Canada is the first country to provide census data on transgender and non-binary people

Among all CMAs, the largest proportions of transgender and non-binary people aged 15 and older were found in Victoria (0.75%), Halifax (0.66%) and Fredericton (0.60%), on the west and the east coasts of Canada. [...] While Quebec had the lowest proportion of transgender and non-binary people among the provinces, almost three-quarters (71.5%) of the non-binary people and over half (54.7%) of the transgender people in Quebec lived in the CMA of Montréal. [...] The proportion of non-binary people in Quebec living in the Montréal CMA (71.5%) was higher than the comparable proportions observed in the large urban areas of Vancouver (home to 53.1% of non-binary people in British Columbia) and Toronto (home to 41.3% of non-binary people in Ontario). [...] Second, the concentration of numerous postsecondary educational institutions within downtown cores, combined with a more cosmopolitan atmosphere and the greater availability of social spaces and specialized services for transgender, non-binary and LGBTQ2+ people more broadly, may also explain the higher presence of non-binary people in the heart of large urban centres. [...] Family and household characteristics and sociocultural and socioeconomic data from the 2021 Census released over the next months will continue to enrich the portrait of the transgender and non-binary populations in Canada.