US trans actress Hunter Schafer slams Trump government after passport gender change

Trans actress Hunter Schafer slams Trump administration for changing her passport gender marker to male.

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 of other orders.

According to the State Department, under an executive order on what the Trump administration calls "Gender Ideology Extremism," the Bureau of Consular Affairs would stop issuing identification documents with an "X" marker for non-binary people.

"We will only issue passports with an M or F sex marker that match the customer's biological sex at birth," the website says.

Schafer said her gender on her birth certificate hasn't been changed to female, leading her to believe that "the agencies who are in charge of passports... are now required to cross reference birth certificates."