Organizers of WorldPride, a global LGBTQ Pride event series to be held this year in Washington, say they are considering issuing an advisory for transgender people from overseas, citing recent policies put forward by the Trump administration.

“It’s possible that we may actually issue a statement telling trans folks internationally not to come, or if they come, they come at their own risk,” Capital Pride Alliance Executive Director Ryan Bos said this week at a monthly meeting of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.

International travelers are already facing heightened difficulties entering and leaving the country, said Ashley Smith, Capitol Pride Alliance’s board president, and some transgender people from abroad are wary of visiting the U.S. with passports or other identity documents that do not match their sex at birth.

The State Department in January suspended a policy allowing trans,........

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