Copenhagen – The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has changed its travel advice in the United States for transgender people, following other European countries such as Germany and Finland that suggest that they can face difficulties when trying to enter the United States.
He Nordic country He wrote on his website that transgender people must communicate with the United States embassy before traveling to the United States.
“When requesting this or a visa from the United States, there are two gender designations to choose from: man or woman,” said the Danish Travel Advisor in an update on Friday.
“If you have the gender X appointment in your passport, or your gender has changed, it is recommended that you communicate with the United States embassy before traveling to obtain guidance on how to proceed,” said the ministry.
Although the travel notice does not explicitly mention the new administration of the United States, it occurs only a few weeks after President Donald Trump signed An executive order Asking the Federal Government to define sex as only man or woman and to be reflected in official documents such as passports and policies as federal imprisonment.
The United States Department of State has He stopped issuing travel documents with the gender marker “X” Preferred by many non -binary people, who do not identify as strictly men or women. The department also stopped allowing people to change the genre that appears in their passport or obtains new ones that reflect their gender instead of their sex assigned to birth.
The head of the LGBT+ Denmark Transgender Group, Susanne Branner, told Radioiii Danesa Radioiii that her group had communicated with the country’s foreign ministry at the beginning of the week and requested the update of the notice.
She said that there are a few thousand people in Denmark who have changed their legal genre and that they could find unpleasant situations in airports when they try to enter the US. UU. Or they can even be denied the entrance because their passports do not reflect the genre assigned at birth.
“If you are transgender or have an X in your passport, can you risk the entry to be denied? We would like concrete answers to this,” Branner told Radioiii.
Other European countries have also changed their official notices for members of the transgender community in a reflection of the situation in the United States.
He German The Ministry of Foreign Affairs presented a notice earlier this month, saying that “travelers who have gender entry ‘X’ or whose current gender entry differs from their gender entry at birth” to contact a diplomatic mission of the United States in Germany “before entering the country and discovering the applicable entry requirements.”
FinlandHe also advises possible US travelers on their homemark of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that if their “current gender registered in their passport differs from the gender that were assigned to birth, US authorities can deny entry. It is recommended that you consult with the US authorities in advance for the entry requirements.”
