5mo ago

Hunter Schafer says passport now lists her gender as male after Trump order

www.cbsnews.com

Summary

Hunter Schafer shared that her newly issued passport incorrectly lists her gender as male, a result of Trump’s executive order requiring federal documents to use sex assigned at birth.

Despite selecting female and having her gender marker changed years ago, the new policy was applied to her application.

Schafer said she wanted to raise awareness rather than cause alarm, emphasizing that trans people will continue to exist regardless of government policies.

“A letter and a passport can't change that,” she said.

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I hope everyone feels safer now, and finds their eggs more affordable. Good old small government and freedom.
- I know, right! All the illegal tranny immigrants sneaking into women's restrooms and stealing our American eggs and replacing them with fentanyl and liberal lies and then claiming it's part of their DEI job description, which, btw, was funded by a fraudulent USAid grant for a left-handed dyslexic lesbian Canadian Eskimo interpretive dance performance art piece featuring the stomping on of unborn babies ripped from their mother's womb immediately after birth!!! Why do they hate us for our freedom?!?!
  
  But now where am I going to get my fentanyl eggs?
- Maybe freedom for billionaires.
- After hearing she was still issued a passport at all? Yes, actually. There are quite a few (trans) people who probably feel a little bit safer than they did yesterday when they thought they were trapped in the country.
  
  A passport does not guarantee travel. Especially not a passport that has an erroneously-indicated gender. The purpose of any ID document is to prove who you are and what you look like; contradictions with that document are going to cause problems when traveling.
  
  After hearing she was still issued a passport at all? Yes, actually. There are quite a few (trans) people who probably feel a little bit safer than they did yesterday when they thought they were trapped in the country.
  How does having the wrong gender on your passport mean you aren't trapped in the country?
"My initial reaction to this, because our president is a lot of talk, was like 'I'll believe it when I see it' … and today I saw it on my new passport," Schafer said."
The disconnect between what American's thought Trump would do and what he and his team repeatedly and unambiguously said he was going to do is genuinely dismaying.
I'm not sure this is quite at a face-eating leopard level of denial of the obvious, but its approaching it.
- For me it was more a belief of what they'd be able to do, not try to do. I had faith in the system to stop certain things but the lack of pushback from anyone else in power despite everything going on right now is proving that believe to be very misguided and naive
  
  he lack of pushback from anyone else in power
  The people are in power. The elected officials are there at your will. They only have power because you give it to them to work on your behalf. Now the time has come that they're not doing that. At all. The people need to reclaim that power and use it themselves. It's time for mass protests and marches and strikes.
  The longer you wait the more rights you'll lose and the more difficult it will be.
- he just says so much bullshit it's hard for people to register all of it as relevant at all. it's part of his trick.
  here's a quick way to differentiate between his lies and true statements: if it's something that benefits you it's a lie. if it's something that's gonna hurt you it's a promise. easy.
  
  Part of the problem is most of these people have the memory of a goldfish. They don’t recollect his first term. If they did, then they would know everything he says is bullshit. If they remembered his first term then his agenda should be obvious.
  Stupid people doing stupid things. We live in a world full of dummies and they are ruining the world for everyone else that has a functioning brain.
- 100%
  there are people still arguing that trump will be stopped by the courts
I thought the executive order states 'at conception', so everyone's female now. 🤷
- Kind of an outdated view of biological development, I think the more accurate modern one is that tissues start out undifferentiated then either default to differentiating to female or are triggered to differentiate to male. So if anything everyone's intersex now.
  
  OK thanks I can agree on that, I am not a biologist or very knowledgeable in that field.
  
  Thank you! This idea that "everyone starts out female" has been blowing my mind. Roughly 50% of the population is quite explicitly not female at any time and never could be.
- Wait, does this mean I need a second passport as a chimera
So, I just found out that Hunter Schafer is trans. Never guessed. Good for her.
- I don't think I realized until I was part-way through season 1 of Euphoria. Definitely took at least 3 episodes, maybe 4.
Prior to this news, I had no idea who she was. And now, thanks to all the cowardly conservatives- I’m hoping that like me, others are being made aware of- and have been given additional reason to support the LGBTQ+ more than ever before.
Let’s do what we can to ensure this shit backfires fabulously in their smug faces.
IMO, we need a bunch of extra manly-looking trans men to protest in women's restrooms everywhere (if they're up for it).
Assigned female at birth, after all...
- I'm game once bathroom laws take effect. I think we need t-shirts that say something like "Trump wants me in the women's bathroom" to really get the point across. Probably gonna get shot, but fuck it.
No one here is pretending that, if you think that's what i said, let me assure you that you read that wrong

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