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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
What's more, we've never seen anything remotely close to this level of controversy and media attention to the much more profound and serious issues around disabled Canadians. I am involved in advocacy for the disabled and this bothers me a lot.
There are no good stats, but Canada LGBT population is loosely estimated at 30,000-40,000 people. Of those, transgendered population is a very small proportion, a few hundred to a thousand at most, I am guessing. There are 3,800,000 (!) disabled people in Canada going through an enormous physical and mental struggle every day of their lives; many of them surviving only on $1,500/month government assistance. I guess, their issues are just not sexy enough to be of interest to social media.
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Sorry, this needs to be corrected. There are good stats.
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/dai/smr...smr08_203_2015
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1.7% The percentage of Canadians aged 18 to 59 who reported in 2014 that they consider themselves to be homosexual (gay or lesbian).
1.3% The percentage of Canadians aged 18 to 59 who reported in 2014 that they consider themselves to be bisexual.
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Which, given Canada's population of about 36 million is about 600 000 and 470 000 respectively. I thought your number sounded exceedingly low, so I had to look it up.
I couldn't find numbers for transgender in Canada, but in the states it ranges from 0.3 to 0.78%.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/h...opulation.html
So if we go with, say, 0.5% that is 180 000 people. That's not nothing.