Hunter Schafer has spoken out about the “harsh reality” of Donald Trump‘s anti-trans executive order, revealing her new passport now lists her gender as ‘Male’.
Trump’s executive order declares that the US government will only recognise two genders: male and female.
In a series of TikTok posts, Schafer, best-known for her roles in HBO‘s Euphoria and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, explained her situation while also sharing her fears over the difficulties fellow trans individuals are likely to face as a result of the order.
“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 said in the video. “As a result of this, which I wrote down because I want to get it right, the Bureau of Consular Affairs has frozen passport applications requesting a gender marker change or renewals or new applications with a gender marker deferring from an applicant’s gender assigned at birth.”
Schafer said she initially doubted the policy would be put into action because “our president is a lot of talk… And today, I saw it on my new passport: male.”
“Now, to specify, my gender markers were first changed in my teens, when I first got my driver’s license and then passports following, all have been female since then,” Schafer explained. “Hasn’t really been a problem. However, last year when I was filming in Barcelona, our car got broken into and my bag got stolen and inside of that was my passport which was supposed to last me up until my 30s.
“So I got an emergency passport, which was very simple at the time. It’s basically just a copy of my old passport but temporary and only supposed to be used within the year. So as soon as I got back to the States, I had to get this fixed and get it replaced with a real, proper passport, which I went to the Federal Passport Agency today in L.A. and did. 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, I put female, and when it was picked up today and I opened it up, they had changed the marker to male.”
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Schafer insisted that she was not trying to “create drama or receive consolation” but because it’s worth highlighting “the reality of the situation, in that it is actually happening. And I was shocked, because I don’t know, I just didn’t think it was actually going to happen.”
She continued: “I never had my birth certificate changed, so this has led me to believe that I think the agencies who are in charge of passports and this sort of thing are now required to cross reference birth certificates or, I don’t know exactly what changed as far as the processing goes, but this is the first time this has happened to me since I changed my gender marker.
“We’re coming up on a decade now, or something. And I do believe it is a direct result of the administration our country is currently operating under. And I guess I’m just sort of scared of the way this stuff slowly gets implemented.”
Schafer went on to say that she doesn’t “give a fuck that they put an M on my passport,” but acknowledged that the policy would likely lead to difficulties for trans people when needing to use their passport.
“It does make life a little harder,” she said. “Personally, I mean I haven’t tested it out yet, I’ll find out next week when I have to travel abroad with my new passport, but I’m pretty sure 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. And this is just my personal circumstance, and thinking about other trans women who this might also be happening to, or other trans people, the list only gets longer as far as the intricacies that come along with the difficulty that this brings into real life shit.”
“Trans people are beautiful,” Schafer concluded. “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. I don’t really have an answer on what to do about this but I feel it was important to share. This is real. So um yeah, fuck.”
Schafer is set to reprise her role as Jules in the upcoming third season of Euphoria, which recently began production after several delays.