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.
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
Kind of an outdated view of biological development, I think the more accurate modern one is that tissues start out undifferentiated then either default to differentiating to female or are triggered to differentiate to male. So if anything everyone’s intersex now.
Thank you! This idea that “everyone starts out female” has been blowing my mind. Roughly 50% of the population is quite explicitly not female at any time and never could be.
I mean, it’s not a huge difference, were talking about early fetal development, the gonads all develop from the same tissue, pretty much every part of the penis and vagina and broader reproductive system maps directly to corresponding similar features. It was just a question of how and when exactly that process takes place.
“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.
Part of the problem is most of these people have the memory of a goldfish. They don’t recollect his first term. If they did, then they would know everything he says is bullshit. If they remembered his first term then his agenda should be obvious.
Stupid people doing stupid things. We live in a world full of dummies and they are ruining the world for everyone else that has a functioning brain.
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.
Totally. People are in power.
The problem is that people are DUMB. Their stupidity is continuously used against them. So even though they are in power, they have no idea how to wield that power and instead their weak minds are manipulated by smart people.
Which ultimately means it’s the smart people who are in power because they are the ones that know how to make moves and change the world. The people are their tool to do so.
It’s like saying a chisel is in power. It’s really the guy using the chisel that’s in power. The chisel is just a tool.
The people are just too dumb to ever be more than a tool.
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?
Maybe freedom for billionaires.
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?
See my comment to the other reply here
