Hunter Schafer slams Trump govt after passport gender change

US trans actress Hunter Schafer, known for HBO hit show Euphoria, said in a viral social media video that her passport gender marker has been changed to male, reflecting the gender on her birth certificate.

In an eight-minute TikTok broadside, Schafer slammed the administration of President Donald Trump for forcing through a policy via Executive Order that recognizes only two genders and that defers to birth gender in.

Despite having identity documents, including her passport, marked female "coming up on a decade now," the actress was shocked to discover that the government office she had visited had applied the policy Trump signed.

"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 said, brandishing her passport and explaining she had had to renew the document after it was stolen last year.

Trump in his first days in office declared the country would recognize only two genders — men and women — and has targeted transgender people in a slew of other orders. 

According to the State Department, under an executive order on what the Trump administration calls "Gender Ideology Extremism," the Bureau of Consular Affairs would stop issuing identification documents with an "X" marker for non-binary people.

"We will only issue passports with an M or F sex marker that match the customer's biological sex at birth," the website says.

Schafer said her gender on her birth certificate hasn't been changed to female, leading her to believe 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." 

The shock of seeing her gender marker reverted spurred her to post about it to "note the reality of the situation and that it is actually happening."

Speaking firmly into the camera on her phone, she also expressed that it was scary seeing Trump's increasingly extreme orders now gradually being implemented.

"No one, no matter their circumstance, no matter how wealthy or white or pretty or whatever is excluded. It is real," she said.

Despite her concerns, Schafer was defiant. 

"I don't give a fuck that they put an 'M' on my passport, it doesn't change anything about me or my transness," she said.

Transgender rights have become a hot-button issue in the United States, despite trans people being a small minority of the population.

Republicans hammered Democrats on transgender issues ahead of the 2024 election, capitalizing on a broader culture war over LGBTQ rights.

"We 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," she said.

Watch Schafer's full statement here: