Canada has dispensed a new warning for its LGBT citizens planning to travel to the United States, as anti-LGBT protests has risen by 30-folds last year when compared with 2017, while legal changes mobilized to confine LGBT rights also have significantly increased.
Global Affairs Canada cautioned that certain state laws have dampened on travel, but have not specified where. The warnings issued are usually reserved for regions such as Russia, Egypt and Uganda.
2SLGBTQI+ is a term widely used in Canada for individuals who consider themselves as two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning or intersex. Representatives for Global Affairs Canada indicated to US laws as aiming the transgender community.
They informed CBC News that certain states in the U.S, since the beginning of 2023, have approved laws prohibiting drag shows and confining the transgender community from admission to participate in sporting events and gender-affirming care.
In March, the governor of Tennessee stated laws prohibiting drag performances in the presence of youngsters and limiting medical care for transgender youth.
Two months later, Ron DeSantis the governor of Florida stated bills prohibiting youngsters from going to drag shows, constraining pronoun use in the classrooms and undergoing transgender medical treatments.
Hundreds of similar rules on LGBT matters have been projected in states run by conservatives across the U.S.
The LGBT society’s largest advocacy group in the US, the Human Rights Campaign, informed in June that LGBT Americans are confronted with a state of emergency as states progressively target them with regulations.
On Monday, a painting in Florida devoted to Lyra McKee, a Belfast-born journalist, who was gunned down in 2019, was disfigured with an anti-LGBT graffiti and swastika.
Chrystia Freeland Canadian Deputy PM, informed reporters in Atlantic Canada that experts are employed by the government to locate regions around the world and assess whether they pose any threat to groups of Canadians.
