Hunter Schafer describes her “hard reality control” in the middle of the Trump administration. After being inaugurated for its non-sequence second term, January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order thatPartly explained that only two genders will recognize by the United States, male and female assigned at birth.
Schafer, who is a trans woman, has now divided under one 8-minute, 34-second-long TikTok story How the order has already affected her life. The “Euphoria” actress Shared that her passport, which she had recently replaced after her handbag and its contents was stolen in Barcelona when she filmed there in the summer of 2024, now explains that her gender was male.
Schafer shared that she got her gender markers changed when she was a teenager, and since then all her governments issued IDs, including a driver’s license and passport has listed her gender as a female. This new passport, she said, is her first government identification, other than her birth certificate, who lists her as a man.
“I had a bit of a hard reality check today, and I felt it is important to share with the listening,” Schafer said in the video. “I don’t make this post for Fear-Monger, or to create drama, or get comfort, I don’t need it. But I think it’s worth posting to note the reality of the situation and that it happens. I was shocked. I just didn’t think it would actually happen. I want to admit my privilege, not just as a celebrity trans woman who is white. “
She added, “I pass, and it still happened. No one, no matter how rich or white or beautiful or whatever, is excluded. ”
Schafer made it clear that it is not the gender intention of her passport that is the whole question; Rather, it is deletion of her and other transgender identity as a whole.
“I don’t give a fan that they put a ‘m’ on my passport. It doesn’t really change anything about me or my transness, but it makes life a little more difficult, ”she said. “I am pretty sure that it will follow myself to border patrol agents … much more often than I would or really is necessary. And think of other trans women or other transgender people like this may happen. ”
She ended: “We will never stop existing. I will never stop being trans. A letter on a passport cannot change it, fuck this administration. ”
Schafer told us earlier GQ That she do not want to be identified solely by her transitional history. The actress said she has rejected “lots of transrols” for not being TypeCast. “I just don’t want to. I don’t want to talk about it. It is a privilege, but it has been very intentional, ”Schafer said.
She later Added to IndieWire“I mean, that article got a lot of pick-up, so I think the message was sent to a certain degree. I look back at it, and I definitely meant what I said, but also, right now, this, like, ebbs and flows for me all the time. I want to do things about transgender people one day, (but) hopefully, the next time I do a role or something similar, it will be for something that I am part of to do. ”
