GENDER-DIVERSE: - A SPOTLIGHT ON THE HEALTH OF TRANS AND NON-BINARY YOUNG PEOPLE IN BC

GENDER-DIVERSE: A SPOTLIGHT ON THE HEALTH OF TRANS AND NON-BINARY YOUNG PEOPLE IN BC 14 Spending Money Hunger Nearly a quarter of trans girls (23%*) and When asked if they had access to lunch, or trans boys (23%), 17% of non-binary youth, money for lunch, at school, 12%* of trans and 16% of questioning youth said that girls, 11% of trans boys, and 8% of non- they did not have money to spend on bin. [...] While about 1% of cis girls and cis curricular activities compared to all boys reported often or always going to gender-diverse groups: 3% of cis boys bed hungry, trans girls and trans boys and 4% of cis girls did not have money were 6–8 times as likely, and non-binary for school supplies, compared to 20%* of and questioning youth were about 2.5–5 trans girls, 12% of trans boys, 11% of non- times. [...] Happy in the Past Month More than one third of questioning youth (37%) and over half of trans girls (53%*) reported feeling happy most or all of the time in the past month, and slightly fewer than 1 in 3 trans boys (31%) and non-binary youth (30%) said that they had felt happy most or all of the time in the past month. [...] About half of trans boys (50%) and questioning youth, 39% of non-binary non-binary youth (49%), and more than youth, and 38% of trans boys agreed or half of questioning youth (55%) and trans strongly agreed that their life was going girls (61%*) agreed or strongly agreed well, more than half of trans boys (53%) that they have a good life. [...] Fewer gender- and trans girls (52%*), and more than diverse youth, 23% of trans boys, 31% a third of questioning youth (41%) and of non-binary youth, 35% of questioning non-binary youth (37%) wished they had a youth, and 35%* of trans girls, said they different life.