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.
No one here is pretending that, if you think that’s what i said, let me assure you that you read that wrong
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.
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.
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.
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Kind of an outdated view of biological development, I think the more accurate modern one is that tissues start out undifferentiated then either default to differentiating to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.
“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.
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.
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
I hope everyone feels safer now, and finds their eggs more affordable. Good old small government and freedom.
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.
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?
See my comment to the other reply here
Having traveled before with someone in that exact situation, yes, there will be harassment and TSA may very well intentionally force you miss your flight and end up waiting to fly standby on the next one. But as of now, you generally do get through, which cannot be said for traveling internationally without any passport at all.
So you were in this exact scenario, TSA prevented the person from flying like we’ve been saying, but then didn’t prevent them from flying on a standby on the next flight?
Colour me skeptical.
Nope, this tracks. Travelling while trans even before the Trump presidency means hastle. Gender markers on passports often mean very little aside from potentially outing passing trans people to asshole agents when they don’t match what you look like.
Normally it looks like variations of this : You go through the body scanner and a guard makes a determination based on basically vibes and pushes one of two buttons, a pink or a blue. If you have boobs and the blue button is pressed or a dick and the pink button is pressed you get flagged as having something “unexpected” on you and then are subjected to a body search during which they might just stick you in a holding place for as long as they feel like while they figure out who to send to perform a rather humiliating discussion about your medical history while your privates are checked over by strangers.
Or, someone just looks at you, looks at your passport flags the sex marker or your photo as a “suspicious error” and pulls you out of line. It’s remarkable how poorly the whole bureaucracy suddenly operates when you don’t immediately fit someone’s exact expectations of what a trans person looks like. Most of the time this just wastes a lot of time as you wait around for someone to have a long ass conversation and they run the papers to check them.
These delays can mean missing a flight but the person who missed the flight could be in a place to sue if they don’t offer a solution hence… Standby flights. So this is more or less just going back to being the old sucky forms of travel discrimination versus an even worse form. The bar is in hell and folk are gunna feel about it based on what the bar was before it was lowered. Whether that’s “oh thank god” or “fucking hell life is shit” is a glass half full/empty reaction. Both are valid.
Trans rights are under attack, maybe let someone be happy if the found something to be happy about, why can’t you let them enjoy it?
And if you think that’s not something to be happy about maybe you need to get a look at what’s going on and reasess how bad it is
Trans rights are under attack, maybe let someone be happy if the found something to be happy about, why can’t you let them enjoy it?
I mean cool appeal to emotion but that isn’t what we were talking about. The government is attacking the rights of people who are trans, including their passports, and pretending they aren’t isn’t helping anyone. When people were under threat from the Nazi’s in the 30’s would it have helped to tell people to just ‘let them be happy’ when the Nazi’s weren’t yet able to put them in camps?
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.
You can’t convince me that limiting people’s travel by causing confusion isn’t a major part of demanding the original gender.
Exactly, even small inconveniences like this are part of the plan. Death by a thousand cuts.
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?
