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Refugee advocates want Canada to make exemption for U.S. transgender asylum claims (www.thecanadianpressnews.ca)
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[–] 46 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Unfortunately, Pierre Poilievre just said in an interview that he doesn't see anything wrong with Trump's executive order because there are only two genders.

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    • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Excellent idea

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    [+] -42 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Not if they can't provide evidence of physical violence. Negative comments and mockery does not rise to the level of orders for being hunted for execution like some opposing political people or religious people had their families killed for not bowing to government system and surviving members had to flee country before they end up dead like their family.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Gauri Sreenivasan, co-executive director of the Canadian Council for Refugees, said the orders will harm transgender people who are seeking to make an asylum claim in the United States.

    Under Trump's policies for example, a transgender woman could be placed in a detention facility with male detainees.

    That obviously puts trans asylum seekers at risk of violence.

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  • [+] -21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If they break the law. So Transgender criminals. We don't see yet people being put in jail for being transgender. If that is happening then yes we can revisit the question but it is not happening.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So harming criminals is okay, got it. Shall we reinstate the age-old tradition of cutting off thieves' hands? And you haven't even addressed the difference between being charged with a crime and being convicted, both of which can land you in jail.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Jail vs Prison.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    That's correct. You were the one talking about criminals in jail, which would be reserved for minor crimes/sentences or people awaiting trial (not that that precludes violence from other inmates). So which are you talking about?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    (That was my first post on the thread. I was just making sure there was the clarification of the two locations and the innocent people would be in jail, where prison are for those convicted.)

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Yeah and women have to be on their death bed to justify an abortion, and lots of people got Covid anyway so why bother with masks?

    Oh and Musk didn’t do a Nazi salute it was a Roman salute.

    Did I miss anything?

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