The risk of being teased, insulted or excluded was heightened among sexually and gender diverse youth—including those who are transgender, are non-binary and/or have same-gender attraction—compared with cisgender youth attracted exclusively to people of a different gender.
According to data from the Canadian Health Survey on Children and Youth from 2019, 77% of sexually and gender diverse youth had been the target of bullying in the previous year, a higher proportion than that reported among cisgender youth who are attracted exclusively to people of a different gender (69%).
A new study conducted by Statistics Canada sheds light on the prevalence and severity of self-reported experiences of bullying among youth who are attracted to people of the same gender and among transgender and non-binary youth. These groups represented 18% of all youth aged 15 to 17 years in 2019, and this is the first time that nationally representative data are available to examine bullying among these demographics.
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