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Hunter Schafer spoke out after the gender on her passport was changed due to President Donald Trump‘s newly implemented policies. The 26-year-old Euphoria actress is trans and said that her official documents have marked her as female since she was a teen. However, she had to have her passport renewed after it was stolen. When she got it back, the gender had been changed to male, likely as a result of an executive order that the president passed that declared there were only two genders. Describing the situation as a “harsh reality check,” she addressed the change and what she learned. Keep reading to find out more… In a video on her TikTok story, Hunter noted that passport applications for trans people had been paused as a result of the executive order, which she thought would likely not be taken seriously. “My initial reaction to this – because our president is a lot of talk – was like, I’ll believe it when I see. And today, I saw it,” she said, holding up her new passport. Hunter said that she filled out her passport information as she normally would and marked that she was female. Her information was not correct when it was returned. “I never had my birth certificate changed so this has led me to believe … the agencies who are in charge of passports and this sort of thing are now required to cross-reference birth certificates or, I don’t know exactly what changed as far as the processing goes. But this is the first time this has happened to me since I changed my gender marker. We’re coming up on a decade now,” she said. The actress added that she wasn’t trying to spread fear, saying, “I do think it’s worth posting to note the reality of the situation and that it’s actually happening.” “I do believe it is a direct result of the administration our country is currently operating under,” Hunter said. “There’s a lot of talk and then things start happening and we start to normalize the circumstances we’re under. And I just feel like it’s important to share that it’s not just talk. That this is real and it’s happening and no one – no matter their circumstance, no matter how wealthy or white or pretty or whatever – is excluded. She added that she didn’t “give a f-ck that they put an ‘M’ on my passport.” However, she said that it would likely lead to more conversations when traveling. “I mean I haven’t tested it out yet; I’ll found out next week when I have to travel abroad with my new passport, but I’m pretty sure it’s going to come along with having to out myself to like border patrol agents and that whole gig much more often than I would like to or is really necessary.” Hunter concluded, saying, “Trans people are beautiful.” “We are never going to stop existing, I am never going to stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that. And f-ck this administration. I don’t really have an answer on what to do about this but I feel it was important to share. This is real. So um yeah, f-ck.” Another celebrity recently explained why he supported Donald even if it did hurt his career.
