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.

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    I hope everyone feels safer now, and finds their eggs more affordable. Good old small government and freedom.

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      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?!?!

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    4 months ago

    I thought the executive order states ‘at conception’, so everyone’s female now. 🤷

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      Kind of an outdated view of biological development, I think the more accurate modern one is that tissues start out undifferentiated then either default to differentiating to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.

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        4 months ago

        OK thanks I can agree on that, I am not a biologist or very knowledgeable in that field.

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        4 months ago

        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.

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          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.

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      4 months ago

      I don’t think I realized until I was part-way through season 1 of Euphoria. Definitely took at least 3 episodes, maybe 4.

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    4 months ago

    Prior to this news, I had no idea who she was. And now, thanks to all the cowardly conservatives- I’m hoping that like me, others are being made aware of- and have been given additional reason to support the LGBTQ+ more than ever before.

    Let’s do what we can to ensure this shit backfires fabulously in their smug faces.

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    4 months ago

    IMO, we need a bunch of extra manly-looking trans men to protest in women’s restrooms everywhere (if they’re up for it).

    Assigned female at birth, after all…

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    4 months ago

    No one here is pretending that, if you think that’s what i said, let me assure you that you read that wrong