Model and actress Hunter Schafer said her new passport lists her gender as male despite selecting female while filling out paperwork.

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.

  • Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 days ago

    “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.

    • pyre@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      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.

    • boobs_@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      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