednesday. famous, According to this, of the approximately 30.5 million people over the age of 15 living in Canada, 41,355 are non-binary people, 31,555 are trans women and 27,905 are trans men – a total of about 101,000 people.
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According to the Office of Statistics, there are large differences in the proportion of trans or non-binary people between generations. While 0.8 percent of the group of people born after 1997 assigned themselves to a gender minority, the figure is only 0.1 percent for those born before 1945.
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Canada is the first country in the world to conduct a comprehensive population census that asked for the gender identity of its residents. Some countries have at least the proportion of their trans populations estimated in the study. For example, in Belgium and New Zealand, representative surveys concluded that the trans share was 0.5 percent in each case. Other studies from the past year came to similar conclusions using a variety of methods: Ireland kept its trans share at around 0.6 percent, the United States at 0.8 percent.
Canada is one of the most queer-friendly countries in the world. Last year, the country decided to impose a sweeping ban on trans and gay “treatment” (queer.de reported).
There are also a number of queer-friendly programs on Canadian television: for years, the public broadcaster CBC aired “Shit’s Creek”, one of the most successful Canadian sitcoms of all time. Pansexual David (Dan Levy) was one of the main characters. Recently, the comedy series “Sort of” made headlines, in which the non-binary character Sabi (Bilal Baig) plays the lead role. “Sort of” was awarded Best Comedy Series at the Canadian Television Awards in mid-April (reported queer.de). (dk)
