Expanding families are considering our left after Trump’s re -election

Barbara Fowler has a home bag in her car box. In this, the documents of her family, fireplaces, clothes, medicines, and home address in Canada – ready, must need her family to flee from their country.

Fowler lives in the United States.

Her daughter is one of the 1.6 million American citizens who are considered transgender – one in five of them between the ages of 13 and 17 years, According to the Williams Institute, the Kalifornia University of thought reservoir in Los Angeles.

Donald Trump’s re -election as an unusual anxiety.

“I cry, get angry, and carry a lot of fear for my family,” said Fowler, who asked CBC News not to use her real name, location or daughter’s name. “I don’t know with this administration what will happen.”

Fowler, like many parents of transgender children in the United States, was reeling after Trump took office a few weeks ago. In his opening speech, the president said: “As of today, it will be from now on the official policy of the United States government that there are only two types of sexes: males and females.”

The statement makes illegal for sexually transgender Americans a mark on their passports and other documents. The brand was previously allowed to know that they are non -dual or between transgender or non -identical nationalities while their documents pass the update to reflect the confirmed sexes.

In a series of executive orders signed in his early days as president, Trump also stopped financing for sure gender health care and command federal employees to remove favorite pronouns from their signatures, and measures that may enter into force as soon as possible.

“My daughter is beautiful, and she has great friends, and she plays Clarinette, she is very happy,” said Fowler. “Now we are in a state of forgetfulness, because we do not know whether it will be able to continue to obtain the medical care you need to move or use the bathroom in its school that you feel comfortable.”

Fowler says that her daughter came out to her and her husband at the age of eleven, and told them that she did not feel comfortable in her body. Fowler admits that she fought with the revelation at first and cried for several months, knowing that the road will be forward will be difficult for her daughter. But her lack of support was never an option.

“We have always told her that if she changed her opinion, we will understand,” Fowler said. “But she never hesitated. I only knew who was and her depth, we did it too.”

The clinic is decided in the Middle West, where the daughter of Fowler is currently receiving care, how if she will continue to work as soon as government financing is withdrawn. Meanwhile, Fowler has identified a clinic in Canada that can treat her daughter, if it is about it.

Fowler is not the only American father of a transformed child who is considering moving to Canada.

The Canadian Law Office received dozens of calls per day

Joycna Kang, a Toronto lawyer, says it has since the opening, has made dozens of calls from the transsexual Americans who inquired about how to move here.

Kang said: “Most of them are afraid, and they wonder whether they can demand resorting here,” Kang said. Usually, these allegations were difficult, because what you have to prove is that the state is unwilling or unable to protect you and that there is no place in your country you can go and live safely. Now, with these changes that were present and these orders that were passed, I think We see a much clearer picture of the state (the United States) is the agent of persecution. “

A year and a half ago, Kelly, who also asked CBC not to use his title, moved her family of six from Florida to Minnesota because of her fears of the safety of her 22 -year -old transient son, first. After she settled in her new community, she is now afraid to move again, this time outside the country, and she looked at Canada as a possibility.

Kelly said: “It is a shock to be uprooted from everything I knew.” “Children have made friends. They have entered their activities. They settle, and so on, the election night, my 11 -year -old child begins to cry and she is like,” does this mean that we “re -move again?”

Kelly and the first activist in society, both are committed to improving the lives of members of the LGBTQ community where they live. Kelly says if her son is unable to receive the hormonal therapy medications he needs, she will not hesitate to transfer her family again. The fact that she even thinks about moving again was shocked even.

“How is this the United States of America?” Kelly asked. “Words come out of my mouth and in my head, this cannot be real, and this cannot be true. It is very strange … the most powerful country in the world and its citizens looking for asylum in other countries.

Stuck

Americans, who are already living in Canada, are affected by the president’s orders towards transit society. Those who live here who do not have yet to fear the sexes who are emphasizing their passports that crossing the border may constitute a problem.

Elliot Doveal is an Arkansas transient man who currently lives in London, Onton. He moved here in 2016 to marry his wife. He was not home to seeing his family for more than five years because his passport still lists his gender as a female, although he presents and lives as males.

“The delivery of my travel passport to the border guards is terrifying.” “I will feel terrifying that I will turn into a secondary interrogation and I must go to the immigration area, although I am still an American citizen, and they will ask me even the bone. I don’t think I will be able to deal with it, to be honest.”

Duffal has siblings that he has not seen for years. The wedding of his brother missed the births of many daughters and sons of his brother due to fears of crossing the border.

His mother is now sick, but she is very afraid that Doufal will visit her.

He said, “My mother, you want me to come desperate.” “We will try to make it for Christmas, we all. She said:” Don’t come. “This is difficult.

Kang says that people like Duval have anxiety.

“When we talk about the Canadians with the X mark on their passport in an attempt to cross into the United States, we really don’t know how it looks like it.” “We don’t know if this means only increasing the scrutiny on the border or if that means refusing to enter or potentially confiscate these documents.”

Duffal is also afraid that he will have to drive in some of the states where the bathroom bills will make it illegal to use a men’s toilet.

“If I was to use the bathroom in Arkansas and there is a minor – so anyone under 16 years of age – there at the same time, you can arrest me, put in prison for 30 days, a fine of $ 1500, then I” I must regist For the rest of my life. “

Duvall is simply not ready to bear this danger.

Fowler and Kelli are also awaiting knowing how Trump’s executive orders will directly affect their lives. Both say they will remain in the United States as long as their children get the health care they need and are not in danger.

“At the end of the day, you just want your child to be happy and healthy.” “This is what every father wants, and we do not disagree.”