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Toronto: Canada has warned LGBTQ travellers of the risks of visiting the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n Ottawa\u2019s latest travel advisory released on Tuesday warns people who identify as 2SLGBTQI+ \u2013 referring to two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning or intersex \u2013 to check the laws of the state they are visiting.<\/p>\n \u201cSome states have enacted laws and policies that may affect 2SLGBTQI+ persons,\u201d Global Affairs Canada said in its advisory. \u201cCheck relevant state and local laws.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked by reporters about the updated advice, Canada\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said the government has experts on hand to \u201cmonitor whether there are particular dangers to particular groups of Canadians\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery Canadian government \u2026 needs to put at the centre of everything we do, the interest and the safety of every single Canadian and every single group of Canadians,\u201d Freeland added. \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re doing now\u201d.<\/p>\n Asked about Canada\u2019s updated travel advisory, a US State Department spokesperson said: \u201cThe United States is committed to promoting tolerance, inclusion, justice, and dignity while helping to advance the equality and human rights of LGBTQI+ persons. We all must continue to do this work with our like-minded partners not only in the United States, not only in Canada, but throughout the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Dozens of US states have recently passed laws that advocates say curtail LGBTQ rights, including restrictions on gender transitions for minors, prohibitions on transgender people participating in women\u2019s sport and bans on drag shows in public.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Toronto: Canada has warned LGBTQ travellers of the risks of visiting the United States. Ottawa\u2019s latest travel advisory released on Tuesday warns people who identify as 2SLGBTQI+ \u2013 referring to two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning or intersex \u2013 to check the laws of the state they are visiting. \u201cSome states have enacted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6662,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions\/6662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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