Gender identity and sexual orientation

Gender identity

Close to 6 out of 10 students identify as a woman

Nearly 55% of student respondents identify as women and approximately 44% as men. This represents a variation from previous results in which 58% of respondents identified as women and 33% of respondents identified as men. The representation of women in the university populations of Canada stands at 58%. In Quebec, the percentage is 59%.
4% of respondents identify as neither men or women.
60% of respondents who are members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities identify as women.
Nearly 45% of graduate student respondents identify as women.

7% of census respondents identify as a trans person or a member of a gender-diverse community. The proportion is slightly higher among students in the Faculty of Arts and Science (9%), and much higher among students in the Faculty of Fine Arts (18%) and those pursuing interdisciplinary studies (29%).
Conversely, the proportion is lower among graduate students (4%), students studying in the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science (3%) as well as the John Molson School of Business (1%).
23% of students who live with a disability or impairment also identify as members of a gender-diverse community. This is a much higher proportion than for the Concordia population as a whole (7%).
Concordia seems to have a well-represented gender-diverse community among its student population when compared to the Canadian (0.33%) and Quebec (0.23%) populations.

Among Concordia students, 26% identify as a member of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities with respect to sexual orientation. This represents a notable increase compared to the 2022 results (23%) and surpasses the national average of 4% within the Canadian population.
At Concordia, the proportion of students who identify as members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities are also more represented in part-time studies (30%). A significant proportion of the respondents also identify as an Indigenous person in Canada (42%), reported a disability (56%), and/or are students in the Faculty of Arts and Science (35%), the Faculty of Fine Arts (51%) or interdisciplinary studies (54%).
On the other hand, members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities are underrepresented among graduate students (15%) and in the John Molson School of Business (11%) or the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science (10%).
The majority of Concordia students define their sexual orientation as straight (62%), a similar pattern to what is observed in Canadian universities (62%). However, there are fewer heterosexual respondents than recorded in 2022 (69%). Students in the John Molson School of Business or Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science were more likely to identify as straight (77% and 74%, respectively).

Legend	Sexual orientation	Percentage
	Members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities	26%
	Straight (heterosexual)	62%
	Prefer not to answer	12%