For our physical safety: Why some Americans are looking for asylum in Canada – New Brunswick [Video]

Americans Prudence Donovan and Mason Gaston recently travelled to Ottawa from their home in the state of Maine.

But it wasn’t for tourism.

They were looking to move to Canada, and potentially claiming asylum because they’re both transgender.

“For our physical safety, we really feel that, especially raising a family, Canada would be a safer placescronym for that,” Donovan said.

The family says the political climate in their home country has raised concerns, specifically the direction the Donald Trump administration has taken on LGBTQ2 rights and policies.

In his first months back in office after his re-election, Trump signed an executive order aimed at slashing federal supports for gender transitions for people under the age of 19, and an order requiring the federal government to define sex as only male or female.

The administration also moved to bar transgender people from military service.

“I think we understand that it might be a choice between uprooting ourselves or ending …