The prominent LGBTQ+ rights organization Egale Canada will boycott events in the U.S. in protest of the Trump administration’s continued assault on the transgender community.

“After deep consideration, we have decided not to engage in-person in this year’s Commission on the Status of Women or any other UN, OAS (Organization of American States) or global convergings, including WorldPride, taking place in the United States in the foreseeable future,” a statement from the group reads.

WorldPride, which drew five million attendees to its biannual gathering in New York in 2023, is slated to take place in Washington DC at the end of May.

Egale Canada also withdrew from in-person participation at a meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women at United Nations headquarters in New York in March, where it planned to discuss LGBTQ+-related issues.

The group pointed to threats at the border as the primary reason for their action.

“This decision is foremost based on the need to safeguard our trans and nonbinary staff who would face questionable treatment at land and aviation borders to attend such convenings, and to stand in solidarity with global colleagues who are experiencing similar fear around entry to the U.S.,” the statement continues.

The U.S. State Department will no longer allow gender marker changes on U.S. passports and has halted issuing travel documents with the “X” gender marker preferred by many nonbinary people.

On the department’s website, references to transgender people have been scrubbed, with information for “LGBTQI+” travelers replaced with the acronym “LGB”, cleaving transgender and intersex people from the larger LGBTQ+ community.

The erasure follows Trump’s “gender ideology” executive order, which directed the Departments of State and Homeland Security “to require that government-issued identification documents, including passports, visas, and Global Entry cards” reflect people’s sex “at conception.”

Last Friday, the ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of seven people unable to obtain passports that match their gender identity following Trump’s directive.

How that directive and Trump’s “gender ideology” order will affect trans and nonbinary people seeking entry to the U.S. remains so far unclear. If a traveler’s federally-issued identity documents do not match their state-issued documents (such as a driver’s license), the mismatch could result in harassment or discrimination by travel security agents or airline workers, the LGBTQ+ advocacy organization Immigration Equality has said.

Egale Canada also cited other threats Trump has made targeting Canada for their boycott decision, including his proposed 25% tariff on Canadian goods entering the U.S. The threats have encouraged some Canadians to consider boycotting U.S. goods, services and travel plans in retaliation. 

“It is also founded in the unique situation that has been thrust on Canadians (and citizens of other countries) regarding economic warfare and threats to our national sovereignty,” the group said. “We cannot in good conscience engage in a process of disentangling our organization from the U.S. goods and services… and then proceed to travel to the U.S.”

Trump has trolled Canada about annexing the country as America’s fifty-first state, an idea he reiterated in a Super Bowl interview with Fox News on Sunday.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday called Trump’s threat “a real thing.”