Transgender actor Hunter Schafer has made a video complaining that the gender marker on his passport has been changed to “male.”
Schafer, a biological male, lost his passport while filming in Spain last year and had to get a new one.
In a video posted to social media, Schafer explained that President Donald Trump had signed an executive order saying the federal government would only recognize two sexes.
The order states, “sexes that are not changeable, and they are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.”
Schafer said he knew about the order, but did not believe anything would actually change.
“I’m not making this post to fear-monger, or to create drama, or receive consolation, I don’t need it,” he said. “But I do think it’s worth posting to sort of note the reality of the situation and that it’s happening. I was shocked. I just didn’t think it was actually going to happen.”
Hunter Schafer reveals that her new passport now lists her sex as male instead of female, following Trump’s instatement:
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Schafer continued, “I want to acknowledge my privilege, not only as a celebrity transwoman who is white […] I pass, and it still happened. […] No one, no matter how wealthy or white or pretty or whatever is excluded. […] I don’t give a f-ck that they put an ‘M’ on my passport.”
“It doesn’t change really anything about me or my transness, however, it does make life a little harder. I’m pretty sure it’s gonna come along with having to out myself to border patrol agents […] much more often than I would like to or is really necessary. And thinking about other trans women or other trans people who this might be happening to.”
