Stats Canada

• 1% —  of Canadians aged 18 years and over identified themselves as homosexual (gay or lesbian) in the 2009 General Social Survey on Victimization.

• 1% — of Canadians aged 18 years and over identified themselves as bisexual in the 2009 General Social Survey on Victimization.

• 7,700 —  of children aged 24 and under living with female samesex parents in 2011.

• 1,900 —  of children aged 24 and under living with male samesex parents in 2011.

 

GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network): ThinkB4YouSpeak

• 9 out of 10 LGBT students hear the word “gay” used in a negative way often or frequently in school

• nearly 3 out of 4 LGBT students report hearing their peers make homophobic remarks, such as “dyke” or “faggot,” often or frequently in school.

• 83.1% of LGBT students report that hearing “gay” or “queer” used in a negative manner at school causes them to feel bothered or distressed to some degree. Yet only 18% of LGBT students report that school personnel frequently intervene when hearing homophobic remarks and only 8% report that other students frequently intervene.

• 54% of LGBT students often or frequently hear negative comments about their peers not acting “masculine” enough and 39% hear comments about their peers not acting “feminine” enough.

• Almost 90% of LGBT students are verbally harassed, 44% are physically harassed and
  nearly 1/4 are physically assaulted at school because of their sexual orientation. And
  2/3 of LGBT students are verbally harassed, 30% are physically harassed and 14% are
  physically assaulted at school because of their gender expression.

• LGBT students who experience high frequencies of verbal harassment are twice as likely as other LGBT students to skip school, and LGBT students who are frequently physically harassed report lower grades than other students (on average a 2.4 versus a 2.8 GPA).

• Only 30% of LGBT students who experience high frequencies of physical harassment say they will go on to college (as compared to 41.5% of other students).

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The Every Teacher Project

• 71% identified as women, 26% identified as men, and 3% as transgender. The average age of educators was 41.4 years. These demographic characteristics are closely representative of the Canadian teaching population, which is 75% women and has an average age of 45 (Canadian Teacher, 2014).

• 3% of respondents were transgender (i.e., self-identified as transgender, transsexual, gender neutral, gender free, and/or indicated a gender different from their assigned sex at birth, such as a someone who identified as a woman and was assigned male at birth). Where numbers permitted we conducted analyses comparing the responses of transgender and cisgender participants.

• Although there are no reliable population data on the number of LGBTQ Canadians, let alone the number of LGBTQ educators, at 16% of unweighted survey participants, LGBTQ representation is consistent with the upper end of most LGBTQ population estimates, and provides a strong subset for analysis.