US trans actress Hunter Schafer, identified for HBO hit present “Euphoria,” has mentioned her passport gender marker was modified to male, slamming the Trump administration which has demonized any recognition of gender variety.
Schafer blamed the insurance policies of US President Donald Trump for the modification of her gender — regardless of having id paperwork marked feminine “coming up on a decade now” — in a TikTok story revealed Thursday night and rebroadcast as a video Friday.
“I filled everything out just like I normally would. I put female and when it was picked up today and I opened it up, they had changed the marker to male,” she mentioned, brandishing her passport and explaining she had needed to renew the doc after it was stolen final 12 months.
Trump in his first days in workplace declared the nation would acknowledge solely two genders — women and men — and has focused transgender folks in a slew of different orders.
According to the State Department, below an govt order on what the Trump administration calls “Gender Ideology Extremism,” the Bureau of Consular Affairs would cease issuing identification paperwork with an “X” marker for non-binary folks.
“We will only issue passports with an M or F sex marker that match the customer’s biological sex at birth,” the web site says.
Schafer mentioned her gender on her delivery certificates hasn’t been modified to feminine, main her to consider that “the agencies who are in charge of passports… are now required to cross reference birth certificates.”
“This is the first time this has happened to me since I changed my gender marker… and I do believe it is a direct result of the administration our country is currently operating under.”
She mentioned she was “shocked” to see the “M” on her passport and that she was spurred to submit about it to “note the reality of the situation and that it is actually happening.”
Despite her issues, Schafer was defiant.
Trans folks “are never going to stop existing. I’m never gonna stop being trans, a letter in a passport can’t change that and fuck this administration,” the actress in her twenties mentioned, talking firmly into the digicam on her telephone.
Transgender rights have turn into a hot-button subject within the United States, regardless of trans folks being a small minority of the inhabitants.
Republicans hammered Democrats on transgender points forward of the 2024 election, capitalizing on a broader tradition battle over LGBTQ rights.
Published – February 22, 2025 06:14 pm IST
