Canada is home to approximately one ln people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, Two-Spir or who intify wh another non-bary genr or mory sexual inty (LGBTQ2+), acuntg for 4% of the total populatn aged 15 and olr 2018. To mark Pri Season, we are patg a mographic and social profile of Canada's diverse LGBTQ2+ muni.
Contents:
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS & QUEER INTIFIED PEOPLE AND MENTAL HEALTH
- MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS & QUEER INTIFIED PEOPLE AND MENTAL HEALTH
* lgbt youth mental health statistics canada *
Pri Season brgs together members of diverse muni who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, Two-Spir, or those who intify wh another non-bary genr or mory sexual inty (LGBTQ2+) and alli celebratg one of Canada's greatt strengths that is diversy and cln. Much of the data this release foc on LGB Canadians (lbian, gay, bisexual), sce Statistics Canada has been llectg tailed rmatn on the muni sce 2003. Although much has been acplished sce the begng of the new lennium, cludg the legalizatn of same-sex marriage 2005, and protectg genr exprsn and inty the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Crimal Co 2017, ncerns rema, given the spike hate crim targetg LGBTQ2+ Canadians one-third of LGBTQ2+ Canadians are unr 25 years oldCombed data om the 2015 to 2018 cycl of the Canadian Communy Health Survey (CCHS) found that one-quarter of Canada's LGB populatn were gay men (255, 100), while 1 7 are gay or lbian women (150, 600).
Concerns rema terms of acceptance, mental health and well-begAcrdg to the 2018 Survey on Safety Public and Private Spac, LGB+ Canadians (lbian, gay, bisexual, and Canadians whose sexual orientatn is not heterosexual) were more likely to report beg vlently victimized their lifetime and to have experienced appropriate behavurs public and onle than non-sexual mory Canadians.
MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH
Lbian, gay and bisexual people tend to have poorer mental health than heterosexual people. In 2015, an timated 405,000 Canadians intified as eher gay or lbian, while another 444,000 intified as bisexual. Among men, 1.9% intified as gay, and among women, 1.1% intified as lbian. Signifintly more women intified as bisexual (2.2%) than men (1.1%). * lgbt youth mental health statistics canada *
Nearly 9 10 (88%) of the crim specifilly targeted the gay and lbian muny, while the remar prised cints targetg bisexual people (2%), people wh other sexual orientatns, such as asexual, pansexual or other non-heterosexual orientatns (6%), and people whose sexual orientatn was unknown (4%).
Usg data for the populatn aged 15 and olr om the 2015 Canadian Communy Health Survey (CCHS), this study prents prevalence timat of sexual mory populatns and dispari plete mental health between gay, lbian and bisexual dividuals, and their heterosexual unterparts. Complete mental health is fed as beg flourishg mental health batn wh the absence of a mood or anxiety disorr diagnosis and absence of suici iatn the prev 12 months. * lgbt youth mental health statistics canada *
Statistics Canada will also be releasg a seri of four articl g the CCHS over the urse of 2021 and early 2022 to highlight the characteristics of the lbian, gay, bisexual and heterosexual populatn on the followg them: fay and hoehold characteristics, lguistic and ethnocultural diversy, tn and labour.