Euphoria star Hunter Schafer has some harsh words for Donald Trump after receiving her new passport: “F--- this administration.”
Schafer, a trans woman, recently received her new passport and was surprised to see that the gender marker had been changed to “M” for male. She showed that passport to the camera as she slammed Trump in a video posted to social media on Friday. “I’m not making this post to fear-monger, or to create drama, or receive consolation, I don’t need it,” she says in the video.
When she saw that her passport had been changed without her knowledge or consent, “I was shocked,” she continues.
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One of the many executive orders Trump signed in his first days in office declared that there are only “two genders” and the federal government would only acknowledge the one assigned at birth. Schafer heard that news but says, “I just didn’t think it was actually going to happen.”
“My initial reaction to this, because our president is a lot of talk, was like, ‘I’ll believe it when I see it,’” Schafer continues. “And today, I saw it on my new passport—male.”
The 26-year-old goes on to share that her gender markers have said female ever since she first transitioned as a teenager. “When I first got my driver’s license and then passport, all have been female since then—hasn’t really been a problem,” she explains. That is, until her passport was stolen and she needed a replacement under Trump’s new administration. “When it was picked up today and I had opened up—they had changed the marker.”
“I don’t give a f--- that they put an ‘M’ on my passport,” she says, since, “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.”
That said, Schafer adds, “But I do think it’s worth posting to sort of note the reality of the situation and that it’s happening.”
“I don’t really have an answer on what to do about this, but I feel it was important to share,” she concludes, because, “We start to normalize the circumstances we’re under. And I feel like it’s important to share that it’s not just ‘talk.’ This is real and it’s happening. No one, no matter their circumstance, no matter how wealthy or white or pretty or whatever, is excluded.”
