What do Canadian people think about gender identity?
Social axis · 🇨🇦 Canada · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
69% of Canadian respondents take the position “Whether you are a man or a woman is for you to say.”, against 16% for “Whether you are a man or a woman is set at birth.”, with 15% choosing neither. n = 112, margin of error ±9.4, weighted to Canada's adult population.
Where Canada sits on social
What is measured about Canada on this axis. These are facts about the country, not what its people think about them — that is the part of this page waiting on a sample.
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Urban population
UN World Urbanization Prospects · 2025
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82.9% |
higher than most countries
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Tertiary enrolment
UNESCO UIS · 2023
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76.3% |
somewhat above the middle
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Using the internet
ITU · 2024
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94.4% |
higher than most countries
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Ranked against every country with a published figure for the same series. Sources: World Bank World Development Indicators, which republish UN, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, SIPRI, IISS and UNODC data.
The questions that bear on gender identity
Asked as a forced choice between two written positions, in randomised order, with the sides flipped for half of respondents.
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A · Whether you are a man or a woman is set at birth.
B · Whether you are a man or a woman is for you to say.
World, unweighted: 46% A ·
21% neither ·
33% B · n = 4753
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69% B 🇨🇦 n=112 |
A national figure appears only once that nation clears 100 responses on the question. The world column is a raw count of every answer received and is not post-stratified — it is shown because withholding it would say less, not more.
Asked another way
The same question, as people put it.
- Canada public opinion on gender identity
- Gender identity poll canada
- What do canadian people think about gender identity
- What percentage of canadian people support gender identity
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.