US trans actress Hunter Schafer, known for HBO hit show “Euphoria,” has said her passport gender marker was changed to male, slamming the Trump administration which has demonized any recognition of gender diversity.
Schafer blamed the policies of US President Donald Trump for the modification of her gender — despite having identity documents marked female “coming up on a decade now” — in a TikTok story published Thursday evening and rebroadcast as a video Friday.
“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,” she said, brandishing her passport and explaining she had had to renew the document after it was stolen last year.
Trump in his first days in office declared the country would recognize only two genders — men and women — and has targeted transgender people in a slew…
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