Trump: Denmark emits a travel warning for the United States for transgender people | International

THE Offensive of the trans people of Donald Trump It motivated the fact that the Denmark Foreign Ministry has issued a travel notice to the citizens of that group that have in their plans to visit the United States. The Republican genre policies, which his first day as president ordered that Washington recognized only “Two sexes, male and female“, They raised Copenhagen’s concern, in the fear that these travelers can face problems with their documents when they enter the American country. This suspicion is shared by Helsinki, London and Berlin, who have issued warnings similar to their citizens.

The Danish government has directed their opinion to the citizens that “have the nomination of gender X” or have “changed genre” in the passport. In particular, he recommends that “contact the United States Embassy before traveling to get directions on how to proceed”, according to the Ministry’s website. However, it is not clear what type of advice can make sure that the American embassy can give travelers, Reuters. Denmark was The first European country In allowing transgender people to change their official documents without mediating a diagnosis or a sex reassignment intervention: their citizens can make this modification since 1 September 2014.

The US policy has organized, on the contrary, to implement changes “to request that the identification documents issued by the government, including passports, visas and global entrance cards, precisely reflect the sex of the owner”. THE Executive orderAdopted under the title of “defending women from the extremism of gender ideology and restore biological truth”, forced the authorities to issue passports in accordance with the genre assigned to the time of birth. The application of this strategy has reached a special notoriety with The case of the Trans Hunter Schafer actressThat after changing the passport received a document that identified it as a man: “We will never stop existing and I will never stop being trans, a letter of the passport cannot change it,” said the actress at the end of February.

The warning issued by Denmark follows the notices issued by other European countries. Finland has updated its needs on March 14, to prevent its citizens that “if the applicant’s current sex in his passport is different from his sex confirmed at birth, the US authorities can refuse” to allow their admission. Berlin insisted on travelers that “the final decision on the fact that a person can enter the United States falls on their border authorities,” said the spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry on Wednesday. London issued a similar warning Thursday, in which he reminds the British that “They can be arrested or detained if they break the rules“Admission to the United States.

These decisions are known shortly after the refusal of American migratory agents to allow The entrance of a French scientist At the beginning of March presumably for criticizing President Trump in private conversations. The authorities confiscated their cell phone and, after entering their private files and chats, denied admission permit. The US authorities denied that this Friday is denied the entry for this reason and attributed that decision that the researcher would violate a confidentiality agreement that he had signed with the National Labor of Los Alamos, in which he investigated nuclear weapons.

Copenhagen’s announcement was disclosed in a moment of tension of bilateral relations with the United States due to the repeated declarations of the Republican on his intention of Annexation to your country the island of GreenlandAn autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.