* Couple families in which at least one member is transgender and neither member is non-binary. ** Couple families in which at least one member is non-binary.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, statcan.gc.ca, 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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Number of LGBTQIA+ couples in Canada 2021, by type of couple and union
The Canadian government's national population census recorded ** LGBTQIA+ couples in 2021. The majority of these couples were composed of two cisgender women or two cisgender men (people whose gender matches the sex they were assigned at birth), but a quarter were transgender couples (people whose gender does not match the sex they were assigned at birth), or non-binary couples (people who are not exclusively male or female).
In addition, common-law unions were the most common type of union, with the exception of transgender couples, the majority of whom were married. In fact, there were the same number of married couples among trans couples as among couples of cisgender men.
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