President Trump agreed on Friday to an updated trade agreement with Canada and Mexico that includes aspirational language encouraging member states to adopt policies against LGBT discrimination in the workforce — although it has been watered down from the initial proposal. Colin Shonk, a spokesperson for the Canadian embassy in the United States, told the Washington Blade on Friday the language is in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement moments after Trump signed it at an event in Buenos Aires with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.

CORRECTED: LGBT provisions watered down in Trump’s USMCA deal