Article 6VK8G Trump is unleashing anti-trans hysteria onto the world | Moira Donegan

Trump is unleashing anti-trans hysteria onto the world | Moira Donegan

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Moira Donegan
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The new administration are targeting trans people because they think they can be bullied without great political pushback

In the video, she sounds exasperated. Hunter Schafer, a 26-year-old actor best known for her roles on the HBO series Euphoria and in the Hunger Games film The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, appeared in an eight-minute video last Friday in which she revealed that due to a Trump administration order, she had been assigned a passport with the gender marker male".

Schafer, who is trans, began living as a girl in her early teens; she has lived as a woman for her entire adult life. In her video, she says that her IDs have been marked female" for just about as long as she has had them. But after her passport was stolen in a car break-in in Barcelona, she has been issued a government identity document that represents a fiction that she is a man. Every time she travels now, she will have to present this document, she will have to account for the discrepancy between what it says about her, and what she clearly is.

Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist

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