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Canadians with an X gender marker will now have to select male or female on Nexus travel cards after Trump order (www.theglobeandmail.com)

submitted 2 months ago by patatas@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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[-] lemonySplit@lemmy.ca 87 points 2 months ago

Who tf is still going to that shithole country?

[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 31 points 2 months ago

My roommate because his lover is there. Insane risk I think, given she's trans.

[-] lemonySplit@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

Won't be long till they can seek asylum in Canada at the rate things are going

[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 20 points 2 months ago

Not sure how much of an asylum that is in a decade given our close proximity and similar culture rot.

[-] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

The Americans are helping us distance ourselves from them daily with tariffs. In 10 years will we even see American movies and other cultural media in Canada?

[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

I do hope you're right but I'm also planning for the worse outcome just in case.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Canada was one of the few countries to see LGBT acceptance increase.

[-] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

Wealthy boomers.

[-] cyborganism@piefed.ca 11 points 2 months ago

Some people don't really have a choice because of their job. That's in big part who the Nexus card is for.

[-] lemonySplit@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago

There's no way on gods green earth my company could convince me to go to Amerikkka. I'd quit same day. There is always a choice.

[-] cyborganism@piefed.ca 12 points 2 months ago

Me neither. I was asked earlier this year and I said hell no. I'm not setting foot there anytime soon.

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 months ago

Land of the free!

free to be persecuted for just existing.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 20 points 2 months ago

Canadan siblings: you are witnessing the continuing lack of courage and action from the people of the USA. Don't follow our example! Your government should rediscover backbone for your people, rather than strengthening the liplock on the backsides of billionaires and multinational megacorporations; but they won't without direct action and constant, loud, vigorous, united expression of "absolutely not!” PLEASE protect your sovereignty, and set the example for us that we should have been setting for you, for decades.

Love,

[-] Gork@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's a Nexus card, not a Nemaleus card or a Nefemaleus car.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Took me a sec 👏

[-] patatas@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Carney govt throwing trans people under the bus so that business travellers can skip the line really says "ally"!

[-] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 22 points 2 months ago

The Nexus program is more run by the US than us. They really get to call the shots on it.

[-] patatas@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

The alternatives, then, are as follows: ignore human rights for trans and non-binary folks, or cancel this agreement.

I'm kind of a fan of human rights, personally

[-] Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Carney is throwing everyone under the bus for his corporate buddies like the concentration camp folks Garda world.

[-] cyborganism@piefed.ca 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He's also throwing the environment under the bus to make Danielle Smith happy by working on an oil pipeline to sell more oil to Europe. (Who are working on reducing their dependency on oil already...)

We already can't breathe here in Montréal with the amount of smog we have. But nooo. Gotta keep the "economy" rolling.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

The Mexico filter is real, you just gotta come to Montreal to witness it.

Fucking hell was that a miserable week to need oxygen.

[-] cyborganism@piefed.ca 3 points 2 months ago

I had to search what the Mexico filter was lol! But yeah. It's fucking real. The light is orange. Even in peak daylight. The past couple of weekends, friends and I have gone out and our throats were straight up burning. I also have asthma, which has worsened since catching covid and the damn super-flu that's been going around, and my lungs are so congested. My medication can't keep up. I'm fucking dying over here.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

I don't have asthma, and the air was heavy and breathing was laborious.

The noon sun was red, you can't make this shit up.

[-] idarknight@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

That was Alberta the last couple of summers - Bladerunner Skies...

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

😑

I'm so tired of this shit.

[-] patatas@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

yeah it really sucks :(

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 12 points 2 months ago

Sorry guys. I was in Montreal for vacation a few weeks ago. I really enjoyed it. You don't deserve this.

[-] Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

One of my kids is developing into a wonderful person who is not cis gendered. This type of news only makes me want to change my marker to X. If more of us could agree to do this, regardless of our personal gender, then gender conformity wouldn't even be a thing.

Well in 'murica it still would be.

[-] patatas@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Yep I am seriously considering doing this now also. AFAIK the X means 'unspecified' so it's not as if a cis person using it is somehow appropriating an identity, right? That was my main hesitation

[-] Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't view it as appropriation. Do what you want

[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

USA is just bursting at the seams with intolerance and abject cowardice. What a clown car country.

[-] patatas@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

And speaking of cowardice, unfortunately for us Canadians, our own government is just rolling over.

[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I'm not terribly sure how much that is going to matter given the current disposition of most of us towards American bullshittery, and by that I mean to say that bureaucratic cowardice might play into their hands, but the people of Canada aren't going to.

I also still have enough faith in our version of the democratic process to believe that if the current government's posture was (or becomes) wholly incongruent with that of the body politic, we'd rearrange it next election. The fact is that Carney's professed positions, at the time of the election at least, were aligned with ours moreso than the angry guy who lost his seat. I'm certainly less than impressed with what's taken place since, but don't know what I should have expected. This season's script has been all over the place and the writing is awful.

Reflecting on this all, maybe the takeaway is that subconsciously, who I expected better from was the Americans, and that ought to be a lesson and a loud wake up call to us all.

[-] patatas@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

This new rule violates the human rights of trans and non-binary people. That's not something that is up for a majority vote. Human rights are non-negotiable, yet our government is not treating them as such.