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Canada Travel Advisory Warns Citizens About America’s ‘Anti-LGBTQ’ Laws

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Brooke Mallory of OAN
11:29am – Wednesday, August 30, 2023

The Canadian government has advised Canadian travelers traveling to the United States that many of the newly approved provincial bills “targeting LGBTQ people” could lead to discrimination and harassment.

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in W.ednesdbey updateCanada advises self-identifying LGBTQ citizens to “check relevant provincial and local laws” before traveling to the United States, stating that “some provinces have laws and regulations that may affect 2SLGBTQI+ persons.” We are making policies,” he warned.

However, the latest travel notice does not mention specific states that LGBTQ visitors should avoid.

Travelers were also urged to “take the same precautions they would take in Canada” when visiting the United States.

The St. Petersburg-based LGBTQ rights group Equality Florida similarly issued its own travel warning in April, urging domestic and international travelers to visit Florida as a result of the recent epidemic. “It may not be a safe place to visit or live in,” it warned. A law that “targets LGBTQ people, limits access to reproductive medicine, and relaxes firearms controls.”

In addition, the Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization, issued a “national emergency” to LGBTQ people in the United States in June, citing the passage of laws that discriminated against LGBTQ people across the country. Situation” declared. People, especially “transgender youth,” the group posted.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters that the country’s new travel alert was not politically driven and that Canadians should stay as safe as possible when traveling abroad. He asserted that he intended to secure

“As someone who has the true privilege of serving as Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, I know that our travel advisories are very professional,” Freeland said. “There are experts in the government whose job it is to look around the world closely and monitor for particular dangers to certain groups of Canadians,” she added.

“That’s their job and it’s the right thing to do.”

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