Travel warning
Canada warns its people against traveling to the US, where LGBTQMNROZDJFRT people are routinely genocided in the street.
Canada has issued a new travel warning to its LGBT citizens planning to visit the United States.
Anti-LGBT protests in the US rose 30-fold last year compared with 2017, while legal moves to restrict LGBT rights are on the rise.
That’s a lie though. The “legal moves” in question are mostly about people who claim to be the opposite sex, not about LGB people.
Global Affairs Canada warned that some state laws may affect them on their travels, but did not specify where.
Such warnings are usually reserved for countries such as Uganda, Russia or Egypt.
Which is the point. It’s meant to be insulting.
Mind you, the US has become all too much like Russia since 2017, but that’s because of Trump, it’s not because of some imaginary war on LGB people.
“Some states have enacted laws and policies that may affect 2SLGBTQI+ persons. Check relevant state and local laws,” reads its US travel advice page.
The term 2SLGBTQI+ is widely used in Canada for people who consider themselves two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning or intersex.
A spokesperson for Global Affairs Canada pointed to US laws targeting the transgender community. “Since the beginning of 2023, certain states in the US have passed laws banning drag shows and restricting the transgender community from access to gender-affirming care and from participation in sporting events,” they told CBC News.
So how is that going to affect people visiting from Canada? And why talk about in connection with “2SLGBTQI+ persons” as opposed to trans persons?
In March, Tennessee’s governor signed laws banning drag performances in front of children and restricting medical treatment for transgender youth.
The BBC keeps repeating that lie. The law doesn’t “restrict medical treatment” for kids who think they’re trans, it restricts novel, controversial, arguably harmful interventions that fiddle with kids’ sexual development.
Two months later, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed bills banning children from undergoing transgender medical treatments or going to drag shows, and restricting pronoun use in classrooms.
A little better, but only a little. The “treatments” aren’t medical and they aren’t treatments as commonly understood. The “restricting pronoun use” is absurd too. Legislators aren’t telling teachers to stop using pronouns.
The truth is, trans ideology and the practices that stem from it are so ridiculous that they can’t be reported on honestly without making it clear how ridiculous they are, so news outlets end up just lying about them.
I don’t suppose any country will issue a warning to its gender-critical citizens regarding travel to Canada?
Or Scotland or West Yorkshire?
Oh, I dunno, the rightoids might be only in the beginning stages of their renewed war on the gays, but it’s definitely happening and is the primary goal of their anti-trans crusade (the medical stuff not withstanding). They’re already making inroads into refusing public accomodations for one thing… But fuck Canada’s ROFLWTFBBQ nonsense…
BK @3 — huh?
Lady Mondegreen @4:
BKiSA is saying something I have–that the reason the GOP in general, and MAGAts in particular, are pushing their opposition to trans excesses has absolutely nothing at all to do with them hating those excesses, but rather, they see it as a way to undo various wins, including marriage equality, on LGB rights (and, frankly, women’s rights). Basically, like the proverbial stopped clock, they are ‘right’, but only for the wrong reason.
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Also, this is my standard reminder to all that “Two-Spirit” is particularly absurd as part of the alphabet soup mix–it’s not an actual Native American/First Nations term, it was created by a dude as white as me to make it easier to lump in dozens of different (mostly ritual and religious) traditions from different tribes, and virtually no actual members of the tribes in question use the term at all. Instead, it’s usually touted by white folks wanting to seem ‘deep’ and ‘spiritual’ and ‘non-colonial’. So it’s literally an imperialist term that is then being appropriated by the colonialist descendants, putting it around the level of the Washington Redskins on the racist language scale. Only this one is done entirely by ostensibly woke progressives. The irony meter, she canna take no more, Captain!
That’s the bunny… and the progs are providing them an excellent smokescreen in the process…
Thanks for the information on “Two-Spirit” Freemage – I’ve hated it all along so it’s good to know it’s fake.
Freemage #5
I would really like to have a link about that that I can post if the whole 2 spirit thing comes up elsewhere.