Scores of transgender Americans seeking route to Canada, including through asylum claims

Report: Canada's Immigration Lawyers 'Overwhelmed' with Transgender Asylum Requests from U.S.

Transgender Americans are flooding Canada with requests for information on how to move there, outlets reported.

Countries Should Accept Transgender Refugees From The United States

Photo by ev on UnsplashErin In The Morning is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a subscriber.The situation for transgender people in the United States is unraveling at an alarming pace. Teachers now face criminal investigation threats for the basic act of respecting a student’s name. Medical care for both transgender youth and adults is being gutted, with entire states seeing widespread s…

At least one Jewish American traded Trump 2.0 for Winnipeg winter. Will others follow?

Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Andrew Lapin reports from south of the border for JTA. A year ago, Sarah Resnick had a good job and a Jewish community she liked in New York. She gave all that up to move to Winnipeg, a city where she knew nobody, in a country where she was not a citizen, in a climate whose extremes she was not used to. “Do I prefer walking the dog in negative-40? No,” Resnick recalled of her first winter in Winnipeg. “The life that I’m…

Eyeing an escape route in the Trump era, these American Jews are moving to Canada

A year ago, Sarah Resnick had a good job and a Jewish community she liked in New York. She gave all that up to move to Winnipeg, a city where she knew nobody, in a country where she was not a citizen, in a climate whose extremes she was not used to. “Do I prefer walking the dog in negative-40? No,” Resnick recalled of her first winter in Winnipeg. “The life that I’m building here is different than my life in New York, but it’s just as fulfilling…

Scores of transgender Americans seeking route to Canada, including through asylum claims

Ottawa under pressure to follow European countries’ lead and issue travel advisory about transgender Canadians visiting the U.S.

Cosplay Dystopia: Trans Individuals Are Seeking ‘Asylum’ In Canada

Immigration attorneys in Canada are being “overwhelmed” with requests for information on how to seek asylum from transgender identifying individuals in the US, according to a report.The Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail reports that alarmed alphabet people are looking to be granted political asylum as if it’s a hostile dystopian takeover a la The Handmaid’s Tale.“We are receiving numerous inquiries from U.S. nationals, including many trans i…