Table 11
Transgender and cisgender Canadians' experiences of unwanted behaviours in public places and online and protective measures taken online, by type of behaviour, 2018


Table 11
Transgender and cisgender Canadians' experiences of unwanted behaviours in public places and online and protective measures taken online, by type of behaviour, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Transgender and cisgender Canadians' experiences of unwanted behaviours in public places and online and protective measures taken online. The information is grouped by Type of behaviour (appearing as row headers), Cisgender, Transgender, percent and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of behaviour CisgenderTable 11 Note † Table 11 Note 1 TransgenderTable 11 Note 2
percentTable 11 Note 3 95% confidence interval percentTable 11 Note 3 95% confidence interval
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Unwanted behaviours in public places
Unwanted physical contact 11.9 11.4 12.4 22.0 6.4 47.0
Indecent exposure 3.8 3.4 4.1 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published
Unwanted comments about sex or gender 8.8 8.4 9.3 43.4Note * 21.0 68.0
Unwanted comments about sexual orientation or assumed sexual orientation 3.8 3.5 4.2 36.5Note * 18.8 57.3
Unwanted sexual attention 15.3 14.8 15.9 39.2Note * 21.0 59.9
Experienced unwanted sexual behaviour in public in the past 12 months 22.7 22.1 23.4 57.6Note * 37.1 76.5
Unwanted behaviours online
Threatening or aggressive emails or messages directed at you personally 8.9 8.4 9.4 28.6 11.9 50.9
Threatening or aggressive messages sent to a group or on social media 4.3 3.9 4.7 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published
Posting or distributing, or threatening to post or distribute, intimate or sexually explicit images without consent 1.6 1.3 1.8 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published
Pressure to send, share, or post sexually suggestive or explicit images or messages 2.7 2.5 3.0 20.3 6.4 42.1
Being sent unwanted sexually suggestive or explicit images or messages 8.6 8.1 9.1 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published
Experienced unwanted sexual behaviour online in the past 12 months 16.0 15.4 16.7 41.6Note * 21.7 63.8
Protective measures online
Changed username or blocked others because of harassment 13.5 12.9 14.1 37.4Note * 18.3 59.7
Limited Internet use or social media participation for protection 14.7 14.2 15.3 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published
Shut down or deleted an account because of harassment 3.4 3.2 3.7 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published
Took a protective measure online due to harassment in the past 12 months 23.5 22.8 24.2 40.8 21.1 63.0
F too unreliable to be published
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significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05)

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Note †

reference category

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Note 1

Cisgender includes all respondents whose reported gender aligns with their reported sex at birth.

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Note 2

Transgender includes all respondents who reported a gender different from their sex at birth, including those who are non-binary, that is, whose current gender was not reported exclusively as male or female.

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Note 3

Percent calculations include missing or not stated responses. For behaviours online and protective measures online, percent calculations exclude those who stated they did not use the Internet.

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Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces.
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