Elliot Web page and Carly Rae Jepsen have backed an open letter standing in opposition to anti-trans laws in Canada.
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Elliot Web page and Carly Rae Jepsen are amongst greater than 400 artists who’ve backed an open letter standing in opposition to anti-trans laws in Canada.
Led by pop duo Tegan and Sara, by way of their basis, the letter, titled Artists In opposition to Anti-Trans Laws in Canada, highlights how Canada is “not proof against the worldwide assault on the trans group and their entry to inclusive areas, healthcare and freedoms”.
Canadian or Canada-based artists, together with Elliot Web page, Adam DiMarco, BLOND:ISH, Carly Rae Jepsen and Alanis Morissette have backed the letter, which goals to “stand in opposition to these alarming and damaging insurance policies, and name on most people to show their consideration to a rising drawback in our nation”.
Final month Tegan and Sara accepted the Humanitarian Award on the 2024 Juno Awards in Canada, which was introduced to them by The Umbrella Academy star Web page.
In his speech, Web page known as out the “devastating” elimination of LGBTQ+ rights globally.
Printed on Trans Day of Visibility (31 March), the letter goes on to highlight efforts to focus on the trans group in Canada, resembling Danielle Smith’s proposed bans on hormone therapy, together with puberty blockers, and gender-affirming surgical procedure.
Previous to Smith’s proposal, the provinces of New Brunswick and Saskatchewan introduced that parental consent can be wanted by faculties if youngsters below 16 would really like their chosen names and pronouns used.
The coverage was branded “dangerous” and Canadians got here out in pressure to rally behind trans youth and protest in opposition to Invoice 137, often known as the Father or mother’s Invoice of Rights.
The letter provides: “The anti-trans insurance policies taking root in Canada transcend discrimination – they current a transparent threat to the psychological and bodily well-being of trans people all through the nation.”
Web page, who stars in new trans drama Near You, just lately urging the group to combat again in opposition to the the “countless, full-blown lies” about trans lives with data and training.
He advised PinkNews: “For me, with my mother, I’d ship her stuff, articles which she learn. So, in some ways, I feel it’s about sharing the right data, as a result of there are countless, full-blown lies about our lives, our healthcare, simply who we’re.
“That’s one thing I discovered actually, actually useful: sharing the right data to assist educate individuals, whether or not it’s an article or a memoir by a trans individual,” continued Web page, whose personal memoir, Pageboy, was printed final yr.