'In other countries, people tend to put these two things together as if they're just one thing,' Greenbaum said. Of the 30.5 million Canadians over 15 and living in a private household as of May of last year, 100,815 counted themselves as transgender (59,460) or non-binary (41,355). 'It really shows that the government cares about people and might, hopefully, be putting some programs in place or at least adapting programs that already exist.'
'For many trans people, it's a sign that the government acknowledges they exist,' said LGBT+ Family Coalition executive director Mona Greenbaum. It's the first time gender and sex data have been tabulated separately in the census, which LGBT2S+ advocates are claiming as a big win. Quebec has the third-largest population of transgender and non-binary people in Canada, according to most recent census, though the proportion of the population this group makes up is the lowest among the provinces.
