‘Euphoria”s Hunter Schafer ‘Shocked’ Her New Passport Has Been Misgendered Under Trump Policy

Transgender actress Hunter Schafer says for the first time, the sex listed on her passport reads male instead of female, following President Donald Trump’s executive order.

In a candid TikTok video uploaded on Friday, Feb. 21, the Euphoria star, 26, detailed the “harsh realities” she experienced while getting a new passport after hers was stolen.

She referenced one of the executive orders Trump signed on Jan. 20, his first day in office. The order declared that the United States would “recognize two sexes, male and female,” and “these sexes are not changeable.” It added that documents like passports and visas must “accurately reflect the holder’s sex.”

Schafer said in her video that the Bureau of Consular Affairs has frozen passport applications and renewals that request for a sex other than the one assigned at birth to be listed. The government agency states on its website: “We will only issue passports with an M or F sex marker that match the customer’s biological sex at birth.”

In her eight-minute clip, Schafer said she believed Trump was “all talk,” so she initially didn’t think anything of the executive order. However, after receiving her new passport, she noted her sex was marked as M for male. Schafer noted that all forms of her identification have been marked F for female since she was a teenager, dating back to when she first got her driver’s license.

The actress had to request a new passport after hers was stolen while filming in Barcelona last year, she recalled. She said she went to a federal passport agency in Los Angeles to get a new passport and went through the process as she had in the past, which included checking off female as her sex.

“When [my passport] was picked up today and I opened it up, they had changed the marker to male,” she said. “I was shocked. I just didn’t think it was actually going to happen.”

She “acknowledge[d]” her “privilege” as a White, celebrity trans woman, pointing out that the gender marker change “still happened” to her.

“I don’t know exactly what changed as far as the processing goes,” Schafer continued. “This is the first time this has happened to me since I changed my gender marker, we’re coming up on a decade now. I do believe it is a direct result of the administration our country is currently operating under.”

Schafer told her followers she’s “scared” of how these types of policies will be implemented. “There’s a lot of talk and then these things start happening and we start to normalize the circumstances we’re under. I just feel like it’s important to share that it’s not just talk, this is real and it’s happening.”

“I don’t give a f— that they put an M on my passport,” Schafer added. “It doesn’t change anything about me or my transness. However, it does make life a little harder.”

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She said she’ll be traveling abroad with her new passport for the first time next week and is concerned she’ll have to “out myself” to customs and border patrol agents “much more often than I would like to or is even necessary.”

Schafer empathized with others in the transgender community who may be experiencing the same thing now or will in the future.

She ended with a message of support: “Trans people are beautiful. We are never going to stop existing, I’m never gonna stop being trans. A letter on a passport can’t change that and f— 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.”