Ava Val transgender comedian had monuments that moved to the United States and visited there, but after visual problems and hostility towards people, she canceled this leg of her route.
Talking with Saskatoon Morning Host Stephanie Massicotte on Thursday Val said that growing up, that she was inspired to the path of the comedy partly because of British sitcom Mr. Bean, And his ability to gather a family – something Val wanted to do during her route.
In June, Val was to visit and live in the United States, but her visa application was suddenly stopped, forcing her to cancel.
“Slowly, when everything began to develop in the current (USA) administration, it seemed that more and more hostility was developing towards trans people,” said Val, who was based in Toronto.
US President Donald Trump declared in its inaugural address On January 20, that “from now on it will be the official policy of the United States government, that there are only two sexes, men and women” and quickly issued executive orders and government changes regarding sex and diversity.
Notes of the Secretary of State Marco Rubio entitled Tips for visa decisions on the executive order 14201: “Keeping men away from women's sports” Which included the directive that “all visas must reflect the gender of the Applicant from birth.”
“Basically, that's it, I just was, I don't know if I will be allowed there at all, so I might as well develop alternative plans,” Val said.
“I do not want to go where nobody wants me. All right, I will do it myself, I will go to Saskatoon, I will compete with Pierre Pilievre,” Val joked The leader of the Conservative Party was to organize a rally In Saskaton the same night as her performance.
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John Hampton, a person of two clergy and general director of Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina, is a double citizen who also experienced the consequences of changes in US administration in sexual policy.
They regularly travel across the border for work and personal reasons, including the opening of the exhibition at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis.
Hampton said that their passport in the USA appeared this year for renewal and tried to extend it earlier.
From 2019, Canadians who do not identify as a woman or man, like Hampton, can mention their gender as “x” on passports. The federal government claims that about 3,600 Canadians have a passport marker.
“I sent it in nice and early, but unfortunately apparently not early enough, because it stayed for a long time,” said Hampton on CBC 306.
Hampton says that when they regained their passport, “X” was changed to “M.”
For the first time they went to the USA with a new passport in February and said that they were feeling fear, I was going to the border, but so far the travels were “perfectly” smooth.