By Dylan Robertson -CP-Canada’s leading LGBTQ+ advocacy organization is boycotting travel to the U.S. \u2014 and won’t attend an upcoming United Nations event \u2014 in response to concerns about how their members might be treated at the border under the Trump administration. “I don’t think there’s anything more important than safeguarding my staff and our community members, and also sending a strong message to the U.S.,” said Egale Canada head Helen Kennedy. “It was a culmination and an accumulation of legislative changes, rhetoric and discriminatory policies specifically targeting gender-diverse folks that made us make this decision.” U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that states the U.S. only recognizes two genders, male and female, and the U.S. State Department has replaced the acronym LGBTQI with the more limited… <\/p>\n
By Dylan Robertson -CP-Canada’s leading LGBTQ+ advocacy organization is boycotting travel to the U.S. \u2014 and won’t attend an upcoming United Nations event \u2014 in response to concerns about how their members might be treated at the border under the Trump administration. “I don’t think there’s anything more important than safeguarding my staff and our community members, and also sending a strong message to the U.S.,” said Egale Canada head Helen Kennedy. “It was a culmination and an accumulation of legislative changes, rhetoric and discriminatory policies specifically targeting gender-diverse folks that made us make this decision.” U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that states the U.S. only recognizes two genders, male and female, and the U.S. State Department has replaced the acronym LGBTQI with the more limited... <\/p>\n