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.

  • gift_of_gab@lemmy.world
    11·
    12 hours ago

    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?

    • Jarix@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 hours ago

      Because they did issue a fully authorized passport… Even with the wrong information, the government has issues it for them to be able to travel

      • gift_of_gab@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Because they did issue a fully authorized passport… Even with the wrong information, the government has issues it for them to be able to travel

        And because the information is inaccurate, it’s pretty likely to not work as a passport.

      • gift_of_gab@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 hour ago

        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.