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
      4·
      6 hours 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.

      • Jarix@lemmy.world
        22·
        2 hours ago

        Trans rights are under attack, maybe let someone be happy if the found something to be happy about, why can’t you let them enjoy it?

        And if you think that’s not something to be happy about maybe you need to get a look at what’s going on and reasess how bad it is

        • gift_of_gab@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 hour ago

          Trans rights are under attack, maybe let someone be happy if the found something to be happy about, why can’t you let them enjoy it?

          I mean cool appeal to emotion but that isn’t what we were talking about. The government is attacking the rights of people who are trans, including their passports, and pretending they aren’t isn’t helping anyone. When people were under threat from the Nazi’s in the 30’s would it have helped to tell people to just ‘let them be happy’ when the Nazi’s weren’t yet able to put them in camps?