In this census, trans & non-binary people count!

Trans PULSE Canada is a community-based survey of the health and well-being of trans and non-binary people in Canada.

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In the fall of 2019, 2,873 trans and non-binary people age 14 years or older and living in Canada participated in the Trans PULSE Canada survey in English or French. In Fall 2020, 820 Trans PULSE Canada participants completed an online survey on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Trans PULSE Canada team is a majority-trans group of community and academic researchers from across Canada.

Together we bring more than 180 person-years of experience on more than 80 community-based research studies.

Meet our research team
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Trans PULSE Canada Wrap-Up

After years of collective work to document the experiences of trans communities we are starting to wrap up work on Trans PULSE Canada. So many of you in the community contributed your experiences to this data set, and your efforts to making this happen. So many of you are taking our results and using them in your professional work and advocacy and it has been such an inspiration.

While our funding, and the bulk of our work, have wrapped up, you will still see new Trans PULSE Canada results posted here for at least another year or two. All of us on the Trans PULSE Canada team continue to work (separately and together) on a range of projects related to trans and non-binary health and community. We are committed to maintaining this web site for the foreseeable future to make it easier for you to locate our work from Trans PULSE Canada, and you can continue using “Data in Action” to tell us what you’re doing with our work. What we won’t be able to do going forward is maintain a project email contact, and we will not have the capacity to take on extra work to assist on other people’s projects. We’re using our time and energy to make sure the remaining high-priority items get out to you.

So what comes next? We still have academic articles, QuickStats, and reports in the works; so, stay tuned. This will be a long, slow, farewell!