Tens of thousands of Canadians are joining a call for the Canadian government to help transgender and non-binary people fearing the outcome of anti-LGBTQ legislation gaining ground in the United States and other countries.
Cait Glasson, an activist in Waterloo, Ont., launched an online petition to the House of Commons, asking the federal government to extend the right to claim asylum “by reason of eliminationist laws in their home countries, whatever country that may be.”
She said friends in the U.S. are already preparing for the possibility that they will have no choice but to leave the country.
“I know a lot of
