Hunter Schafer Says She Was Issued A Passport With A Male Sex Marker, Thanks To Trump Order

Hunter Schafer had “a bit of a harsh reality check” thanks to an upcoming trip.

The “Euphoria” star — who is one of the most prominent transgender women in Hollywood — posted a TikTok story on Friday in which she says her new passport was issued with an ‘M,’ or male, legal sex marker, even though she listed her legal sex as female on her application.

In a roughly eight-minute video, which was also uploaded and shared in full to X, formerly Twitter, the “Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” star, 26, noted that her gender has been listed female on all her government-issued IDs since she applied for a driver’s license as a teenager. She later noted that she never had her gender changed on her birth certificate, however.

The switch in Schafer’s gender marker is likely a result of President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring the government will now only recognize “two sexes, male and female.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told NOTUS in January that the order will not impact passports that were issued prior to Trump taking office. But she also said that any passports issued after Trump signed the order, including those being renewed, will show the marker that reflects a person’s sex assigned at birth.

Schafer said that she recently had to renew her passport because it was stolen while she was working in Barcelona, Spain last year. Schafer said that since it was stolen she was issued a temporary passport, which had a female marker, but it expired. Schafer said she had to renew her actual passport because she’s traveling abroad next week.

“I’m sure most of us remember on, I think, the first day of Trump’s presidency, he signed an executive order to declare only two genders recognized by the state, male and female assigned at birth,” Schafer said in the video.

She appeared to quote a page from Advocates for Trans Equality advising transgender travelers: “The Bureau of Consular Affairs has frozen passport applications requesting a gender marker change or renewals or new applications with a gender marker differing from an applicant’s gender assigned at birth.”

A State Department spokesperson declined to comment on individual passport applications and referred HuffPost to Trump’s executive order.

The “Kinds of Kindness” actor said that she decided to speak out about her experience because she wanted to make others aware of “the reality of the situation, in that it is actually happening,” and not because she wants to “create drama or receive consolation.”

“I was shocked, because, I don’t know, I just didn’t think it was actually going to happen,” she said.

Schafer went on to admit some of the reasons why she initially thought this new policy wouldn’t directly affect her.

“I want to acknowledge my privilege, like not only as a celebrity trans woman who is white, and thin, and can adhere to contemporary beauty standards, and I can participate in all of that, and I ‘pass.’ And it still happened,” Schafer said.

Schafer went on to say that she personally doesn’t “give a fuck that they put a ‘M’ on my passport.”

“It doesn’t change really anything about me or my transness. However, it does make life a little harder,” Schafer said.

She continued, “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.”

Schafer also acknowledged that even though she’s making assumptions about what her personal experience may be like, other trans people may have similar or even more extreme issues while traveling internationally.

“Thinking about other trans women who this might also be happening to, or other trans people,” Schafer said, “the list only gets longer, as far as the intricacies that come along with the difficulty that this brings into real life shit.”

Schafer attempted to conclude her video on a slightly more positive note — though she got in one last jab at Trump.

“Trans people are beautiful,” Schafer said. “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 fuck this administration.”