"As a result of this, the Bureau of Consular Affairs has frozen passport applications requesting a gender marker change or renewals or new applications with a gender marker deferring from an applicant's gender assigned at birth.
During his inauguration speech, convicted felon and US President Trump announced that under his leadership, the US Government would only recognise two genders - male and female - and that he would strip trans people of their legal protections in one of his first acts.
Trans actress Hunter Schafer revealed her passport now says she's 'male' after Donald Trump's controversial executive order defining a person’s gender as either male or female based on what was assigned at birth.
In a new eight-minute long video, transgender actress and model Hunter - known for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes - revealed her new passport now has 'M' under the gender marker.
The model said she wasn't sharing her experience to "fear monger, or create drama, or receive consolation" but to share the realities trans people are facing in America - especially those who don’t check the boxes of being a “celebrity trans woman who is white and thin and can adhere to contemporary beauty standards.”.
