Data released Friday by Ipsos in its annual Pride Report showed Canada was among the few nations where support has gone up among 26 countries surveyed.
For anyone else who was wondering, the 2 in LGBTQ2 apparently stands for “two-spirit”, which is:
a term used to broadly capture concepts traditional to many Indigenous cultures. It is a culturally-specific identity used by some Indigenous people to indicate a person whose gender identity, spiritual identity and/or sexual orientation comprises both male and female spirits.
First time I’ve ever heard of either term, but I’m not Canadian!
For anyone else who was wondering, the 2 in LGBTQ2 apparently stands for “two-spirit”, which is:
First time I’ve ever heard of either term, but I’m not Canadian!
https://www.canada.ca/en/women-gender-equality/free-to-be-me/2slgbtqi-plus-glossary.html