Hunter Schafer: ‘I Am Never Going to Stop Being Trans. Fuck This Administration’
Schafer posted a TikTok video revealing that, following Donald Trump’s executive order recognizing only two genders, her new passport now lists her gender as male.
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There is no hell hot enough for this administration. On Friday, actress Hunter Schafer posted an eight-minute TikTok explaining what happened with her new passport after President Trump’s day one executive order recognizing only two genders. The new passport lists Schafer’s gender as male.
In the video, Schafer details the impacts of Trump’s executive order for trans people. The Bureau of Consular Affairs has frozen passport applications for gender marker changes or any applications with a gender marker that differs from the applicant’s gender assigned at birth. Schafer admitted she was unsure, at first, what this would look like in practice, since “our president is a lot of talk.” But “today, I saw it on my new passport: male.”
Schafer says her “gender markers were first changed in my teens” and this “hasn’t really been a problem.” Her old passport was set to last until her thirties. But it was recently stolen from a car while she was filming a movie in Barcelona. She got an emergency passport to return to the U.S. and went to the Federal Passport Agency in Los Angeles on Friday to get a new one. “I’ve had to do this one time before, no part of the process was different. I filled everything out just like I normally would,” Schafer said. “I put female, and when it was picked up today and I opened it up, they had changed the marker to male.”
Hunter Schafer reveals that her new passport now lists her sex as male instead of female, following Trump’s instatement: