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.
So, I just found out that Hunter Schafer is trans. Never guessed. Good for her.
I thought the executive order states ‘at conception’, so everyone’s female now. 🤷
Wait, does this mean I need a second passport as a chimera
“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.
100%
there are people still arguing that trump will be stopped by the courts
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
he lack of pushback from anyone else in power
The people are in power. The elected officials are there at your will. They only have power because you give it to them to work on your behalf. Now the time has come that they’re not doing that. At all. The people need to reclaim that power and use it themselves. It’s time for mass protests and marches and strikes.
The longer you wait the more rights you’ll lose and the more difficult it will be.
Where are all the 2nd amendment fans who are supposed to resist a tyrannical government with their guns??? This is your time to shine!!
I hope everyone feels safer now, and finds their eggs more affordable. Good old small government and freedom.
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?
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.
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.
Not as many problems as traveling without one.
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.
Will that change? Highly likely. Soon? Probably.
But there are a not insignificant number of people who only recently decided it’s no longer safe, applied for passports, made plans to leave, and saw recent stories about passports not being issued. This type of scare mongering does not help them, and can be actively harmful to their mental health and well-being.
Edit: Obviously the longer they stay, the higher the chance this changes.
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?
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
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.
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.
