Transgender actor and star of the HBO series Euphoria, Hunter Schafer, revealed that her new passport was issued with male gender markers for an executive order signed by President Donald Trump. did.
Schafer, 26, posted a video on social media detailing how his passport was stolen while filming in Spain. After receiving her emergency passport, she later had to apply for a new permanent passport in Los Angeles. Schafer, who transitioned to a woman when she was a teenager, said her original passport identified her as a woman, but the new passport she received marked her as a man.
Schafer said he didn't post videos to “create drama,” “thrilling things,” or “consolation,” but rather the value of “the reality of the situation and it's actually happening.” Because I thought there was.
“Trans people are beautiful. We're never going to stop being. I'm not going to stop being a trance,” she said in the video. “Letters and passports cannot change that, and this administration.”
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Hunter Schafer arrives at the Film Independence Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California on Saturday, February 22nd. Schafer has issued a video revealing that her new passport marked her gender as a man. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Trump has signed an executive order to “defend women from gender ideological extremism and restore biological truth to the federal government.” The order requires the federal government to only recognize two genders, male and female, based on the invariant biological characteristics that must be reflected in official documents such as passports.
The Department of State, responsible for passports, will no longer issue passports with “X” markers that are available since 2021 and do not respect requests to change gender markers between “M” and “F.”
Under Trump's executive order, official documents, such as passports, must recognize only two genders, male and female, based on their immutable biological characteristics. (Getty Images, file via Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg)
Schafer admitted the executive order in her Tiktok video. And today I saw it,” Schafer said, lifting up her new passport page with an “M” marker.
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The 26-year-old said she has female gender markers on her license and passport since she was a teenager, but she realized she hadn't revised her birth certificate.
“Nothing changes about me or my transness, but it makes my life a little more difficult,” Schafer said in the video.
According to her biological sex, trans actress Hunter Schafer has denounced the Trump administration after a new executive order required her to classify her passport as a man's “M.” (Stefan Card Dinar – Corvis/Corvis, File via Getty Images)
“Trans people are beautiful. We will never stop being. I will not stop being trans. Letters and passports cannot change that,” she concluded.
Seven people, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, have already filed lawsuits claiming that the policy violates privacy and the right to first amendment.
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The ACLU says it has been contacted by more than 1,500 trans people or families.
Louis Casiano and the Associated Press of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
