The StatsCan report: Perceptions of gender-based violence and gender equality, identity and expression in Canada, 2025

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A new Statistics Canada report says Canada is becoming less accepting of gender diversity.

In 2025, 77 per cent of women and 70 per cent of men surveyed said they agreed or strongly agreed that people should be free to express their gender however they choose.

That’s a drop from 2018, when 85 per cent of women and 78 per cent of men agreed.

In Saskatchewan, 69 per cent of women and 60 per cent of men surveyed last year said they agreed, making it the province with the lowest acceptance of gender diversity in the country.

Women in Saskatchewan specifically were down 14 percentage points from 2018, when 83 per cent agreed people should be free to express their gender however they choose.

Since 2018, Saskatchewan and Alberta’s provincial governments have passed legislation targeting trans and gender diverse youth, such as Saskatchewan’s Parents’ Bill of Rights, enacted in 2023.

  • brianpeiris@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    6·
    4 hours ago

    If you’re referring to American billionaires, I’d probably agree. But I think this section from the article is more accurate and less to do with billionaires:

    Confusion and fear are possible reasons why people are becoming less accepting of gender diversity, said Wayne Bernakevitch, founder of the Regina Civic Awareness Action Network, an organization that lobbied in favour of the Parents’ Bill of Rights.

    “They’re concerned with finding a house to live in, you know, how do you pay for the next week’s groceries? And so getting into all of this is just a great distraction in their life,” Bernakevitch said in an interview with CBC’s Blue Sky.

    Politicians play a critical role in the creation of these attitudes, Leah Hamilton, a professor of business, communication studies and aviation at Mount Royal University, told Blue Sky.

    “We have seen over and over throughout history, especially during periods of perceived or real competition for resources like jobs and housing and other things, that politicians will often create scapegoats,” Hamilton said.

    • TheJesusaurus@piefed.caEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      You think politicians scapegoating people DOESN’T have to do with billionaires?

      Whether I’m struggling to pay my rent doesn’t actually determine what people are valid and deserve rights.

      There is no such thing as an “American billionaire” as opposed to billionaires generally. They are stateless. Billionaires are billionaires and lines on a map don’t stop them from exploiting people. In fact it makes it easier.