The Transgender Comedian Ava Val was staring to move to the United States and travel there, but after facing visa problems and a growing hostility towards trans people, he canceled that leg of his tour.
Talk with Saskatoon tomorrow Host Stephanie Massicotte on Thursday, Val said that while growing up to go along the path of comedy partly due to British comedy Mr. Bean, And his ability to unite his family, something that Val was interested in doing in his tour.
This June, Val was scheduled to travel and live in the United States, but her visa request remained suddenly, which forced her to cancel.
“Slowly as things began to develop in the current [U.S.] The administration seemed that more and more hostility was developing towards trans people, “Val said, based in Toronto.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, declared in his inaugural speech on January 20 that “hereinafter will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genres, men and women”, and quickly issued executive orders and changes in government policies on gender and diversity.
Those who included the memorandum of the Secretary of State for Marco Rubio entitled Guide for Visas Judgers in Executive Order 14201: “Keep men out of women’s sports,” which covered the directive that “all visas must reflect the sex of a applicant at birth.”
“That is essentially the point where I thought, I don’t know if I am even allowed to be there, so I could do alternative plans,” said Val.
“I don’t want to go where nobody loves me. Well, I will do it alone. I will go to Saskatoon. I will compete against Pierre Poilievre,” Val joked, as the leader of the conservative party was ready to celebrate a demonstration in Saskatoon the same night as his performance.
Art Gallery CEO passport altered
John Hampton, a two spirit and CEO of the Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina, is a dual citizen who has also experienced ramifications of the changes of the administration of the United States to gender policy.
They travel regularly through the border for work and personal reasons, even recently for the opening of an exhibition at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis.
Hampton said his American passport was renewal this year and tried to renew it early.
Since 2019, Canadians who do not identify as women or men, such as Hampton, can list their gender as “X” in their passports. The federal government says that some 3,600 Canadians have the score in their passports.
“I sent that in Nice and early, but unfortunately apparently it is not early enough because it clung for quite some time,” Hampton said in CBC’s 306.
Hampton says that when they recovered their passport, the “X” had been changed to an “M.”
They made their first trip to the United States with the new passport in February and said they felt fear of the border, but until now the trips have been “perfectly” soft.
