Hunter Schafer Says She Was Issued A Passport With A Male Intercourse Marker, Thanks To Trump Order – The Boston Courier

Hunter Schafer had “a bit of a harsh reality check” because of an upcoming journey.

The “Euphoria” star — who is without doubt one of the most outstanding transgender girls in Hollywood — posted a TikTok story on Friday by which she says her new passport was issued with an ‘M,’ or male, authorized intercourse marker, though she listed her authorized intercourse as feminine on her software.

In a roughly eight-minute video, which was additionally uploaded and shared in full to X, previously Twitter, the “Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” star, 26, famous that her gender has been listed feminine on all her government-issued IDs since she utilized for a driver’s license as a teen. She later famous that she by no means had her gender modified on her beginning certificates, nonetheless.

The swap in Schafer’s gender marker is probably going a results of President Donald Trump’s govt order declaring the federal government will now solely acknowledge “two sexes, male and female.”

White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt advised NOTUS in January that the order is not going to affect passports that had been issued previous to Trump taking workplace. However she additionally mentioned that any passports issued after Trump signed the order, together with these being renewed, will present the marker that displays an individual’s intercourse assigned at beginning.

Schafer mentioned that she lately needed to renew her passport as a result of it was stolen whereas she was working in Barcelona, Spain final yr. Schafer mentioned that because it was stolen she was issued a brief passport, which had a feminine marker, nevertheless it expired. Schafer mentioned she needed to renew her precise passport as a result of she’s touring overseas subsequent week.

“I’m sure most of us remember on, I think, the first day of Trump’s presidency, he signed an executive order to declare only two genders recognized by the state, male and female assigned at birth,” Schafer mentioned within the video.

She appeared to quote a web page from Advocates for Trans Equality advising transgender vacationers: “The Bureau of Consular Affairs has frozen passport applications requesting a gender marker change or renewals or new applications with a gender marker differing from an applicant’s gender assigned at birth.”

A State Division spokesperson declined to touch upon particular person passport functions and referred HuffPost to Trump’s govt order.

The “Kinds of Kindness” actor mentioned that she determined to talk out about her expertise as a result of she needed to make others conscious of “the reality of the situation, in that it is actually happening,” and never as a result of she desires to “create drama or receive consolation.”

“I was shocked, because, I don’t know, I just didn’t think it was actually going to happen,” she mentioned.

Schafer went on to confess among the the reason why she initially thought this new coverage wouldn’t instantly have an effect on her.

“I want to acknowledge my privilege, like not only as a celebrity trans woman who is white, and thin, and can adhere to contemporary beauty standards, and I can participate in all of that, and I ‘pass.’ And it still happened,” Schafer mentioned.

Schafer went on to say that she personally doesn’t “give a fuck that they put a ‘M’ on my passport.”

“It doesn’t change really anything about me or my transness. However, it does make life a little harder,” Schafer mentioned.

She continued, “It’s going to come along with having to out myself to, like, border patrol agents and that whole gig, much more often than I would like to or is really necessary.”

Schafer additionally acknowledged that though she’s making assumptions about what her private expertise could also be like, different trans folks could have related or much more excessive points whereas touring internationally.

“Thinking about other trans women who this might also be happening to, or other trans people,” Schafer mentioned, “the list only gets longer, as far as the intricacies that come along with the difficulty that this brings into real life shit.”

Schafer tried to conclude her video on a barely extra constructive be aware — although she bought in a single final jab at Trump.

“Trans people are beautiful,” Schafer mentioned. “We are never going to stop existing, I am never going to stop being trans. A letter on a passport can’t change that. And fuck this administration.”