Transgender ‘Euphoria’ Star Hunter Schafer’s Passport Renewed With ‘Male’ Sex Designation Due To Trump Policy: ‘We Are Never Going To Stop Existing’

Hyoju AnFebruary 26, 2025, 2:30 pmNews >

Hunter Schafer is speaking out after receiving a U.S. passport with a male sex marker, despite listing her legal sex as female on her application.

The Euphoria and Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes star shared her experience in an eight-minute TikTok story, which was later posted in full on X. Schafer, 26, explained that she recently renewed her passport after it was stolen in Barcelona last year and was surprised to find the incorrect gender marker.

“I was shocked, because, I don’t know, I just didn’t think it was actually going to happen,” she said in the video.

Schafer attributed the change to a policy shift under President Donald Trump. His administration issued an executive order stating that the U.S. government would only recognize two sexes—male and female—as assigned at birth.

“The Bureau of Consular Affairs has frozen passport applications requesting a gender marker change or renewals or new applications with a gender marker differing from an applicant’s gender assigned at birth,” Schafer said, citing a page from Advocates for Trans Equality.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt previously said that the order would not affect passports issued before Trump took office but confirmed that any renewed passports would reflect a person’s sex assigned at birth.

Schafer noted that while her government-issued IDs, including her driver’s license, have listed her gender as female since she was a teenager, she never officially changed the gender marker on her birth certificate.

Despite the situation, Schafer said she personally isn’t upset about the marker itself but is more concerned about the challenges it will create while traveling.

“It doesn’t change really anything about me or my transness. However, it does make life a little harder,” she explained. “It’s going to come along with having to out myself to border patrol agents and that whole gig, much more often than I would like to or is really necessary.”

She also acknowledged her privilege as a “celebrity trans woman who is white, and thin, and can adhere to contemporary beauty standards,” admitting she initially believed the policy wouldn’t directly impact her.

Schafer concluded her message with a defiant statement.

“Trans people are beautiful,” she said. “We are never going to stop existing. A letter on a passport can’t change that. And f— this administration.”