Hunter Schafer Says She Received a Male Passport After Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order

Hunter Schafer is speaking out about the realities of Donald Trump’s anti-trans executive order.

On February 21, the 26-year-old trans woman best known for her role in HBO’s hit drama Euphoria revealed that her passport now features a male gender classification directly following Trump’s restrictive executive order recognizing two “immutable” sexes assigned at birth.

“I don’t really post much these days, but I had a bit of a harsh reality check today, and felt like it’s important to share with whoever is listening,” she began her eight-minute TikTok story. According to the actor, she had to apply for a new passport after hers was stolen in Barcelona.

“I had to [replace my passport] one time before. No part of the process was different,” she explained. “I filled everything out just like I normally would. I put female. And when it was picked up today and I opened it up, they had changed the marker to male.”

While Schafer says the switch “doesn’t change really anything about me or my transness,” she wants to raise awareness about the realities transgender people are facing in Trump’s America. Here’s what we know.

Donald Trump signed a sweeping gender-based executive order on January 20.

After declaring that there are “only two genders” in his inaugural speech, Trump signed an expansive executive order that claims to restore “biological truth to the federal government.” The document declares the government only recognizes two sexes, male and female, claiming, “‘Sex’ is not a synonym for and does not include the concept of ‘gender identity.’”

Featuring directives spanning across federal agencies, from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Department of Education, the executive order describes biological sex as “immutable,” which means unable to be changed. In her TikTok story video, Schafer specifically highlights the measure’s effecting government-issued identification documents.

Hunter Schafer shared her video on February 21.

“So I’m sure most of us remember on 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,” she says before quoting the Bureau of Consular Affairs’ official website.

“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,” the website states.

“I do believe it is a direct result of the administration our country is currently operating under,” Schafer said of the change to her passport. “And I guess I’m just sort of scared of the way this stuff slowly gets implemented because things just sort of start happening.”

She continues, “I think, as we’ve seen in historical rises of fascism and this sort of, you know, everything that this new administration kind of represents—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. This is real.”