Canadian musician Bells Larsen said on Friday that he has to cancel his upcoming U.S. tour dates over visa issues stemming from the Trump administration’s gender requirements targeting trans individuals.

Larsen, a trans man, shared a post on Instagram saying that the American Federation of Musicians had emailed him this week, informing him that he was “no longer able to apply for a Visa because US immigration now only recognizes identification that corresponds with one’s assigned sex at birth.”

“To put it super plainly, because I’m trans (and have an M on my passport), I can’t tour the States,” Larsen wrote. “I hesitate to include a ‘right now’ or an anymore at the end of my previous sentence, because — in this sociopolitical climate — I truly don’t know which phrasing holds more truth. The irony of this announcement falling exactly two weeks before the release of my album,...