Converters musicians abolish the dates of American tours due to the bases of Trump’s gender identity

The TT Thomason Us Touring visa does not end until June – but the Canadian pop artist comes out of the festival’s appearance in Belfast, Maine, next month because he does not want to target the border as an unusual man.

Last week, Thomason, 30, who divides his time between Toronto and Walfelville, Nova Scotia, announced that he had left the festival of all roads, which takes place from 16 to 17 May. WIRED tells that he made the decision after vision President Donald TrumpExecutive orders Targeting Transient communityIncluding one who announces that the United States government will only recognize two sexes, males and females. It was increasingly afraid Hear stories to Visitorswe VisasThe applicants are held on the border, including a Vancouver woman Who told the guardian It has been detained by the enforcement of immigration and customs (ICE) for two weeks.

“I only thought if this is happening to the people of independent countries, I am really concerned about what could happen to me,” says Thomason.

It was also announced on Friday that the singer who takes Toronto and Montreal, based in Montreal, a converted man, on Friday that he cancels his spring tour because sex on his passport, male, does not match New rules. Aya Senkler, a London -based musician, told a passing woman, pitchfork You will avoid American offers “until anything changes.” Even Neil Young, a double American Canadian citizen, has He said it is anxious About “prison” when returning to the states, because of his criticism of Trump.

But the decision not to play in America means what is doing income in the tour and the opportunity to build a fan base in the largest music market in the world. Simply put to be directed to Europe or anywhere else abroad, especially for Canadian artists, is an expensive endeavor.

The American Music Federation in the United States and Canada, a union that can submit a federal government to grant the round visas, told Canadian members in Late March The updated immigration base “contradicts our common values. At this time, the United States government is unlikely to put this concerned position.”

Danny Oliva, the entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles Danny Oliva, tells a wireless “there has been a general panic” among his clients in the past few weeks. Oliva, a Thomason lawyer, notes that Canadian musicians who want to play in the United States have two visas, one of which costs up to $ 8,000 and “very stressful”. He says that the treatment times for his customers have jumped from three or four months to eight to 10 months without paying the price of rapid treatment.

He says he is analyzing the risk for the benefit of every customer looking to come to the United States. But he is concerned that the customer visa requests can be rejected on the basis of “distortion or fraud” if the sex in the identification documents they provide does not match the sex appointed at birth. This discovery may lead to a ban from the United States lifelong Unless they successfully submit a concession – an exhausting process.

Despite the headache of obtaining an American visa, there is a reason people do: money and cultural treasury.

“Let’s be real. I mean, many artists find their penetration only if they toured America,” says Court Dal, a Vancouver -based entertainment lawyer. “There are 10 times the population; they are likely to get the press and get attention.”