The Canadian media reported this week that immigration lawyers and LGBTQIAAP2+ activists have noticed a significant increase in the number of requests for American information that are identified as a transgender who are looking for Canad to the administration of Don or President Trump.
He Globe and mail On Tuesday he cited multiple Canadian lawyers who said they were “covered” for the number of calls from alarm transgender Americans who seek a way of claiming political asylum in Canada. Some calls are also parents whose children will be subject to medical procedures in response to the supposed gender dysmorphia, which the Trump administration has referred as “child sexual mutilation” and promised to eradicate.
A transgender activist accused President Trump of launching an “existential assault” to transgender individuals and condemned the leftist government of the not chosen Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, for not updating the travel notices to warn the transgender Canadians who stay out of the United States.
The report continues to weeks of similar interviews with transgender people who oppose Trump policies that protect girls in school sports from being forced to compete for men and their directives to order US passports and other legal documents of Roegniude, there is non -binary roegniud, “two spirit” and other identities LGBTQqiaap2+. In Canada, these people can identify their gender in government documents as “X”; According to him Globe and mail3,600 people have chosen to use “X” in their passports.
“We are resorting to numerous consultations of US citizens, including many trans people, who no longer feel safe at home,” said immigration lawyer Warda Shazadi Meighen to the Globe and mail. “International refugee protection is a last resort option, awarded only when the country of origin of a person is no longer safe.”
The lawyer said that the Canadian law “certainly includes trans identity” as a potential reason for persecution that could trigger refugees. “If that fear of the voices of the action or inaction of the US State.
Another lawyer, Yameena Ansari, told the newspaper to ask people to identify for their sex in government documents was “a form of violence.” According to reports, Ansari described his legal practice as “American cover” by Americans who seek information on how to move to Canada due to LGBTQIAAP2S+identity.
“Some immigration lawyers have online seminars for LGBTQ communities on the navigation of Canadian immigration to address the volume of consultations.” Globe and mail Noted. “A month last month, which was attended by 62 people, was dominated by questions about the asylum claims of transgender Americans.”
The Canadian government maintains a liberal policy with respect to allowing foreigners to idealize as LGBTQIQIAAP2S+ to move to the country.
“Canada has a proud story of providing protection and helping to reassure the most needy. That includes those in lesbians, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, additional intersex and sexual sexual and gender several (LGBTQI+ Inguins, Notion, Tea of Tea Ottawa have special programs, in conjunction with LGBTQIAAP2S+ Country Advocacios.
Rainbow Railroad, one of those organizations, reported in February a dramatic increase in the requests of Americans who seek to escape the Trump administration policies on the grounds that are equivalent to persecution. Speaking to CBC, a group official said he had documented a 1100 percent increase in resettlement applications in the United States in 2025 so far. On November’s elections, 1,200 Americans communicated with Rainbow Railroad, “most of the requests we have resorted to in a single day from any country,” said the director of Protection initiatives Swathi Sekhar.
Rainbow Railroad has been helping LGBTQIAAP2+ individuals from all over the world to escape the countries that pursue them for almost two decades, traditionally focusing on those attempts to spit the brightness. The group’s website presents a map that highlights some of the most dangerous places in the world for people LGBTQIAAP2+ in the world, with much of Middle East, Russia, Southast Asia and Africa. The United States does not stand out on the map.
In 2019, duration of his first mandate as president, Trump launched a global initiative to pressure countries to decriminalize homosexuality, led by the then Ambassador to Germany and currently sent special presidential for special missions of special missions of special missions of special missions of special.
Rainbow Railroad is a law for Canada to suspend a policy in Canada and the United States has shared its 2004 known as the Safe Third Country agreement. This policy requires that asylum seekers must request asylum in the first country to which they reach – That is, if they arrive first to the United States, they cannot request asylum in Canada.
“LGBTQIA+ people who are looking for asylum are putting themselves under extreme scrutiny, and their right to safety and protection is annoying. Participating, the asylum of trans women -women will experience an acute danger if your country arrested by the defense groups of the application of the application of immigration in February.” For many refugees and transfers, the sender to a third country is its only option to escape violence and persecution of persecution. “.”
The suspension of the third country’s safe agreement would not affect Americans who seek to request asylum in Canada, but rather, people fleeing a third country that first arrive in the United States. It is still an uncle if the Canadian law would allow claims of political asylum of the Americans, he thought that some have already made the movement.
In an interview with the CBC published on Saturday, Juliana Antonyimus, a transgender American, explained the decision to move to Halifax, New Scotland. Antonyimus, originally from Arkansas, fled to Halifax from New York for fear of persecution.
“If I felt like this in what was a safe space, the rules had changed, I recognized that I need to do what I had done was a new safe space,” Antonyimus told the CBC.
The CBC did not clarify if Antonyimus formally sought political asylum in Canada.
Sekhar from Rainbow Road told the CBC in February that, to have a claim, asylum seekers “have to demonstrate that their government is not willing or cannot protect them anywhere in the country. Therefore, the power to show the mystical power” ” ‘and could not find any security by relocating internally first. “
The influx of American requests for information about the search for asylum in Canada followed a dramatic change in immigration policy last year by the ruling liberal party. Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who resigned a decade in power in January, announced in October that his government “would significantly reduce the number of immigrants who come to Canada for the next two years” after the major politics instead.
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