Hunter Schafer, a transgender actress best known for her role on the HBO drama “Euphoria,” posted a video to her TikTok story stating she had to renew her stolen passport, but the passport she received lists her sex as male, which she said was due to President Donald Trump’s executive order defining a person’s gender as either male or female based on what was assigned at birth, Forbes reports.
Schafer said her new passport says “male” despite her selecting “female” while filling out paperwork, and she said all of her previous forms of identification, including passports and driver’s licenses, have said female.
Schafer cited the Bureau of Consular Affairs, the agency that issues passports, which says on its website it will “only issue passports with an M or F sex marker that match the customer's biological sex at birth” and will no longer use the “X” marker for nonbinary people, citing Trump’s day-one executive order that defines sex as either male or female assigned at birth.
The actress criticized the Trump administration, stating she is “never going to stop being trans” and “a letter on a passport can’t change that.”
Schafer said she didn’t post the video to receive consolation, citing her “privilege as a celebrity trans woman who is white,” but to call awareness to “other trans women who this might also be happening to.”
“I don’t give a f— 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 said, adding she will likely have to out herself as trans to border patrol agents when she travels.
Transgender Americans Challenge Trump’s Passport Policy in Court (New York Times)
