Dr. Jesse Krikorian decided it was time to leave his country after U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive orders that target transgender Americans in January.

The doctor, who belongs to the LGBTTQ+ community, was looking for a new place to call home and allow him to care for patients.

“It was becoming very complicated to establish a career doing the type of community-underserved work that I wanted to do,” he said Thursday.

Legislators in several U.S. states have introduced hundreds of bills that target transgender, non-binary and gender-expansive youth’s access to age-appropriate, medically necessary care.

The single, 36-year-old was looking into New Zealand or Canada when a friend suggested he check out Winnipeg.

He found a website that listed a position at Klinic Community Hea

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